About Summar

It is an honor and gift to support others on their healing journeys, and I am grateful to be a guide and witness to folx accessing their own transformative healing power. 

I have a nature based, holistic, and decolonial approach to therapy. I use trauma informed, strengths-based, and liberation psychology frameworks when working with those I support. This means that I work in a non-pathologizing way, and often call attention to the ways in which trauma, systemic oppression, colonization, and capitalism shape our experiences and contribute to our suffering. I believe that your feelings are essential to your survival, rather than a problem to be diagnosed. 

I often support people who identify as neurodivergent, chronically ill, disabled, queer, trans, people of the global majority, activists, and more. I also often work with folx who experience feelings of anxiety, depression, disconnection, overwhelm, and burnout. I enjoy supporting folx in tending to boundary wounds, abandonment and rejection wounds, intergenerational wounds, as well as holding, moving, and transforming what feels stuck. 

During sessions, I may offer elements of mindfulness, somatic and body based practices, brainspotting, expressive arts, relational work, compassion work, parts work, energy awareness, and more. I also enjoy calling nature and ritual into the healing space. I am passionate about trauma work and enjoy supporting folx in discovering and leaning into their body's wisdom and capacity to heal. 

I am devoted to my own ongoing healing praxis, and this informs the work that I do with those I support. I am deeply influenced by indigenous wisdom from healing and spiritual traditions such as Ayurveda, Buddhism, Traditional Chinese Medicine, Dagara spirituality, and many more. I am grateful to the many generations of indigenous healers who have kept the wisdom of these traditions alive.

 My deepest gratitude to the powerful teachers who continue to influence me in this work, and the medicine that they generously share. Thank you to my many teachers, including Malidoma Patrice Somé, Linda Thai, Resmaa Menakem, the many powerful healers who support me, my incredibly generous and wise community, my ancestors, my wounds, The Earth, The Water...