A Space for Neurospicy Souls
Welcome to Dragonfly Dharma, a neuro-affirming practice led by a neurodivergent practitioner.
Hi, I'm Dove
I offer preparation and integration mentoring and support for those exploring altered states of consciousness.
Whether those explorations involve plant, sacred, and indigenous medicines, transformational events and festivals, or personal awakenings and spiritual emergence, there is a place for you here.
The work
How can we work together?
There are several options; each one starts with a conversation. None of this work is one-size-fits-all, so let's talk about what your goals, thoughts, and intentions are. My work involves helping you find the right fit at the right time and place.
Kambo
An intense, short-acting, non psychedelic experience involving the secretions of the Amazonian Giant Monkey Frog. Kambo isn't for everyone, but it may be for you. I came to Kambo after years of chronic pain, after trying everything else...and something shifted. Not just the pain, but something deeper inside of me. I am a certified practitoner through Kambo International.
Learn more →Psychedelic Preparation & Integration
I am not a psychedelic guide or therapist. Instead, I am a thinking partner, a peer mentor, trauma-informed and trained in integrative psychedelic studies through the Psychedelics Today VITAL program and through ZendoSIT. I offer integration support prior to your experience, during the planning process, and afterwards. I do not facilitate illegal sessions; I do help you think clearly about what you're interested in doing and why.
Learn more →Reiki & Energy Work
I've been studying energy work and spirituality since the late 1990s. I was attuned to levels I and II via William Lee Rand in 2003 and have been practicing ever since. I offer a mix of the spiritual and scientific. Curiosity, not dogma. Presence, not performance.
Learn more →"I'm not here - or able - to sell you transformation. I'm here to help you figure out what's worth exploring, share with you what I know (and be honest about what I don't), and sit with you through whatever comes up."– Dove
Who this is for
People who want a thinking partner, not a guru.
People who are neurodivergent, have been shaped by trauma, are skeptical of wellness culture, or who've had experiences that don't fit neatly into any existing box.
People who've been failed by conventional approaches and are ready to take their own curiosity seriously, carefully, and with good support.
Read the FAQA note on pricing
Sliding scale rates
Kambo is $150 a session, or $400 for three. Preparation and integration sessions are $60. Reiki ranges from $25 to $80 depending on format. Discovery calls are always free. I believe this work should be accessible, so if those numbers are not possible for you, reach out and we will figure something out.
The worst that happens is we both spend 20 minutes having an interesting conversation.
Book a discovery callAbout
Spiraling upwards
I should probably tell you how I got here, because I think it's important. Not because it adds legitimacy, but as context.
In my mid teens, I had my first foray into more esoteric spirituality. Raised Roman Catholic and exposed to Southern Christianity at a young age soon after the death of my father, I eschewed both and instead began my exploration into Paganism, Buddhism, Shamanism, yoga, energy work, tarot, and other assorted metaphysical paths. Finding it hard to mesh the scientific, mystical, political, philosophical, and psychological, I put most deep considerations into spirituality on the back burner, though all of the connections kept simmering, through years of reading, questioning, experimenting, and the kind of slow spiritual evolution that doesn't fit neatly into a timeline.
I moved into more political and activist arenas. I spent my twenties trying to fix the world, to create lasting, sustainable change. I earned my degree in Women's Studies and African American Studies, and later began studying Psychoanalytic Feminist Theory and the liberation movements of the 1960s – 1980s. My interests were wide and I wasn't able to find a common thread, not realizing my intelligence and "giftedness" had been helping me mask areas where I had challenges: time blindness, executive function, thinking in ideas without always having the language to explain the connections I was making.
I served with the US Peace Corps in Cape Verde, worked in youth development and refugee education with AmeriCorps, took jobs with state and federal agencies that I truly believed would let me help people. Later, I completed work for my MPA in Nonprofit Management. And there was real, meaningful work in all of that. But systems, however well-intentioned, have a particular talent for grinding down the people trying to run them. Especially those of us who have a certain knack for seeing and identifying patterns but without the ability to enact real change.
I kept hitting the same walls: cycles of overwhelm, burnout, and shutdown that I couldn't explain and couldn't break out of. All of this indicated a struggle with mental health. Depression. Anxiety. Other labels, letters, and (mis)diagnoses. For a long time, I thought I was just lazy. Undisciplined. Crazy. I thought that was just me, and that I was just...wrong.
As it turns out, it wasn't just me, nor am I inherently "wrong." A late AuDHD diagnosis (autistic and ADHD) joined my "gifted" label from grade school, as did an understanding of developmental trauma and cPTSD. All of which reframed pretty much everything I'd come to believe. Including the chronic pain I'd been living with since childhood.
I have tried a lot of things for that pain. Chiropractic, acupuncture, acupressure, Rolfing, Trager, massage, yoga, Pilates, PT (and those are just the fun ones). Later: trigger point injections, epidurals, radiofrequency ablation. I'd occasionally get relief for a while and then lose it. I could never figure out why I couldn't sustain progress. The answer, eventually, was that my nervous system was working against every intervention, and I didn't yet have the tools to understand that.
I started ketamine therapy for my chronic, treatment resistant depression, which helped tremendously with many of the symptoms traditional psychiatric medication and conventional therapy hadn't touched, but didn't quite reach the underlying disconnect. I went to Peru for a month. I sat with indigenous medicine multiple times, both Ayahuasca and San Pedro. I worked with multiple Curanderos. Back in the US, I tried Kambo for the first time, and for the first time in years, my pain became manageable. It hadn't disappeared, but the intensity lessened significantly. My motivation shifted. My executive function shifted. I got curious, and then I got certified, because I wanted to offer other people what had been offered to me.
I'm not a therapist. I'm not a doctor. I'm a practitioner and a peer, and I take this work seriously, including its limits and mine.
I practice out of my home in the Finger Lakes region of Upstate New York and occasionally am able to travel for Kambo sessions. I have two tiny dogs. They remain upstairs or out of the home for our sessions (unless you love tiny dog face licks, in which case arrangements can be made). Preparation and integration support is offered via phone, video conferencing, or email.
Training & certifications:
- –Certified Kambo Practitioner – Kambo International
- –Certificate in Integrative Studies (specalizations in Spiritual Emerence and Trauma and Somatics) – Psychedelics Today
- –ZendoSIT (Sitting and Integration Training) – Zendo Project
- –Peer Support Services Training – The Acadamy of Peer Services
- –Reiki Attunements, Levels I & II – William Lee Rand, International Center for Reiki Training
- –Background: Nonprofit management, community development, event production (US & international)
I also write. You can find my Substack below. Essays about grief, indigenous medicine, neurodivergence, insomnia, travel adventures, and whatever else is happening at 2am.
Read on Substack ↗The name
Why Dragonfly Dharma?
I've always been drawn to dragonflies.
Long before any of this, before I understood why, I felt an affinity for them – the transformation they undergo, the way they shift between water and air, the fact that they live in more than one world and seem entirely at home in that liminality. One of my first tattoos was a dragonfly. I didn't overthink it at the time. I just knew it was mine.
Years later, in Peru, the Shaman I worked with offered to align each of us with a chosen spirit animal. (I use that term because it's the one he used – not casually, and not as something to borrow lightly.) Mine was the dragonfly. Not only because of my lifelong connection, but because they were everywhere in the Peruvian Amazon. In the pond I swam in daily, flitting and skirting over the water. Greeting me on the path to my bungalow daily – magenta pink, a color I'd never seen before in a dragonfly, and I still tell myself it was the same one every day.
Then, as part of my own journey, I chose to make it permanent in a different way. During my kambo "Warrior's Initiation" (a 3x3), I had 33 small gateways burned along my thoracic spine, in the exact place my chronic pain had lived for most of my life. The heart space. When the points healed, they formed the shape of a dragonfly. I didn't plan that. I decided to let it mean something.
And then there's the dharma.
In yogic philosophy, dharma points toward something I have kept circling back to: your path, your purpose, the way you're meant to move through the world. Living as you were meant to live. After years of trying to fit myself into shapes that were never built for me, the idea of dharma – of a life mission that's actually yours – felt less like a concept and more like a homecoming.
Dragonfly Dharma, then, is both halves of the same thing. The transformation and the path. The medicine and the meaning. The thing that was burned into me, and the thing I'm here to do. Om Namah Shivaya.
Read more About Dove →Language matters
A word about words
Two words on this site are doing a lot of work, and I would rather explain them up front than have you guess at what I mean.
Healing
I prefer to use the term healing rather than wellness. The distinction between the two crystallized for me after reading Linnea Butler's work on healing (though I still can't track down the exact article that created the Ah ha moment, so consider this an uncited citation), and it changed how I talk about my work.
Healing does not mean "cure." Many of the things that are causes of our state of dis-ease are not pathological, though we are taught to view them that way. Neuro-complexity is not something to be cured. It is something to be supported and celebrated. Features, not flaws :)
What healing speaks to is health. Changing the things you want to change, accepting the things you cannot change or choose not to, and knowing which is which. Building a life around what you actually need in order to thrive, rather than around somebody else's picture of success and happiness. Fixing what should be fixed. Adapting inside a world that is not always friendly and is arguably on its last legs.
This isn't a new wellness craze or way to optimize your life. It's an exploration into what our deepest self can communicate to us to help us live our dharma.
Neurospicy
I like neurospicy because it is playful. Spicy means hot, flavorful, complex, deep, intricate. It also means it burns sometimes. That about covers it.
I have seen the term called racist, on the grounds that it borrows from "spicy Latina" and "angry Black woman" stereotypes, and I take that seriously. I also watched a Black commenter push back on exactly that argument. She used the word, said anyone could use the word, and pointed out that it was mostly white women policing the term while doing nothing that actually helped People of the Global Majority. That landed for me.
So I use it. If it is not your word, it is not your word, and I have no stake in you using it.
Read more About Dove →How I work
What is Peer Support and Why is it Important?
Peer support means somebody who has been through something similar sitting with you through it, rather than an expert treating you from the outside. It is not a softer version of therapy, and it is not new. It has a long lineage, most of it built by people who were not being helped by the systems that were supposed to help them.
- ·Psychedelic and indigenous medicine spaces. The sitter, the person who stays, who does not intervene when intervening is not needed and does not leave when it gets hard. This existed long before it had a clinical name or a certificate attached to it.
- ·The disability rights movement. Independent living was organized around the premise that disabled people are the authorities on their own lives. Nothing about us without us.
- ·The psychiatric survivors and ex-patients movement. Overlapping with disability rights, but worth naming separately. People who had been through psychiatric treatment they did not consent to, building their own alternatives instead. Judi Chamberlin's On Our Own came out of that work, and so, eventually, did the certified peer specialist role I trained for.
- ·Autistic self-advocacy. Where nothing about us without us gets used most sharply now, and where a good deal of the language I use came from.
- ·Addiction recovery. Mutual aid, where the person across from you has been where you are, is not above you, and is not billing your insurance.
- ·Women's consciousness-raising circles of the 1970s. Rooms where saying a private thing out loud revealed that it was structural rather than personal. The personal is political came out of those rooms.
What all of those have in common is that the expertise runs sideways instead of down. That matters more than usual in this work, because the systems most of us came through were not built for us, and because being told what your experience means by somebody who has not had it is its own kind of injury.
It runs through everything here, not just the integration work. It is why intake is a conversation instead of a form, why I will tell you when I think something is not right for you, and why I am comfortable saying I do not know.
I am trained in it (Academy of Peer Services, and Zendo SIT for difficult experiences). But the qualification underneath the training is that I have been on the other side of the conversation.
See it in practice Preparation & Integration →Services
Three ways to work together
Every path starts with a free 20 minute discovery call. I'll ask about what you're looking for, answer your questions honestly, including if I think something isn't right for you, and we go from there.
Kambo
An intense, short-acting, non psychedelic experience involving the secretions of the Amazonian Giant Monkey Frog. Kambo isn't for everyone, but it may be for you. I am a certified practitoner through Kambo International.
Full details →Psychedelic Preparation & Integration
Planning support, harm reduction, and integration work. Not facilitation of illegal substances. A thinking partner for before, during the planning process, and after.
Full details →Reiki & Energy Work
Levels 1 & 2. Quiet, grounded, no grand claims. Available standalone or as a complement to other work.
Full details →Services
Kambo
An ancient Amazonian medicine. Intense, brief, and not for everyone. Possibly for you.
What is Kambo?
Kambo is a secretion harvested from the skin of the giant monkey frog (Phyllomedusa bicolor), a bright green tree frog native to the upper Amazon basin. Indigenous peoples of the Amazon (including the Matsés, Mayoruna, and Katukina) have used kambo for centuries as a hunting aid, a physical cleanser, and a spiritual reset. It is often called the "vaccine of the forest."
The secretion contains a complex cocktail of bioactive peptides, short chains of amino acids that interact with the human body in specific and measurable ways. Some of the main ones are:
- ·Dermorphin and deltorphin (bind to opioid receptors with greater affinity than morphine)
- ·Phyllocaerulein (stimulates gastric secretion and smooth muscle contraction)
- ·Phyllomedusin (affects the cardiovascular and gastrointestinal systems)
- ·Dermaseptins (antimicrobial properties)
- ·Phyllokinin (a potent vasodilator; widens blood vessels and increases permeability of the blood-brain barrier)
- ·Sauvagine (acts on the stress axis, the adrenal and pituitary system)
- ·Adenoregulin (interacts with adenosine receptors, which are involved in energy and sleep regulation)
- ·Bombesin-like peptides (gastric and digestive effects)
Research into these peptides is ongoing, and I am not going to make clinical claims. But the science is real, and the traditional use spans generations.
About the frogs
The frogs are not harmed, and this matters to me, so I want to be clear about how it works. They are nocturnal and are gathered at dawn, usually by singing to call them down from the trees. The frog is held gently by its legs in a loose X shape while the secretion is scraped from its back with a small wooden stick. It is then released, unharmed, at the same spot it was collected from.
A frog is left with a small mark on its leg from the tie. That mark is the record: by the time it fades, the frog has replenished its secretions, and only then can it be harvested again. It is a built-in limit that prevents over-harvesting, and it depends on the collectors knowing their frogs and their forest. In the communities that steward this practice, the frogs are considered sacred, and a frog that is mistreated is understood to stop producing. The medicine and the animal are not separable.
Kambo is not a psychedelic. You won't hallucinate. You won't lose consciousness. What you will experience is an intense, brief physiological process that most people describe as one of the hardest things they've done, and one they're truly glad they did.
My story with Kambo
I came to kambo the way a lot of people do, after trying everything else. Decades of chronic pain. A list of interventions that reads like a medical Yellow Pages: chiropractic, acupuncture, Rolfing, Trager, trigger point injections, epidurals, radiofrequency ablation. Some helped temporarily. None lasted long. I couldn't figure out why I couldn't sustain progress, and nobody I worked with could either.
Then I tried kambo. And for the first time in years, my pain became manageable. Not gone completely, but...manageable. My motivation shifted. My executive function shifted. Something I couldn't name shifted. I got curious. I got certified through Kambo International. I completed my Warrior's Initiation (a 3x3) with 33 points burned along my thoracic spine, exactly where the pain had lived. When they healed, they formed the shape of a dragonfly. That shape became my logo, and this practice became Dragonfly Dharma.
I tell you this not to promise you the same results, nor to make claims that I have been miraculously healed. But instead, to tell you where I'm coming from when I say: this medicine changed my life, and I take seriously the responsibility of offering it to others.
What a session looks like
A kambo session typically runs 2 to 3 hours total, though the active experience (the ordeal, as it's traditionally called) usually lasts only 20 to 40 minutes. Here's what happens, step by step:
1. Consultation & Intake
Before we ever schedule a session, we have a thorough conversation about your health history, your medications, your intentions, and your reasons for exploring kambo. This isn't a formality. There are real contraindications (listed below), and I will be honest with you if I think kambo isn't right for you, or isn't right for you right now. I'd rather lose a booking than put someone in an unsafe situation.
2. Intention Setting
On the day of your session, we begin by setting intentions. It is a focusing exercise. What are you hoping to address? What are you ready to let go of? Having clarity here helps the experience land, and it gives us something to come back to during integration afterward.
3. Preparation
You'll drink a specific amount of water (I'll guide you on exactly how much). I then use a small, sterile vine stick to create the points (called "gates") on your skin. These are small, superficial burns, usually on the upper arm or leg. They look like tiny dots and heal within a few weeks. The number and placement of points depends on your experience level, body size, and what we discussed during intake.
4. Application
A small amount of the dried kambo secretion is mixed with water and applied to the open gates. The medicine enters through the lymphatic system. Within minutes you'll start to feel it. Usually warmth, a rise in heart rate, facial flushing, and pressure. Then the purging begins. This typically means vomiting (into a bucket; we're prepared), and it may also include sweating, shaking, swelling, or needing to use the bathroom. I stay with you the entire time. I am monitoring you, talking to you, and making sure you're safe.
5. Removal & Rest
Once the active phase completes (your body will tell us when), I remove the kambo from the points and you rest. Most people feel exhausted immediately after, then experience a shift over the following hours: clarity, lightness, calm, a sense of the volume being turned down, or of awareness being turned up. Some people feel the shift that day. Some feel it the next morning. Some feel it build over days.
6. Integration
We take time after the session to sit with what came up, physically, emotionally, energetically, and sometimes in ways that do not sort neatly into any of those. This is often some of the most important time. I also check in with you in the days following your session. The experience doesn't end when the kambo comes off.
How to prepare
Preparation matters. Your body needs to be ready to receive this medicine. Here's what I ask:
- ·Fasting: Do not eat for 10 to 12 hours before your session. Your stomach must be empty.
- ·Hydration: Drink at least 2 liters of water per day for the 5 days leading up to your session. Proper hydration is essential for safety.
- ·Alcohol: No alcohol for a minimum of 24 to 48 hours before your session. Longer is better.
- ·Diet: Eat clean in the days leading up (minimize processed food, heavy meats, refined sugar). Think simple, nourishing, easy to digest, nothing your body has to fight.
- ·Sleep: Get a full night's rest the night before.
- ·Medications: Disclose everything. Some medications require adjustment or a waiting period. We'll discuss this during intake. Do not stop any medication without consulting your prescriber first.
- ·Mind: Come with a clear intention. You don't need to have it perfectly articulated (we'll shape it together), but have a sense of why you're here.
What to bring
- ·A towel and a personal blanket if you have one you find comforting
- ·Loose, comfortable clothing, and an extra change of clothes (you'll want fresh ones after)
- ·Coconut water and easily digestible fruit (watermelon is great) for after the session
- ·Any comfort items that help you feel safe and grounded
- ·An open mind and whatever courage you've got; you don't need to bring a lot, just enough to show up
A note for neurodivergent people
I'm AuDHD myself, and I know that walking into an intense physical experience with a nervous system that's already running hot requires a different kind of preparation and a different kind of practitioner.
Here's what I want you to know. I will tell you exactly what's going to happen before it happens. I won't use vague language or expect you to "surrender to the process" without understanding what the process is. If you need extra time, written preparation materials, a specific sensory environment, or just someone who won't be surprised by your questions, I'm that person. We'll talk about what your nervous system needs during intake, and I will build the session around that.
Kambo is intense for everyone. For some of us, "intense" requires more intentional scaffolding. That is not a problem. That is just how I work.
Contraindications
Your safety is non-negotiable. Kambo is a powerful medicine and is strictly contraindicated for individuals with certain health conditions. If you have or have had any of the conditions listed below, you cannot participate in a kambo session.
Cardiovascular conditions:
- ·Stroke or heart attack
- ·Heart bypass surgery or valve replacement
- ·Enlarged heart (cardiomyopathy) or congestive heart disease
- ·Pericardial effusion (excess fluid in the heart sac)
- ·Implanted cardiovascular defibrillators
- ·Aneurysms or blood clots
- ·Seriously low or high blood pressure requiring regular medication
- ·Brain hemorrhages
Serious illness & medical treatments:
- ·Currently undergoing chemotherapy or radiation therapy
- ·Organ transplant recipients
- ·Recent major surgical procedures
- ·Taking immunosuppressants
- ·Addison's disease or other adrenal conditions
- ·Severe epilepsy
Mental health:
- ·Active psychosis or certain psychiatric diagnoses
- ·Some psychiatric medications (SSRIs, MAOIs, lithium, and others; we discuss this during intake)
Pregnancy & breastfeeding:
- ·Pregnant women at any stage
- ·Women breastfeeding a child under 1 year of age
This list is not exhaustive. It is your responsibility to fully and honestly disclose all relevant health information before your session. If you're unsure whether something applies, ask. I would always rather have the conversation than not.
Additional considerations
These aren't automatic exclusions, but they require open conversation and possibly extra precautions:
- ·Menstruation: Your flow may increase for up to 3 days following kambo. Plan accordingly.
- ·Asthma: You must have your inhaler with you and inform me before the session.
- ·Autoimmune conditions (MS, ALS): Kambo intensifies the immune system. Participation requires thorough discussion and extreme caution.
- ·Recent use of other substances: Including ayahuasca, bufo/5-MeO-DMT, recreational drugs. Timing matters. We'll discuss.
- ·Water fasting or enemas: Do not do water fasts, colonics, or enemas within 3 days of your kambo session. This is a safety issue related to electrolyte balance.
After the session
Most people feel tired the rest of the day. Some people feel a surge of energy the next morning; others describe a quieter, steadier shift over several days. After my third kambo session I wanted to run a marathon (and I hate running). So there is no single "right" way to feel after kambo. Plan to do nothing. Eat lightly. Drink water and coconut water. Rest. Listen to your body and do what feels right for you.
The points on your skin will heal over the next couple of weeks. They may leave small circular scars that fade with time. Some people (like me) choose to keep them visible as part of the experience. That's personal.
I check in with you the day after your session and am available for follow-up conversation as part of the integration process.
Location & logistics
Sessions are held at my home in the Finger Lakes region of Upstate New York. The space is quiet, private, low-stimulus, predictable, and set up specifically for this work.
I am occasionally able to travel for sessions under certain circumstances. If you're outside my area, reach out and we'll see what's possible.
Preparation and integration support is available by phone, video, or email regardless of location.
Pricing
$150 single session
$400 package of three
$50 in-depth planning call
Free discovery call
Sliding scale available. If these numbers do not work for you, say so and we will figure something out.
Legal status
Kambo is legal and unregulated in the United States. It is not FDA-approved or evaluated. I am certified through Kambo International. I make no medical claims about kambo's effects. This is not a medical practice and I am not a medical professional.
What this is not
This is not psychotherapy, medical treatment, or a substitute for professional healthcare. If you are in crisis, please call 911 or contact the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline. If you are having a difficult psychedelic or spiritual experience, contact the Fireside Project at 623-473-7433.
Ready to talk?
A free 20-minute discovery call is the best place to start. No pressure, no sales pitch, no follow-up sequence, just an honest conversation about whether kambo might be right for you.
Book a discovery callServices
Psychedelic Preparation & Integration
Peer mentoring and support, for the planning, and for everything that comes after.
Let me be clear about what this is and isn't, because I think vagueness in this space does nobody any favors.
I do not facilitate psychedelic experiences involving federally prohibited substances. I am not going to sit with you while you trip. What I do is help you think, clearly and carefully, with the benefit of someone who has done a lot of their own work and spent a lot of time studying this field seriously.
That said... preparation and integration are often where the real work happens anyway. So.
Most of what I offer is peer support, which has a longer history and a sharper meaning than it usually gets credit for. Here is what I mean by it.
If you're in the planning stage
Maybe you're curious about psychedelic-assisted therapy but don't know where to start. Maybe you're considering a retreat and want help evaluating your options without getting swept up in the marketing, because there is a lot of marketing. Maybe you want to explore what's legal (ketamine clinics, licensed psilocybin programs, international options), and you need someone to help you sort through it without judgment.
- ·Setting clear intentions
- ·Understanding different medicines and modalities
- ·Identifying reputable legal options
- ·Evaluating retreat centers and facilitators
- ·Building a harm-reduction framework that fits your actual life
- ·Preparing the people around you, not just yourself
If you're in the integration stage
You had an experience. Maybe it was profound. Maybe it was confusing. Maybe it was both, which is pretty common. Integration is the work of making meaning over time, not forcing a narrative onto what happened, but sitting with the material, figuring out what needs to change, and doing that slowly and on purpose.
I also work with people who've had challenging or overwhelming experiences. My Zendo SIT training is specifically oriented toward supporting people through difficult psychedelic and spiritual emergencies.
I also work with
Breathwork as a non-substance pathway to similar states. Traditional coaching. Helping people build a personalized approach to their own wellness that doesn't require fitting into anyone else's framework. (Most frameworks, it must be said, were not built for neurospicy people. We can do better.)
Who this is for
People who are neurodivergent, trauma-informed, skeptical of wellness culture, or who've had experiences that don't fit neatly into any existing box. People who want a thinking partner, not a guru.
Pricing
$60 per session
Free discovery call
Sliding scale available. If these numbers do not work for you, say so and we will figure something out.
Ready to talk?
Book a discovery callServices
Reiki & Energy Work
Quiet. Grounded. I won't oversell it.
I've been interested in energy work since I was a teenager in the 90s reading everything I could get my hands on about things most of my peers thought were strange. I'm attuned to Reiki levels 1 and 2, and I bring to this work the same thing I bring to everything else: genuine curiosity, real practice, and a strong resistance to overclaiming.
The research on Reiki is limited and I'm not going to pretend otherwise. What I can tell you is that a lot of people find it calming, grounding, and (sometimes) something they don't quite have words for. I'm not going to chase you down with testimonials. If you're curious, we can talk about it.
This might be especially useful if you're someone who's interested in energy work but put off by how it's usually packaged, all the over-the-top mystical language that somehow makes the whole thing feel less real, not more. I have thoughts about why that is, and I'm happy to share them over a discovery call or a session.
Reiki is available on its own or as a complement to other work.
Pricing
$25 distance reiki, 15 minute talk with 15 minute reiki session
$40 phone distance reiki, 15 minute talk with 15 minute reiki session
$50 Zoom distance reiki
$80 in-person, 15 minute talk with 45 minute reiki session
Sliding scale available. If these numbers do not work for you, say so and we will figure something out.
FAQ
Got questions? This might help.
If something isn't covered here, ask me directly. I'd rather answer a question than have someone decide without the information they need.
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Resources
Things worth knowing.
A curated and occasionally opinionated list of resources for people doing serious work. Updated as I find things worth sharing.
Psychedelics & Research
- Kambo International – practitioner training and certification (where I am certified)
- Chacruna Institute – indigenous medicines, culture, ethics, and reciprocity
- DanceSafe – harm reduction
- Psychedelic Science 2027 (MAPS) – May 3–7, 2027, Colorado Convention Center, Denver; registration is open
- Psychedelics Today – education & integration
- Psygaia – psychedelic ecology & integration
- Zendo Project – psychedelic support services
Crisis & Support
- Fireside Project – psychedelic peer support line, call/text 623-473-7433, daily 11am–11pm PT
- 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline – call or text 988, available 24/7 (experiences vary)
Neurodivergence
- Almost Structured – Chris Stephens, CPA – autistic writing on work, giftedness & parenting
- The AutSide – Dr. Jaime Hoerricks, PhD – autistic epistemology, gestalt processing, education & justice
- Beyond Gifted – Emmaly Perks, M.Ed. – giftedness, twice-exceptionality, neurodivergent career & identity
- The Cognitive Ecologist – Sher Griffin – cognitive ecology, systems research, neurodiversity & collective intelligence
- Dismantling the Mind – Amber Ivana – healing and decolonizing belief systems
- The Gifted Experience – Lily Jedynak, PhD – the gifted experience from a wholistic, qualitative perspective
- NeuroJustice – Bridgette Hamstead – systemic framing of neurodivergence
- (Over)thinking Outloud – Emma Klint – thoughts on AI, design & neurodivergence
- Positive Disintegration – Chris Wells – Dąbrowski's theory, overexcitabilities, developmental potential
- The Ubuntu Journey – Amberhawk – neurodivergent community, belonging & collective resilience
Additional Resources
- Dreamshadow Transpersonal Breathwork – Grof-based breathwork, Vermont nonprofit
- Radical Change – Adriana DiFazio – engaged Buddhism, social change & ethics
- Sivananda Yoga Ranch – classical yoga ashram, Catskill Mountains
- Trauma And Somatics – Will Rezin – somatics, human behavior & embodiment
From my desk
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Essays on grief, indigenous medicine, neurodivergence, and the general condition of being a person. Occasionally funny. Always honest.
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