Mission and Code of Ethics

I am a commitment to giving people tools for inner reconciliation and believe that as we create harmony within, peace will ripple out into the world.

As such, I believe in creating strong alchemical containers for my clients’ personal process. 

This includes:

Discretion and Confidentiality. Your name and personal details are held in confidence. It is important to me that you feel free to explore in our 1:1 work together. In promoting my work in the world, I often share experiences of client work that pulls together common themes from several clients rather than specifics. Exceptions to confidentiality: illegal activity, when required by law, pursuant to valid court order or subpoena; imminent or likely risk of danger to self or to others; etc. 

Safety and Resiliency. The first work we do in Depth Sessions after container setting is to identify and/or establish inner and outer resources so that there is a capacity to give and room to receive honest reflection. As part of this, pacing of sessions is determined by my clients’ needs and nervous system tolerances. 

Consent. In some ways, booking a session is a form of consent for us to work somatically. At the same time, many of us have not experienced life in the context of consent. In session, I am often speaking to many different parts of your experience—broadly categorized according to feelings, mind, body, and your innate wisdom and will use invitational language quite a bit so that your attention continually turns inward and your system begins to register this movement of looking within for an answer, need, or preference, first. Therapeutic touch may be offered as a part of in-person sessions with client consent.

Honest and balanced reflection. I hold a mirror for my clients to see and hear themselves, where they struggle, and the possibilities within and before them. I confront clients’ heavy-handedness firmly with compassion and don’t let shitty self-talk slide by unacknowledged, unaddressed, or redressed. I invite my clients to practice offering honest and balanced reflection beginning with themselves and with me.

Personal Sovereignty. I invite clients into the process of creating and holding this strong container for themselves. I am not the final arbiter of what is appropriate for my clients. I do not fix. I invite them and assist them in cultivating the internal space to anchor into a sense of safety and for their innate wisdom to speak and be heard.

Boundaries and Expectations. What is included in the container as well as your rights and responsibilities as my client can be found in the Depth Sessions contract. Further, I don’t engage in intimate relationships with clients. I don’t take on as clients, or admit into intimate group containers, people with whom I’ve been sexually or romantically intimate in the past.

Scope and Limitations. While I may work with couples, addicts, and people with mental health diagnoses, for example, I am not a relationship coach, addictions counselor, or psychiatrist and, in situations with specific therapeutic needs, ask that you have that core of support in place during our work together.

This code of ethics will surely evolve and be refined as my work with clients deepens. New clients are made aware of this document and will be provided a link to revisions during our active work together.

Lasted updated 8.6.24