FLOURISH as the creative, capable, and loving being you already are.
My work integrates psychotherapeutic frameworks with somatic skill building supporting you to embody your values and connect to purpose. Nourishment-based and trauma-informed sessions support you to:
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Process and repattern emotional triggers
Work with the embodied child-state
Process loss and grief
Process the impacts of privilege and oppression
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Deepen self-awareness and self-compassion
Use touch and attention to build tolerance and capacity
Enhance your breath and parasympathetic response
Connect to joy and pleasure
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Reconnect to Self energy
Improve self-esteem
Learn compassionate boundary-setting
Break co-dependent patterns
Heal from burnout
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Liberate yourself from embodied shame
Explore pleasure
Repattern early attachment wounds
Communicate more effectively
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Resolve creative blocks
Connect to your intuition and vision
Free your voice and build confidence
Integrate creativity into more (all!) aspects of your life
“Rachael’s steady attention and compassion guided me toward deeper observation of my body’s wisdom and a sense of myself as whole, coherent, and free.”
We will work actively and imaginatively, using movement, voice, breath, and touch to awaken curiosity and engage your full being.
I offer experiential and hands-on techniques responsive to your needs. Sessions focus on expressive and somatic exploration, integrating contemplative and creative inquiry with practical skill building that you can bring into your everyday life.
Sessions are informed by my training in Hakomi Mindfulness-Based Somatic Psychotherapy, Body-Mind Coaching, Somatic EMDR, Breathwork, Attachment Theory, Relational healing, Family Systems/ Parts work, Expressive Arts, Contemporary dance and performance (improvisation, contemplative movement, release technique), Developmental movement and experiential anatomy (Feldenkrais, Body-Mind Centering), Pilates, Massage Therapy, Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction, Qi Gong.
Align personal growth with collective transformation. My approach is informed by a critical understanding of oppression and is aligned with liberatory practices.
I bring an awareness of social location, white supremacy, and systemic oppression to my practice. I work with an anti-colonial and anti-capitalist lens to examine how dominant structures of power live inside us, and how we are psychosocially conditioned to replicate patterns of separation and subjugation. Together, we will work on interrupting internalized patterns of wounding and fragmentation in order to embody a path toward collective freedom.
“An embodied human system won’t tolerate injustice.”