Therapy
Our sessions will help you reclaim what has been lost or forgotten by living within systems and environments that generate distress. With careful and collaborative tending, we can transform painful experiences into opportunities to awaken something deeper within. Trauma, depression, and anxiety take many forms with origins ranging from a single event to multigenerational transmission. All can lead to feeling as if you are constantly in survival mode, tense, and on guard.
My therapeutic approach combines mindfulness, transpersonal psychotherapy, parts work, trauma-informed holistic coaching and nature-based healing. Together, we will expand your capacity for growth by identifying and embracing alignments as well as learning to stay curious through misalignments. In this space, you are free to practice being an imperfectionist and invited to remember my humanity as an ever-changing being. I am not here to answer lifes questions for you, but I will empower you to tune in deeply to the wisdom held within.
“The longest journey you’ll ever make is from your head to your heart.” - Sioux proverb
Art by Leah Pantéa
Existential Immersions
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Fear of death is often proportional to life unlived. Since we emerged from the stars, no single person’s life has ever been more or less guaranteed than another’s. The time to tend to your life is now. These sessions are designed to support you in living more meaningfully by embracing the inevitability of the end. This immersion is born from 5+ years of mortality contemplation including completing and co-facilitating group experiences influenced by Stephen Levine’s “A Year to Live” program.
This offering can be done in a single session or as many as feels supportive. It is designed to allow you to take the “year to live” process at your own pace, by choice or prognosis. Your process may unfold in individual sessions or working collaboratively with loved ones or in groups. Immersions range from meditations to connect with the dying process; engaging with unfinished business; deepening presence in life; sacred burials to return your body to the earth; and opening your heart to joy!
“The more you sense the rareness and value of your own life, the more you realize that how you use it and manifest it is your responsibility.” - Kobun Chino Roshi
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There is no deeper healing I have known than what is so naturally gifted by plants. Their medicine is exceptionally simple and yet undeniably profound. These sessions are a loving co-facilitation between me, you, and plants. Together, we call your spirit to wake, cleanse unsupportive energy, and ease your nervous system. When we allow the plants to support us, when we reciprocate with gratitude and love, we remember our true nature.
These healings weave together my experience with psychedelic medicines and earth-centered healing with roots held firmly in academic studies and traditional assistantships. While each session is unique; they may include energetic cleansing, plant brushings, gentle bodywork, guided meditations, as well as preparation and integration from experiences that evoke altered states of consciousness.
“Rue is like an angel showering light on everyone.” - Beatrice Torres Waight
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Need to reboot your relationship with technology? Don’t we all! These sessions empower you to quiet the noise, reduce distraction, release fear, and reconnect with your devices more intentionally. They are a heart to heart with your digital life— an invitation to cut through co-dependence and regain personal sovereignty in the presence of screens. This is not a detox; it is an opportunity to begin re-wiring how you engage digitally day-to-day.
Years of my career were dedicated to understanding how AI might support humans. The countless takeaways left me with no other choice than to get clear and intentional about my relationship with technology. Given how much we interact with AI daily, I wonder if the intelligence in question is more expansive than artificial. What might happen if we met it with the same compassion and respect we strive to offer the rest of the Earth? Greeting technology with fear and resistance is understandable, and working through it together may be one path to ensuring a more secure future for ourselves and our grandchildren.
“One of the reasons so many people are suffering from stress is not that they are doing stressful things but that they allow so little time for silence.” - John o’Donohue
“Fear is a natural reaction to moving closer to the truth.”
— Pema Chödrön
Service Summary
A sliding scale is available for those with a financial need or unique circumstances. Social-circle exchanges are open for exploration. While I do not accept insurance, a Superbill can be provided to request reimbursement.
Free consultation (25 min)
Therapy session (50 min) - $150
Immersion session (75-90 min) - $200