I want to be resilient, and I want the world to be soft and gentle
— Nkem Ndefo

About this Work

This somatic and expressive arts healing practice is a therapeutic and supportive resource that can stand on its own or complement other healing paths—such as psychotherapy, talk therapy, mindfulness, spiritual practice, or faith-based communion. Through embodied creativity and connection, this work honors your body-mind-spirit wisdom and invites your innate healing intelligence to lead the way.

As your facilitator, I offer one-on-one sessions, family work, and group sessions for communities or organizations. You can engage in a single session or a series, depending on your goals and capacity. Together, we build a relationship rooted in trust, respect, and care. Our shared space becomes a place to explore complex questions and lived experiences, while also cultivating grounding tools for navigating everyday challenges—and nourishing practices for self- and community-care

Who is this for?

This healing work is for anyone seeking to (re)connect with their body, inner knowing, imagination, and creativity. It is for those who long to explore new ways of being—beyond the limits of dominant systems like capitalism and white supremacy.

My practice is especially attuned to people living in liminal or “in-between” spaces—those who carry layered cultural, racial, gender, and personal identities. I center the experiences of immigrants, members of the 2SLGBTQ+ community, members of neurodiverse communities, and people of the Global Majority* [those of Indigenous, African, Asian, or Latin American descent], who carry both the gifts and the burdens of these identities.

To me, leadership looks like:

  • Visionaries working toward justice and systemic change

  • Parents, aunties, teachers, mentors, and others raising future generations

  • People navigating chronic illness while living full lives in a capitalist world

  • Immigrants and their children carrying cultural memory and responsibility

  • Those who show up with integrity, courage, and care for their communities

I offer this work to community caretakers and quiet revolutionaries—people who move mountains of all sizes each day.

I also work with non-profits and organizations through consulting services, to develop programs and initiatives to find the best systems of holistic support for mental and emotional health for their staff and community members.

Read more about this service here

Your Session

  • At the beginning of each session we check in about what are your goals and expectations

  • We start scanning our physical body, to understand where any discomforts or soothing sensations are. Our bodies carry in them many experiences that we may not be conscious about, it holds all our interactions, and places that we have experienced.

  • Then we explore any natural movement, no matter if they are big or small. We work with our breath, nervous system regulation, locating ourselves in the room, or any other activity that you need to feel settled and present in the space

  • From there it’s all up to what is needed at the moment, we start working with different modalities of art making using simple and everyday objects. We create drawings, stories, movements, spaces to relax in, anything that will allow for you to explore your goals.

  • We end our session by reflecting about your experience and building meaning about how to integrate it into your goals for your healing and life you are building.

Same nonbianary person seating on the floor working on a wooden and paper sculpture, there are different balls of yarn and scissors in front of them on the floor

Services

one-on-one sessions

Online or in-person, this is designated for individuals to process and explore their thoughts, questions, and lived-experiences. It can be a one-time session, or multiple sessions.

60 mins session | Read more

family sessions

Online or in-person, this is an opportunity for family groups of up to four individuals to come together and practice how to build trust, collaboration, loving relationships, and how to be comfortable with challenging circumstances.

90 mins | Read more

community
group sessions

Online or in-person, this is an opportunity for informal groups to grow in their collaboration, gain resources for personal and collective healing, to grieve together, and build more connections.

120 mins | Read more

organizational group sessions

organizational consulting services

Online or in-person, this is an opportunity for non-profit organizations, businesses, or any other formal group to come together for self-care, trust building opportunities, and resource building to create healthy relationships at the personal and collective level

120 mins | Read more

Online or in-person, support for non-profits and organizations to develop programs and initiatives to find the best systems of holistic support for mental and emotional health for their staff and community members.

Time and fees based on needs | Read more