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Individual and Group Services
Remembrance of True Identity
The educational services described below are available via Zoom and as part of a corporate or organizational on-site training package.
There are three models we use for individual work, all of which can include the specifics mentioned above. None are therapy, but all are therapeutic.
This type of holistic, culturally driven healing is often more accessible and more accepted by individuals who experience trust challenges in western therapy models and systems.
Be Where Your Feet Are
These Indigenous-healing groups require an 8-week commitment that focuses on teaching, exploring, and practicing mindfulness and expressive meditation, plant and stone medicine, guided visualizations and journeys, breathing exercises, biofeedback, storytelling, movement, and journaling. The activities enhance brainwave activity, heart rate variability, and neurotransmitter chemical levels to boost mood and sleep, reduce anxiety and pain, and foster cultural and community support systems. These groups are open to the public and particularly helpful for Tribal behavioral health, social service, education, and other staff members and caregivers. For more information, see The Center for Mind-Body Medicine at https://cmbm.org/
Women’s Water Circles
These medicine circles use rituals and ceremony to understand our relationship with water, encouraging us to be present in the moment through the feminine medicine of water. Seeking to understand ourselves as part of, rather than separate from nature, we may explore the snow and frozen water, swamp water, lake and river water, rainwater, well water, spring water, ocean water, and the water within ourselves as healing catalysts. Each session will include time for sharing, a ritual and processing, a breathing or mindfulness exercise, and an optional homework activity. These groups are open to the public and particularly helpful for Tribal behavioral health, social service, education, and other staff members and caregivers.
“You do not have to be a fire for every mountain blocking you. You could be water and soft river your way to freedom too” - options
Nature-based Constellation Sessions
Based on Francesca Mason-Boring’s Indigenous adaptations to Family Constellation work, this model is deeply aligned with Indigenous teachings and incorporates the animal, plant, and stone relatives in the “field of knowing” that the relative and helper stand on.
Facilitated outside, on Changing Mother Earth, these individual, group, family or community sessions include transformational education and healing. Deepening the relative participant’s understanding of their own trauma history, their innate, cultural and lineage resilience and strengths, and those of their ancestors, reestablishes connections with the land, lineage and ancestral stories and addresses generational wounds.
In groups and community settings, these sessions often uncover and illuminate lateral violence and its origins, supporting the healing team to transform these into lateral kindness for self and others.
In individual sessions, it can be helpful to incorporate community or family members in the healing work, but this can also be done with drawing, the use of plant or stone allies, or other figurines.
Somatic Storytelling
The body remembers everything that the mind forgets. Every tension, pause, or ache carries a story — a moment of survival, a memory of love, or an imprint of what was left unsaid.
Dr. Ruby Gibson, PhD, my mentor and founder of Somatic Archaeology ©, teaches that healing begins when we learn to listen to those stories with compassion and curiosity rather than fear or analysis.
Somatic Archaeology is both a philosophy and a practice. It invites us to explore the layers of our lived experience — not to relive trauma, but to re-establish connection with the wisdom stored in the body. This process mirrors the work of an archaeologist, gently uncovering an ancient site. Each movement, sensation, and emotion is treated as a sacred artifact — part of a larger story about resilience, belonging, and renewal.
In Indigenous worldviews, the body is not separate from the land. When we listen to our body, we are also listening to the Earth. The heartbeat mirrors the drum, the breath mirrors the wind, and our movements carry ancestral rhythm.
Sessions may include breathwork, sound work, working with plant and stone relatives, somatic exploration, moving energy, grounding and centering techniques, and ancestral connection.
Indigenous Bodywork
The Traditional Cherokee methods of “reading the body”, taught by Lewis Mehl-Medrona, MD and Barbara Mainguy, MA, LCSW, honors the influence that Native medicine had on osteopathy, chiropractic healing, movement and narrative therapies.
Sessions braid neuroscience, oral storytelling, and ritual into relieving physical, spiritual, mental and emotional discomforts that have lodged themselves into both the body and the behaviors of participants. Through physical manipulation of the body (by a licensed massage therapist) and the narrative storytelling the participant shares, an Indigenous BodyTalk practitioner supports the relative to release stored trauma and stress.
This team approach to healing that involves two practitioners, a relative participant, and, when available, family members, support persons and community members, including Elders and Traditional Healers, honors the relational healing that is necessary for sustained change.
Individual sessions use traditional Cherokee methods of reading the body, working through deep tissue pressure, and incorporate rocking, shaking, visualization and dialogue.