Coaching and/OR KAP Consultation
I support therapists, coaches, and other wellness practitioners in healing trades. I have always worked mostly with my professional peers as clients and over time realized that many who I supported also craved this path that I was on— to burst out of the confines of being stereotypically professional or a traditional practitioner.
So, I began coaching and consulting in addition to providing psychotherapy and bringing clients into their own deep spiritual identity and what it means to run clean energy as a practitioner, rather than the surface-level boundaries taught in grad school or in community work. I have been fortunate to have been led by my own amazing mentors and enjoy mentoring others because there is a lack of guidance out there for this way of holding space for others. I found that either people were too in their heads or too in the ether.
I offer a grounded support for spiritual exploration as a wellness practitioner. I am informed by 20 years in the mental health field, 10 of which were working in community agencies and understanding the strict boundaries that exist and have existed since the start of this field. In the coaching or consulting role, the way I create a bridge between the Earth and the Ether is through teaching Shamanic practices and Energy Work in a way that honors certain practicalities and ethics held in the more traditional clinical world. I can speak both languages and appreciate both view points, while finding a place to hold space that rests somewhere in the center to honor the flexibility of these creative arts.
KAP Consultation
I have been practicing professionally as a Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapist for over 5 years, starting in February of 2019. In 2019, I participated in 1:1 psychedelic mentorship with Cody Wiggs, LPC (deceased). From 2019-2023 I trained in a group facilitation apprenticeship in a medicine circle with other therapists trained in psychedelic work. I went through formal training and certification in Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP), Psychedelic Medicine, and Integration through the Psychedelic Research and Training Institute (PRATI) in 2020. I continue in regular consultation with colleagues and am gearing up to offer KAP groups in addition to 1:1 sessions. I mentor other clinicians in starting their Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy practices. I blend the practicality of structuring a business and building programming with the creative force of supporting each person individually in the gifts they have to uniquely offer. I can speak to the nuances that exist in this burgeoning field through my varied experiences. I find it is important how we enter into our interactions not only with clients but also with our business creation as a whole. This type of service requires a different space holding in all aspects. I offer 60 or 90 minute 1:1 video consultations. If you are in the Los Angeles area, we can schedule an in-person meeting as well.10+ paperwork templates and other handouts can be added-on if desired, but are an a la carte item to reduce unnecessary costs if you prefer to source them on your own. Some of the paperwork offerings include: Sample intake, medicine-specific consent, release for unsecure transmissions of PHI, KAP credit card authorization, Good Faith Estimate specific to KAP, Collateral Disclosure, Informational Handouts to Prepare a Client for KAP, Prep Questionnaires, and Basic and Extended Integration materials. coaching
I approach coaching from a different lens and I hope you appreciate my offering. My goal is to detach the work we do from being focused on the income we make and the false identity this supports. I seek to help people step out of the performative way we are taught to build a business and to be led instead by inspiration. Your business is an expression of YOU, not the hollow curation of marketing and branding and letters behind your name. If you are focused only on selling and launching or keeping clients that aren't a fit due to fear rather than producing an outflow of love as your offering, current and potential clients will feel it and your work will eventually stagnate. I also focus on helping people get clear on their worth. I enjoy helping people create or re-create their businesses by connecting to their own deep sense of worthiness, love, wisdom, and truth that wants to be uniquely expressed through them. Just because you detach from an outcome driven focus and on hitting a certain number doesn't mean your time and what you have to offer aren't of monetary value. Everything is an energetic exchange and to remain in right relationship if you empty your bucket, whomever is across from you needs to help fill it back up. I use the cycles of the Moon as a structure for our work together so that you are in constant flow and re-attunement to what is present throughout the month. I utilize the metaphor of sound to help you tune into your day-to-day energetic vibration so you remain in alignment in between Moon cycles. And lastly, I draw inspiration from the 5 Elements and Seasons to bring balance and harmony in all that you do versus framing internal balance in the trendy but gendered language of the masculine and feminine.A Note to Therapists, Coaches, & WEllness practitioners.
Therapists, Coaches, and Wellness Practitioners have a truth problem.
How are you lying to keep the peace rather than shining a light on what is real?
Lying is giving up on others and not trusting in their capacity to expand. That is fair to no one and is a disservice to us all.
Being in our own wild presence, unconditional love, and truth is a practice. And if we don’t tell the truth who will? Our roles have been distorted and diluted over time to join with clients in their mistruths. We have been taught to craft beautiful language so as not to offend and we think this is love. That frequency keeps people sick and we often absorb the energy of that vibration, too.
We are meant to to burst out of that old paradigm that is based in fear. Fear of hurting someone or absorbing their reactions, fear of losing a client or the income they bring, fear of not getting what you want in your work unless you give away all the structure and boundares you identified you needed.We aren’t meant to rescue people from their reactions to us, others, or themselves. We are meant to stop walking down the mountain to those that won't take the effort to climb on up to meet us and enjoy the view and new perspective it brings. We are meant to support others into their own truth and alignment and out of fear. We are meant to offer a love that is willing to step into the mess and guide people toward other options. We are meant to honor the value of our wisdom and draw clients into resonance with us, not the other way around. I invite you to come back to the playful creativity of your own wholeness and wisdom and join a new paradigm of showing up for yourself and others.