This workshop is for people who have done peer counseling or co-counseling before. Level 2 focuses on “frozen needs,” which refers to early unmet needs that tend to unconsciously fuel our deepest relational patterns. During the 5-session workshop, we explore what frozen needs are, and create a space to have feelings and insights about them. Our focus is on discharging emotions through our body and getting the support we need to shift our blocks to closeness with other people. 



Requirement: Please make sure you have learned and practiced peer counseling/co-counseling basics before taking this workshop and have integrated them into your healing process.



Peer Counseling (also known as co-counseling) is a listening/support modality that is practiced by peers to help heal, break isolation, find natural solutions to problems, and feel a sense of belonging. In this 6-session workshop, you learn the basics of holding space for each other, being heard, seen, and held with empathy. Together, we learn how to create a sustainable and enlivened space that can become a regular practice in your life. 

If you are craving an emotional support practice that can sustain you through the longterm, this class is for you. This practice empowers ongoing care that is peer to peer, and becomes a ground for the ongoing unpacking of stuck patterns. Peer Counseling is a transformative practice of deep listening and mutual support that breaks isolation, offers skills in listening, emotional release, and community trust building. In this course, you will learn the basics of holding space for each other, being heard, seen, and held with empathy.

You will learn to create sustainable and enlivened peer counseling relationships that become a regular practice in your life.

Level 1 workshop is an introduction to the peer counseling/co-counseling practice and is a prerequisite to any other peer counseling workshops.

This 5-session creative writing group is for survivors of childhood sexual abuse. I offer this in a world where our voices are often disbelieved, suppressed, dismissed, and ignored. Here, your voice, feelings, and stories are encouraged to spill onto the page- in the company of others who are holding a sacred, creative space.  

I support you to find your writing voice, and channel your pain and victories into art-making. Writing can be transformational when we are giving permission to say the ugly thing, to not hold back, to speak the unspeakable, to take credit, and to feel our unbroken spirits at the core of it all. 

I have been a trauma therapist working with survivors for 28 years. I am also an artist who has found empowerment and deep healing by using creativity to heal my trauma. I am so excited to be together, to spread our wings in the presence of our collective courage. There will be guidelines and confidentiality in place, and clarity of facilitation in keeping clear time structures, sharing our work, and giving feedback. 

Have you been wanting to dive into parts work? Do you feel like you are unconsciously run by inner parts and you need to get a handle on it? Join me for an afternoon of exploring and understanding our inner parts! In this workshop, I will guide you to engage with your Loving Adult, Inner Child, and Wounded Children.

During times of hardship, we often get activated into child parts and lose our adult perspective. When this happens, it becomes very difficult to regulate, organize, make decisions, or take action. I will share embodied tools to help you navigate triggers and find adult clarity during times when you need grounding and healing.

Even if you have done IFS or other kinds of parts work, this way of exploring will be a version that is restful, creative, and physical.