Emerge Holistic Therapy

Emerge Holistic Therapy Emerge is an energy, touch, movement, and ritual-based therapeutic practice, with the goal of supporting you on your path of healing and transformation.

08/07/2025

Someone recently donated a session with me to anyone who could use it. I was able to offer this session to a client who is working on trusting in the unfolding of life, loosening the grip on old structures and beliefs in order to live in more interconnection and flow. Spiritually/conceptually, this idea of letting go of structures like Capitalism is great - and practically, it requires mutual aid and acts of service in community to be living into Material Magic Beyond Capitalism. I felt the power of someone receiving a gift of support and blessing, at the right moment, from someone they don’t know.

I usually have 1 pro bono client but this month I have 3. I love offering my services and I benefit from having work that feeds me emotionally and spiritually! If you’d like to support this work by offering a donation toward someone’s healing, I welcome this.

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The freeze, flee, fawn, or fight responses can echo through lifetimes (personally & collectively). If your soul experie...
05/16/2025

The freeze, flee, fawn, or fight responses can echo through lifetimes (personally & collectively). If your soul experienced or witnessed a shocking loss or violent act, you may be living out the reverberations. This can look like: chronic anxiety or depression (flee/freeze), living out of integrity to your own values (fawn), being non-committal in your relationships, work, or location (flee), abusing others or committing acts of violence (fight). There’s an initial shock to trauma in which there is not as much choice, as the automatic responses take over. Over time, there is more choice. You may understand within yourself or in the actions of others, whether they are in a reaction state, perhaps a reaction state that lasts a whole lifetime. Shifting back into loving, safe, creative engagement with life is possible.

In My Grandmother’s Hands: racialized trauma and the pathway to mending our hearts and bodies, Author and therapist Resmaa Menakem says “Unhealed trauma acts like a rock thrown into a pond; it causes ripples that move outward, affecting many other bodies over time. After months or years, unhealed trauma can appear to become part of someone’s personality. Over even longer periods of time, as it is passed on and gets compounded through other bodies in a household, it can become a family norm. And if it gets transmitted and compounded through multiple families and generations, it can start to look like culture. But it isn’t culture. It’s a traumatic retention that has lost its context over time. Though without context, it has not lost its power. Traumatic retentions can have profound effect on what we do, think, feel, believe, experience, and find meaningful.”

Here are some practices from Resmaa’s book for supporting the release of old trauma.

05/16/2025

Intact creativity informs development across the lifespan, of relationships, work, sexuality and expression of self. It can be repaired and is worth repairing.

In a partnership where mutuality is present, the other becomes a mirror. You may admire (or feel triggered by) their cr...
05/01/2025

In a partnership where mutuality is present, the other becomes a mirror. You may admire (or feel triggered by) their creativity, their power, their kindness, their loving nature, or whatever it is you appreciate about them. Even if you and your partner are quite different, if you are in mutuality, there is a spiritual equality.

A person might ask themselves, “In what way am i disconnected from my creativity, kindness, power, love, etc.” They need to trust in their worth. Then they can reconnect with these aspects in themself. 

In this way, partners elevate each other, as one person comes to integrate their own creativity, power, kindness, love, or whatever. It may be expressed in a very different way from their partner, but the magic of spiritual partnership is that the other can guide one home to themselves just by being authentic. It’s how two people, or a group harmonize with one another.

05/01/2025

Do you think war is inherent to human society, in the way that some conflict is inherent to human intimacy and relationships?

If so, what do you think comprises ethical or compassionate war? If not, what do you think would move a society beyond war?

I’m sorry if I blocked you.It wasn’t totally conscious. I was protecting myself and my energy. I haven’t been ready to...
04/24/2025

I’m sorry if I blocked you.

It wasn’t totally conscious. I was protecting myself and my energy.

I haven’t been ready to step fully into my work as your guide.

Timing matters.

I’ve been learning and growing.

I’m ready when you are.

I’m making space for ✨two✨ individual eco-counseling clients for a 6 month therapeutic mentorship from July through Dece...
04/01/2025

I’m making space for ✨two✨ individual eco-counseling clients for a 6 month therapeutic mentorship from July through December 2025, with a focus on climate. The intention is deepening/repairing relationship with a specific other-than-human relation to support you to hold fear/uncertainty related to the climate. You would be a good fit if you:
-Your work or activism is related to Climate Justice, or you would like to “do more” to engage with climate issues as a citizen
-You struggle with climate-related anxiety or fear
-You want to connect more directly with nature for guidance
-You’re interested in ritual practices as well as problem-solving

Throughout this mentorship, we will:
-focus on connecting with an other-than-human ally
-process grief or fear
-create offerings and an altar
-cultivate receptivity and intuition
-identify specific guidance for you in your climate work or activism

We will meet twice a month for 1.5 hours in the Brattleboro, VT area, with some of the time spent outdoors. This will be an emergent, custom process will bring magic, beauty, healing, and action to you.

This work is central to my values as a guide and counselor working from an animist perspective. Bridging communication and building relationship with nature is a powerful act of repair and creative resilience! I bring the support of many of my other-than-human relationships and well ancestors to the process.

If you are interested, please submit this Google form (link in comments).

There are three payment options:

Subsidized : $75 per meeting ($150 per month or $900 for the whole mentorship)

At Cost : $150 per meeting ($300 per month or $1800 for the whole mentorship)

Subsidizing : $250 per meeting ($500 per month or $3000 for the whole mentorship)

On Advice-giving in TherapyAdvice-giving is a little taboo in therapeutic spaces. Therapists and facilitators learn to ...
03/18/2025

On Advice-giving in Therapy

Advice-giving is a little taboo in therapeutic spaces. Therapists and facilitators learn to offer non-judgmental listening and reflection. This is so helpful when a person has a need to be heard, understood and cared for.

AND if the need is for guidance, consulting with a trusted Advisor is wise. (Maybe you have an auntie or friend or someone in your life who you know you can count on to tell it to you straight!)

Everyone receives guidance from their own body, emotions, and intuition. But sometimes we need help deciphering this information. It’s my role as a guide to support this process through the use of my own intuition.

I also do not or cannot entirely separate my personal opinion about my clients’ situations. Sometimes clients can benefit from my opinion and I try to discern this. I ask myself: Is it going to be confusing or clarifying for me to contribute my perspective? I take this responsibility seriously and always seek to help people judge situations clearly.

Also, finding the ugliest sweater at the thrift store with your 13 year old daughter and doing a photo shoot is very therapeutic. I’d advise you to try it. (It’s not crocheted, it’s printed polyester 😆!!)

When I told someone recently that part of my counseling might include divination, they said, “Oh cool, like fortune tell...
02/14/2025

When I told someone recently that part of my counseling might include divination, they said, “Oh cool, like fortune telling?”

“Sort of,” I said.

My divination practice is less about telling the future, than about looking deeply into the present. It reveals what’s under the surface or what needs to be addressed. It points to the source of a challenge. And yes, it offers guidance for next steps, but I very much hold this practice as one of Choice and not predestination. Sometimes there is inevitability to an outcome, or something is in motion that will need to come to its natural completion….

Understanding these conditions with compassion and courage can help a person to choose from multiple paths and relate to Reality with more honesty.

01/17/2025

Today’s relationship tip

Move from blame
To curiously tracking cause & effect

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