HEART body therapy

therapy for the people

Telehealth for Colorado Residents

Access from where you are

This is not your average teleconference meeting that exasperates Zoom fatigue.1

Example: Re-Orientations for relating through screens and IRL in real life options

  • attunement connection and contact from a distance, presence and perception
  • exiting the frame and entering the unseen (physiology of stress and essential cellular processes)

Limited In-Person appointments available

sensory sanctuary studio office, outdoor locations of City Park for eco//nature/land-based gathering

Themes of Focus

  • survivors of complex trauma + ongoing active trauma
    • relational attachment wounds, abuse, sexual violence
    • spiritual/moral injury + vicarious trauma
    • brain injury, neurodisability, ADHD, autism, etc
    • oppression, torture, war/conflict, religious groups
  • situated intersectional multitude
    • self, culture, identities, intersections, relations, values
  • internal conflicts + patterns of survival
    • dissonance, disconnection, loneliness, stuckness
    • flight/fight/freeze/fawn/collapse
    • people-pleasing, negative bias, burnout,
    • overachieving high performance, worth, imposter
  • major transitions, life stages, rites of passage
    • loss of identity/community/role acquired disability
    • parenthood, career change, physical geography, return to civilian life, retirement
    • near death experiences, psychedelic integration, health crisis
    • death/bereavement: loved ones/pets/familiars/nature
  • margins/liminal realms/borderlands
    • diaspora, transnational, third culture, im/migrants, multiracial, multiethnic, transracial adoption
    • loss of language/cultural tradition/connection, assimilation, fractured relations/self
  • ancestral + transgenerational trauma–treasures
    • inheritances, continuations, transforming cycles
  • internalized oppression
    • stereotype threat, racial battle fatigue, codeswitching, [micro]aggressions, implicit biases, shame, apathy, masking, -isms, complicity
  • inflamed bodies
    • chronic pain/illness, in/visible disabilities
    • dissociation, anxiety, depression, autoimmune + GI gut-brain issues, long covid
    • terror, loss, grief, rage, despair, isolation, hyperfunctioning to shutdown
  • relations/relationships
    • nonviolent communication, conflict transformation
    • estrangement, strained/high conflict,
    • power dynamics/differentials,
      systemic, institutional, work/organizations, community, lateral violence
  • familial
    • parents, children, siblings, extended + chosen family
    • secrets, addiction/self-medication
  • societal global crises
    • ecological destruction, climate grief, activism, gun violence, human rights violations, health justice/disparities, natural disaster

What if the suffering was not wasted?

Courage guides you in the dark.
Through doors of pain:
a healing path
you know by heart

Breathing in:
Alchemize poison
Breathing out:
Offering antidote


From life’s essence,
We embody reparations and protective sustenance.
We feed the yearning for kinship of healing connection.

My approach to therapy rooted in belongingness was born out of necessity.
When I most needed care, professionals treated me as a case study in their learning process.
I often felt exhausted with therapy because the professionals were out of their depth.
I experienced sessions oriented around questioning that offered little to no therapeutic benefit.
It was confusing and strange to feel overwhelmingly inflamed and reeling afterwards.


I learned from how armchair experts exploited my pain under the guise of therapy.
It shaped my commitment to walk alongside clients in mutuality and advocacy.

You are free in belonging to yourself,
belonging nowhere and belonging everywhere.

Sessions may include:

  • epigenetics, polyvagal attachment theory, developmental embryology, medical ethnobotany, liberation methodologies and mindfulness of deep human ecology, nature, land and earth-based attachment 
  • body practices to explore movement possibilities and movement training to relieve symptoms of chronic pain/distress and transform complex trauma
  • holistic psychoeducation for empowering awareness with contexts: intergenerational parts work, inner child healing, collective healing, biology of trauma, neuroinflammation, music analgesics, hormones in emotional tears etc. (a little Bob Ross, LaVar Burton, Mr. Rogers, David Attenborough, Alexis Nikole, Ms. Frizzle)
  • strengths-based growth for mental fitness vitalizing flow, engaging patterns of rewarding satisfaction of internal resources
  • sessions provide the contexts and conditions for people to connect their inner power and abilities to touch the peace of being in their bodily experience 
  • cultivate/bolster resourcing rituals for daily relationships and nurture connections that support life harmony/self-regulation/co-regulation/dynamic adaptive stress capacities e.g. breath, meditation, mindfulness (eating, sitting, standing, walking, rest, work, play) yoga, pilates, martial arts, dance, acudetox, deep rest, bilateral stimulation, guided imagery, visualization, etc. 
  • reframe, restory, restructure, rerelate to meaning and being, expressive and creative approaches: poetry, music, dance, improvisation, drama and narrative methods
  • depth psychology, symbolism, archetypes, astrology, tarot/oracle, folklore, myths, to relate to the gestalt (whole/entirety) of experience
  • transpersonal/spiritual and sacred aspects that support belonging and contact with more than human relations
  • western psychology often excludes sources of wisdom that go back millennia; some modalities that come through my work include mindfulness-based cognitive therapy MBCT, compassion focused therapy CFT, dialectical behavioral therapy DBT, motivational interviewing MI, internal family systems IFS, family systems therapy FST, acceptance and commitment therapy ACT, biofeedback, emotionally focused therapy EFT, accelerated experiential dynamic psychotherapy AEDP etc

Integrative Practices – Somatic Embodied Experiential Expressive Arts

Zen Mindfulness – since 2001

  • Thầy Thích Nhất Hạnh and community: global teaching tours + retreats

Somatics + Dance Movement – since 2004

  • Structured Improvisation
  • Contact Improvisation
  • Gaga Movement Language
  • Contemplative Movement Practice
  • Performance Ritual/Eco-based Dance Movement Rituals
  • Butoh Dance
  • Authentic Movement
  • BodyMind Centering – Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen
  • Contemporary/Modern Dance/Ballet
  • Presence/Improvisation – Stanislavski + Uta Hagen

Martial Arts – since 2004

  • Indigenous Vietnamese Martial Arts – Võ thuật Tây Sơn Bình Định
  • Shōrin-ryū Karate

Yoga – since 2006

  • Hatha/Restorative/Yin/Yoga Nidra
  • Ashtanga Yoga – Susan Taylor, Chungsue Bacigalupi, Tim Miller
  • Vinyasa – Toni Mar

Pilates – since 2016

  • BASI/Classical/Fletcher/Stott
  • PT-inspired

Auricular Acupuncture– since 2023

  1. Riedl R. (2022). On the stress potential of videoconferencing: definition and root causes of Zoom fatigue. Electronic markets, 32(1), 153–177. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12525-021-00501-3
    Potential Stress of Zoom Fatigue
    Four Causes of Zoom Fatigue ↩︎