Who Is Mentorship For?

Anyone who feels a longing to be held accountable to their own power and responsibility, who is searching for an honest, compassionate and fierce container within which to explore what it means to be human at this time. What is the particular unique and essential shape and imprint of your soul? What are the stories that animate and inspire you? For whom and for what do you feel an unwavering sense of responsibility? What is the wellness in you that has the miraculous power to attend to what is not well? Where and what are your vulnerabilities, that if we are to move past an identification with the wound, might offer us valuable information? Together we will remember what it looks like to well(enough) in a culture that strategically starves its individuals and communities, in a world that is longing for initiated adults.

What Does 1:1 Mentorship Look Like?

Part practical guidance, part grandmothering, part soul-guiding and ancestral honoring and repair, and certainly containing the evidence-based, more ecologically-minded elements of modern psychotherapy, mentorship is an old world thing that is hard to find in Western Culture’s modern medical model. In one form or another, this kind of mentoring is a thing all of us desperately need, but few of us are awake enough to know to long for.

Mentorship is self-designed and determined by you. There are no set schedules and expectations on my part. You may start with weekly sessions and move to monthly in short order. I will, of course, share my thoughts with you about how you might get the most out of this important investment. But you are the final word on how and what. What I will say about cadence is that at first it is often very useful to have a few sessions in quick succession, so we can get to know each other and (to loosely quote Starhawk) build a sturdy enough basket to carry us where we need to go.

What is My Role In This Mentorship?

I am a trauma-trained psychotherapist of more than 25 years, a somatic sex educator and an ancestral medicine practitioner. I am also a mother, a devoted community tender and a woman in her queen years. From this point of intersection I work across multiple realms to support your most precious, wild and courageous becoming. While I will weave in the important threads from western medicine’s research and practice, this is not therapy. There are times when I will sit with you as a sister. And there are times when I will sit with you as a grandmother, and times as a guide. There may be cause for me to share with you from my own intimate experience. And, staying fluid, the next moment may call for a fierce reflection. This is why mentorship is not for everyone. I am not working for you in our mentorship. I am working for The World, as it continues to unfurl and (at this moment) unravel. But your bravest and most unique contribution is essential to The World from which we have both come and to which we both owe everything.