What I’d love every client to know....

I’d love for you to know that our time will be insightful and impactful and comforting and interesting and eye-opening and instructional, and yet, please know that the most transformative moments of our work together will take place outside of our session times. They’ll take place while you endeavor to integrate the themes and invitations from our work into the rhythms of your day-to-day life. 

I’d love for you to know that every single session we have together has the potential to look different than any other session, and may look different than the care I provide other clients due to the diversity of modalities I trust--modalities that resonate with some clients and not with others. I will pivot often to shape the work that we do together based on what is resonating with you most in the moment, what you've asked for, and what seems to align most with the goals you have, all in partnership with my own instincts. 

I’d love for you to know that I thought long and hard about becoming a licensed clinical therapist, but no, I'm not one. Despite working in a state psychiatric hospital in undergrad, in the psychiatric emergency room during grad school, and finding myself in therapeutic spaces regularly where I'm the only person in the room who’s not a licensed psychologist, I've made the deliberate choice to remain within my scope of practice as a mental health coach, breathwork practitioner, nutrition & wellness educator, and spiritual collaborator. This choice affords us both a level of flexibility and freedom in how our work unfolds, and ensures that I stay values-aligned as I shape my unique training to support you. 

I’d love for you to know that, due to my hybrid training path and lifetime of experiential education, my work is often mistaken for therapy. I've realized over the years that many of my clients aren't quite sure what the difference is between a mental health coach and a therapist, especially as the field of coaching is fledgling, and breathwork and psychospiritual facilitation is even more fringe. I’d love for you to know that licensed therapy is not the only way to care for your mental health or the mind-body-spirit continuum, and you can trust yourself to use the modalities that feel the most aligned for you. 

I’d love, love, love for you to know that you can trust yourself to use the modalities that feel the most aligned for you. 

I’d love for you to know that I’m not a clinical nutritionist. I have a Master of Science in Integrative Nutrition and spent some time during the early part of my career focusing specifically on nutrition consultations, but the runway for fulfillment was short for me in that work. What does this mean for you? It means I won’t make you a meal plan or write you a supplement recommendation list. I will hold space for exploring your cravings, your complex relationship with food, the parts of you that are activated underneath the day-to-day routines of nourishment, and how to manifest your visions around nutrition and wellness.

I’d love for you to know that “psychospiritual wellness care” is only the imperfect phrase used to describe our work together, but more importantly, please know that this isn’t a new concept, nor is it a model that I uniquely designed…not really. It's mind-body-spirit medicine, and it’s woven throughout human history in one form or another. I have my own spin, with complementary models woven together, but this approach to wellness care belongs to all of us. 

I’d love for you to know that when I say I work on a sliding scale, I really mean it. You can trust me to set rates that enable me to afford my life as a mother living in the DC area and you can trust me to have space in my practice each month to provide some number of reduced cost sessions.

I’d love for you to know that if you’re coming into this work with anxiety about what you're paying--feeling like you're spending more than you have to give, or worrying that I've given you a reduced rate that doesn’t honor my value--those anxieties will be rippling under the surface of our work. I’d love for you to know that our work will flow best if there's a foundation of trust here, that we can be in partnership together in financially wise and sound ways for both of us, and that there are paths available for us to collaborate openly around this (cue “collective care for healing money trauma!”).

I’d love for you to know that I'm content with us only working together a few times, or staying in this collaboration for years; meeting every week, or only touching in when you need it. As I said, I trust you. I trust that you know what kind of care you need. I trust that even if you don't feel like you know, there's something deeper guiding you along your healing journey, and whether you trust that or not, **I do**. I invite you into collaboration in whatever way it makes sense for you, at whatever time.

Lastly, I’d love for you to know that I won’t fix you, because you’re not broken, and I won’t heal you, because you are the agent of your own healing. I’ll meet your inner parts right where they are with support and skill-building that's tailored uniquely to you. Together we'll walk you into the next season of your life. Amidst everything you’re facing and holding and hoping for, psychospiritual wellness care is poised to be of service, and so am I.
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