Since 2006 I have been engaged in anti-violence and trauma work in different capacities, from being a rape crisis counselor in an emergency room to a community organizer to a book editor to a trauma-focused somatic writing workshop facilitator, both IRL and online. I travel the country speaking at colleges, universities, and community organizations. I also have additional trainings in harm reduction & substance misuse/ addiction and bring breathwork an herb work to these communities.

In this work I am uniquely skilled and always learning more. I bring a trauma-informed, queer & trans centered, person-first, non-pathologizing or shaming lens to this work. I also am always continuously developing my skill set further and will continue to do additional breathwork trainings, herbal study, energy work attunements, and additional trauma & PTSD study in the coming years, as I am able, all in service of offering deeply skilled, trauma-informed care to the many communities I work with. I've been lucky to have been supporting people in some of their darkest (and brightest!) times for years and am incredibly heartened and inspired by this work.

After an increase in 2020 and then decrease in practitioners offering sliding scale, I'm still one of a few breathwork facilitators I know offering sliding scale rates for 1:1 sessions. Each month a good portion of my sessions are in the lower and middle of my scale and I welcome that, knowing that people are accessing care at a level they can afford however the only way for sliding scale to truly work is if the top of the scale also fills out and offers some balance. I don't receive outside funding to do this work and I don't have non-profit status. I also want to continue to offer even more donation-based work and need a bit more financial stability to do so.

If I was charging the market rate, I would be charging something around $150-$225 flat rate, per session like most of my colleagues. That rate feels inaccessible to me, personally, and for many people that I work with and want to continue working with.

I know that racism, classism, colonialism, homophobia , transphobia, and ableism greatly impact and shape access to care. Across my different modalities, practices and workshops my clients have included LGBTQ people, BIPOC, members of a harm reduction clinic, people moving through substance misuse, members of sex worker communities, other practitioners who offer sliding scale care, people addressing religious trauma & reconsidering and/or leaving harmful religious institutions, and all of the overlaps and intersections, of course.

Healing work is not a luxury: it's necessary medicine and something all people deserve access to, to find support in.

Financial access is a deep commitment of mine— it's a way I try to offer healing work as a form of justice work, and it's deeply in line with the integrity I hope to bring to this work. I also know that when I am personally and financially resourced properly, I am able to show up and give even more and that's the whole plan. I want to continue to do even more!

For access to my sliding scale, I don't ask to see any "proof" of income; I rely on the honesty, integrity and accountability of those seeking my services and allow people the opportunity to self-select where they fall on my scale, using an income-model as a guide. I trust the high and low ends will balance out over time. I also truly believe that if people are coming to me and this work from a place of honesty, integrity and accountability that the healing possibilities and alignment is that much stronger.

If you donate, you can know that your donation goes directly to supporting the lower and middle levels of the sliding scale, supports me in continuing to offer free and donation-based work with breathwork & herbs, helps me to invest in my deepening skill set, and develop even more ways for people to access care at different financial entry points.

You can donate above or if you book a sliding scale breathwork session or a sliding scale herbal consultation you will also be given a chance to add an additional donation amount. I've already had some people Pay It Forward and it's warmed my heart so much to see people invest in other people's care and access.

Thank you thank you thank you so very much in advance for supporting accessible healing work. Thank you for helping me continue to poke holes in the Healing Industrial Complex so that more of us can access life-sustaining care and healing.