a bit about emily

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My psychotherapy practice is rooted years of intentional meandering in creative arts, folklore, transpersonal somatics, grief work, and community justice organizing. After being diagnosed with PTSD in my teens, I set my heart to finding compassionate ways to repair trauma that were accessible, impactful, and could be shared in community. This brought me to training in embodiment practices like trauma yoga, birthwork, expressive arts, ritual, ceremony, and ancestral practices in digesting activation (trauma) and building resilience. As I have integrated the difficult parts of my story, I have felt space open up within me to begin to experience my body as a tool for communing with the Sacred. I hope that through our work together, you can begin to access the Sacred through your own senses too. I take my responsibility in this work quite seriously - which is why I believe it should be done with reverent playfulness, curiosity, and a commitment to the joyful disruption of systems which are no longer habitable for us.

In my personal life, I am an artist and musician, a parent, a nature-lover, an Earth-based spiritual practitioner, and a neurodivergent (autistic) nerd who loves all things magic, folklore, and cycles. I'm currently pursuing a second MA in Divinities with a focus on ecstatic states of spiritual union and the sensory body as a tool of divine communication. When I'm not in the office, I'm probably researching spiritual-somatic-ecological practices, reading the biographies of the female saints, engaging in art-making or music producing, thrifting, snuggling and wrestling my friends, or revelling in the wild world with my partner, kiddo and beloved community.​​​​​