for Trauma and Addiction Recovery, Mental Health Support

PARTS Work, DBR, IPNB, TIST, IFS, Somatics, SSP & Polyvagal, Functional Health, and Intersectional Care

We have a decade+ experience supporting folks recovering from Complex Trauma, including DID and DDNOS or other heavy dissociation trauma. We also support folks through addiction recovery as it relates to trauma. We offer this practice as a CAM (Complementary and Alternative Care) Practice in the State of California and online globally. We also offer holistic/naturopathic level of support. We offer education and mentorship for health professionals. We may collaborate with medical teams per client request and practitioner availability. We are BIPOC, WOC.

What Methodologies We are Trained In or Offering Training for …

  • Internal Family Systems Practitioner Certified (IFS) (Parts Work)

  • Intersectional Decolonizing Mental Health Framework as a Foundation for working through oppression-based trauma (which is most, if not all, traumas theoretically) — in house training and mentorship offered

  • Trauma Professional Matrix — in house training, more info here

  • Psychiatry Redefined Integrative and Functional Mental Health Fellowship Certified (PRCFMP)

  • Trauma Informed Stabilization Treatment Certified (TIST)

  • Deep Brain Re-Orienting Certified (DBR)

  • Safe and Sound Protocol Certified (SSP) and Polyvagal Theory Based Support (PVT) — SSP is NOT a stand-alone service

  • Developmental Neurobiological and Neurodevelopmentally based Processes (NMT, IPNB…)

  • Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy and DARE (Caregiver Bonding aka Attachment Wound Trauma Support)

  • Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome (PTSS) Trained

  • Personality Disordered Presentations Support from a non diagnostic perspective (re: parts work, family systems framework, attachment frameworks, functional and integrative mental health support)

  • various CranioSacral Training (via Upledger Institute), Zero Balancing and Somatic Trauma Based Certifications

  • Brainspotting Trained

  • some Homeopathy and Flower Essences support

  • Addiction Care via Parsing Privilege based Addiction from Oppression Based Coping, Parts Work, Integrative and Functional Lens, Inner Child Work, 12 Step based and non 12 Step based

  • Partners and Couples Work, Mediation and Communications Support Trained (IFS, IFIO, NVC, RLT and Compassionate Mediation Based)

  • Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) Herbology and Principles, Western Herbalism, and Nutrition Support

  • Integrative Support with Various Cultural Frameworks; Certified TCM Health Coach, Yoga and Meditation Practitioner

Non Pathologizing Support For Clients Seeking Help with…

  • ABUSE RECOVERY, Complex Trauma, including folks with PTSD, CPTSD, DID, DDNOS … and undiagnosed traumas

    • Specializing in Support for Adult Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse (CSAS)

      • More than a decade of focused care for Women of Color in Recovery

    • Narcissistic and Institutional/Systemic Trauma

    • Family Systems Trauma

    • Acute Traumas, including from accidents and physical traumas

  • ATTACHMENT WOUNDS, Relational Traumas, Workplace Traumas and Caregiver Based Early Childhood Traumas

  • CHRONIC AND ONGOING TRAUMA, including

    • Traumas from ongoing systemic, political, institutional, family or other contextual pressures

    • Traumas from Environmental Health Exposures

  • CHRONIC HEALTH Related Mental Health Needs

    • e.g. Mental Health support for folks who struggle with e.g. Auto Immune Conditions, Chronic Fatigue, Undiagnosed Low Energy and/or Brain Fogginess, TBI and Post Concussive Syndrome Support, Mold and Mycotoxin Recovery, Lyme and other lingering microbial conditions that result in mental health fatigue and neuropsychiatric challenges

    • Mold and Mycotoxin Recovery Support — mental health edu-coaching and adjunct functional health support

    • TBI, PCS and Injury Recovery Support — mental health edu-coaching and adjunct functional health support

    • some long Covid, Covid Vax effects, and latent viral, parasitic or microbial symptom related care — mental health edu-coaching and some adjunct functional health support; triage support with other health professionals

    • other Functional and Developmental support via distance craniosacral, energy based TCM, and parts work support, dietary, herbal and supplemental education, and/or homeopathics

  • Narcissistic Abuse Trauma Recovery and mental health support through related legal experiences

  • Accident/Injury Recovery Support

  • Ritual Abuse and Mind Control Recovery Adjunct Support

  • Deconstruction of Narcissistic Personality Expressions

  • Class Subjugation/Poverty Persecution Based Trauma Recovery via Intersectional Trauma Recovery Analysis Support and integrated developmental trauma and parts work processing support

  • Propaganda De-grooming and Forensic-based Media Literacy Education via Decolonizing Intersectional Analysis

  • Support with Anxiety, Depression, Rumination, OCD, Low Self Esteem, DID or Dissociation, some Psychosis and Delusional Episode support and other common and uncommon Mental Health Care Needs.

We specialize in work with communities often underserved by mainstream practices. We are able to coordinate with health care professionals as requested and accept referrals often. We offer holistic support. We DO NOT diagnose, prescribe, or read labs. We do offer a holistic approach to care.


What is Intersectional Support (IxFS/IxFMH)?

(this is the fun nerdy stuff in the background) We are Decolonizing Oriented; Anti-Empire, Anti-Colonial Trauma Recovery Practice.

What is Intersectional Support?

  • Simply put, Intersectional Support allows for power to be mapped objectively in trauma recovery, and ensures that actualization flows towards eco-relational liberation rather than a default hegemonic assimilation. Please feel free to ask what all of that means!

Why is Intersectional Support vital to a trauma recovery process?

  • Intersectionality at its core is a highly effective framework for mapping and understanding trauma impact and also trauma recovery

What could this look like in practice?

  • Sometimes it may look like compassionate curiosity to parse power and accountability in a traumatic event or ongoing experience to help someone find that restful place of clarity for the orienting part of the brain

Read more about Intersectional Support here!

Consultation & Mentorship for Integrative Health Professionals

  • Intersectional Health Support, Decolonizing Oriented Praxis, IxFS/IxFMH in-house program — learn more here!

  • Integrative, Functional and Holistic Approach to Trauma, Shock and Addiction Care

  • 14+ years of experience working with complex dissociation and complex health client needs

  • 14+ years experience working with parts work, inner child work, and somatic modalities

  • Consultation offered as one off on request or weekly for a period of time

  • Ongoing weekly Mentorship is available *it is steeped in IxFMH praxis

  • Special Topic Presentations available for Conferences, etc.

  • Group or Multi Clinician Case Consultation available on request

  • Integration of some modern therapeutic trauma frameworks with energy medicine consultation

Please feel free to Schedule a call to learn more about Case Consultation or Mentorship Support

 

We do not diagnose. We can offer complex and chronic trauma recovery support and naturopathic information for holistic care. Our practice is online. We are glad to coordinate support with other licensed health care providers and often work with referrals from licensed health professionals. Please note according to the guidelines set forth by Unyte, we DO NOT offer SSP support as a stand-alone service — it is contraindicated! We do combine SSP with other methodologies when offering it. We are glad to offer educational consultation to certified providers interested to offer SSP. Please feel free to reach out with questions.

photo credit Henry Be via Unsplash

International Law needs to apply to hegemonic leaders, and not be denied or distorted to harm the people they exploit! STOP STARVING GAZANS and ERASING THE WEST BANK. STOP STARVING and LOOTING SUDAN! STOP ANTAGONIZING HAITI! STOP LOOTING and EXPLOITING people in THE CONGO!…

We are bringing back our running updates on current events as it relates to trauma recovery. This section is under construction.

Woman of Color owned practice. We are an Integrative, Functional, Developmental (including Parts (IFS, TIST and other) work), Decolonizing — Intersectional, Somatic and CranioSacral, Neuroscience-Based (including DBR, Polyvagal Support and SSP), Holistic and Naturopathic Mental Health Practice; over 14 years of Complex Mental Health and Trauma Presentation Care and Support

We are an Intersectional Feminist based practice.

BOOT OFF OF OUR BODIES and LANDS UPDATES!

More Anti-Imperial Education! Throw away your propaganda, here's some direct Korean history! link here Acknowledging Nodutdol and Amandaland for the updates!

Over 18,000 children in Gaza are at the brink of death from US-Israel Government imposed months of Starvation. STOP the Siege and Occupation. Dignity for all people, no more occupation of Palestinians! Palestine, pre-occupation times, was always a multi-theocratic (Muslims, Jews, Christians, secular thinkers and others living side by side), intellectual and creative land in coastal West Asia, home to Palestinians of all faiths. We stand with Palestinian Civilians who are calling for their dignity to be respected and Jews saying: NOT IN OUR NAME to any and all forms of occupation, continued home and land theft, ethnic cleansing, genocide, funding and supporting of these activities -- END any and all forms of exceptionalism and supremacy!

We demand the same in Kashmir. No austerity politics. Stop the occupation of Kashmiri, Dalit and Indigenous bodies and land by the Hindutva.

Cyprus what? How did that take over start: link here to Stoker's interview with Elina Xenophontos, covering Golden Visas, military outposts...and more. Jewish-British co-founder of Declassified UK and author of the Racket, Matt Kennard also covers the colonial presence of British military in Cyprus. 

Edu-coaching favorite, Dr. Nick Estes helps un-psyop education, a link to the history and a breakdown of 47's proposed space future regarding Manifest Destiny, link here.

We will post an update re: Palantir surveillance activities and “Freedom Cities” soon. 

Wealth Gap surges sending more Americans to eek out livings in slum conditions, off-grid in the woods, in vehicles, in tents, on benches, on the ground...while being pathologized and penalized by the very government and oligarchs that have been facilitating this looting of its marginalized displaced and impoverished settlers. Intentional starvation in the US continues for many children, while investment in foreign countries and their health systems and political, investor and corporate self enrichment from ecocidal and massively lethal bombings, displacement, deprivation and sanctioning continues! In addition, more than a quintillion in wealth and assets still never circulates to the global public and stagnates with the wealthiest. What can we do? Demand economic equity: end the wealth gap, return to collaborative wealth distribution and community investments, demand that stagnated money gets put into projects for the public good; end land theft, engage with indigenous and descendants of trafficked peoples in reparations for stolen land, wealth and cultural artifact and practices. Don’t feel entitled to stay somewhere if you are a descendant of a ruthless settler, work towards the restoration of dignity for the natives and call out the moral indigence of those who refuse to understand the situation and address it head on. Don't vote for self enriching people who have no record of caring more than a political crumbs-worth! Notice that our struggles are not separate. Join community advocacy groups. Call for the dismantling of the interwebbed military, pharma, state-propaganda, global south exploitative and necro-investment industrial complexes. Call for billionaire and multimillionaire tiered taxation and caps with penalties on income and asset growth that actually restores a global working class, and end violent sanctions that stop other countries from functioning day to day because the US wants to debilitate and extract, but uses American Lib-Washing and calling systems that advocate for fair wages and shared wealth "the boogeyman" aka empty McCarthyism, as a cover up -- do you really not want clean train stations, healthy publicly accessible water and public libraries? Lib washing tells you capitalist extortion is freedom and is worth the price of filth, sickness and deprivation and right-wing politics just declares elite entitlement and elite worship as a moral imperative and false proxy for self dignity. Choose whatever system you believe in, but check that it has substance and not a bunch of empty language that points to “peace” and “love” with a whole bunch of nothing and/or systemic abuse delivered to the true vulnerable. Call for the end of White Supremacy and Exceptionalism! Call for the end of empty virtue signaling and demand substantive care and action! Call for billionaires and multi-millionaires to have their income and wealth redistributed by intercession of state, federal and international law. Call for billionaire and millionaire earners to be put on a publicly monitored registry that shows where there income is coming from and what it ultimately gets funneled into supporting -- does it support endless wars and no health care -- demand that information and then demand accountability! Don't put rapists and genociders/genocide enablers in office -- protest your political party if it tells you that this is your best choice! Demand primaries and audit the committees that choose candidates! Don’t vote for morally depraved candidate committee selection members. Support and vote for a third party and demand rank-choice voting! Call for the end of families being separated. Call for the end of colonial settlerism and empire depravity worldwide and the beginning of an era of reparations! Call for the US to stop experimenting with food and pesticides banned in other countries as known toxins and carcinogens on the American public! Call for land, air and water to stop being poisoned! Call for the cleanup of Superfund sites. Notice and advocate against the government labeling indigenous land care advocates as eco-terrorists, because the US government and corporate elite wants to exploit without push back and accountability. Call for the end of privately funded academic institutions -- demand that learning, land, wealth and culture never be colonized. Even if you disagree, stand for the dignity of all people and reclaim the intellectual and moral freedom to end learned helplessness and dependency on or fealty to toxic systems and elitist insanity. 

ON ABUSIVE PEOPLE AND SYSTEMS

Narcissistic Individuals and groups lack the self reflection and compassion to stop themselves when committing harmful acts. Narcissism stops people from being honest about the harm they are inflicting. Whether it is in the form of Colonial Settlerism or Imperialism, brutal Sanctions and other disruptions imposed by hegemonic powers, making the cost of living incompatible with livable wages for the majority, demeaning forms of health care that are not exploitative, slum lording, workplace or school place bullying, or malignant family dynamics…it is dangerous! It takes a majority, if not all bystanders being engaged to stop it. These violences don’t stop themselves, they just grow and consume more targets. If enough people don’t stand up as bystanders vs. trying to dance out of the target zone (enablers), the problem just snowballs and the only people left are narcissists and spineless opportunists.

That’s why actual trauma care requires an understanding of power dynamics and a willingness to put the brakes on violence.

STOP STARVING GAZA. Who is stopping the flotillas? Who is controlling the aide corridors? Who has bombed record numbers of health care workers and people supplying food there? It doesn’t start with the letter “H.” We all witness who is stopping the aide. We all witness the Israel-NATO Nations expansionist and exploitative venture in the region.

Bullies love to deflect blame and play the victim for being called into healthy accountability. They will blame the people being occupied, which is ludicrous — they’re not starving themselves.

WHY ARE HEGEMONIC POWERS and THEIR BUDDIES AFTER PALESTINE, SUDAN, CONGO, BURKINA FASO… the global south? Naivete says: It can’t be to loot them for cheap goods and trafficked labor, so that hegemonic entities can have more multi-billionaires and median wealth class gadgets programmed for planned obsolescence around, could it? Learned helplessness says, ignore the red flag and imagine they care, so that the imagination can give one a false sense of safety to keep slow walking to the edge of the matrix where reality sets in and there is no more privilege safety net underneath.

Some pro-capitalist economists might say, we need an economy that bolsters our strongest earners and wealth hoarders to insure national endurance, and weed out the weak earners and wealth accumulators — that’s just survival of the economic fittest for the good of those who survive.

A survey of the hegemonic violence against the global south, Irish and Turtle Island Natives for the past hundreds of years demonstrates this looting of the vulnerable for the sustenance of a predatory elite class is the enduring value and principle of these Imperial ventures. In fact, it’s not the empty cries of “democracy” they say they are upholding or exporting, but rather the ravaging done underneath it via a veiled autocracy, that is at the helm, leaves an imprint and endures. For those who care about democracy, demand it and know that it also takes active self-education to dismantle or side step autocratic propaganda and manipulation — that is part of life since the beginning of time. The idolatry of privilege is a delusional playground for the conniving that old philosophies and religions warned against.

Democratic and equitable access may be a natural value when living on the earth, and it takes moral, embodied and intellectual discipline to maintain when people and systems give into fears and insecurity and move to control and subjugate vs understand and collaborate in the face of meeting desires and fulfilling needs. When uprooting becomes the baseline, additional effort to come back to an eco-based democracy is required.