I use all parts of myself in my therapy work. My work is guided by the felt wisdom of my body, my intuition, my intellect, and my connection to community and ancestors. I invite the use of metaphor, dreams, imagery, somatic awareness as a way to access unconscious truths that lie beyond our conscious mind. These are powerful communications that can be honored and understood if given time and space. And in doing so, a path opens to cultivating a partnership with our unconscious. We are working to not just have an understanding of ourselves but a sense of home within ourselves. Instead of experiencing the world and our emotions as something we react to, forces that control us, we are able to develop inner mastery and create our world.

I give special attention in my work to the way systemic and collective experiences affect us all. These include experiences pertaining to race and gender. I hold in awareness these unconscious collective forces that are at play in the way I conceptualize clients’ experiences, whether we talk about them explicitly or not. The exploration of these forces in my own life has been a critical part of my growth, and it informs my work with others. For example, I’ve spent time in the exploration of the various layers of what it’s like to be an Indian woman in the world. I’ve also spent time in pursuit of understanding how the collective forces of patriarchy and White Supremacy exist within me and in all of us, regardless of our gender or race. These are complex issues that deserve a lot of space and time to examine so we can embrace who we are, explore diversity, and understand how we want to interact with those around us and these difficult issues in the larger world. Therapy is one format in which to engage in this exploration.

If you’re interested in complex and layered issues within yourself and the world around you that don’t have easy, obvious solutions, we might work well together.