Hello there fellow traveler! I’m Sye (They/Them)
I partner with folx to care for their queer and gender expansive hearts, dreams, & healing!
Supporting artists, careworkers, and queer folx who stand for collective justice to authentically thrive beyond the binaries.
I offer relational, somatic, and creative accompaniment for those who dearly love to laugh, who care fiercely for others, and maybe need a little help showing that love towards themselves. For those who might describe their gender as a garden or a galaxy, for those who may long to shift from patterns of abandonment towards authentic being & belonging.
INCANTATIONS
Sparks of our liberatory nature are always within and around us, awaiting our attention. Systems of oppression and domination, push for our disconnection from this nature, by severing us from each other and the earth, from history, from presence. We become fragmented from our essence through indoctrination into patterns of colonial avoidance, shame, punishment, violence, and weaponized individualism. White violence held up by ableism and imperialism, work to obscure our empowerment, our bold queerness, our radical creativity, and our collective thriving. I support folks resisting social and political corruption that says queerness, fatness, disability, gender non conformitivity are a moral threat . I believe the way we resist control, binaries, and false moral mandates is a personal, interpersonal, and collective healing power we all can hold together. I like to think of healing as a collective field we all participate in, not a goal or an individualized pursuit. I am another human endlessly curious about how we fall apart, and come together, and fall apart, and come together. I help us to be enchanted and grounded in this, rather than thinking we can fix our fragmentation, how can we honor it?
I support folks seeking how we might find our way back towards reconnection, worthiness, authenticity, and belonging through the healing container. Journeying together, we remember that we can be with this heartbreaking and worthwhile world. We can re-enliven through healing our nervous system’s organic impulses, harnessing our creative potential, and deepening awareness of our interconnectedness through the struggle. To resist and live. Together we find the practices to navigate through what is painful & sustain what is joyous about being alive! In this space healing is offered through interpersonal, personal, political, creative, and spiritual lenses.
WHO I WORK WITH…
Perhaps you are an artist who is feeling burnt out while trying to sustain creativity through oppression, perhaps you are a care-worker who wants to feel fulfilled in your activism or work, yet old relationship patterns and childhood wounds keep you stuck in a cycle of shame and dissatisfaction. Perhaps you feel you’re the only one queering the path to belonging and craving more “mutual flourishing” (Robin Wall Klimmerer) through a project, in your family system, or your relationships. You want to be more self-trusting, sustain relationships through conflict and diversity, build lasting chosen family, but you are not sure how to navigate it all. Maybe you’re afraid if you actually tended to yourself, took up space, stopped performing perfection, and set relational boundaries, you would risk losing what’s most dear to you. Begging for love in a language we didn’t choose can leave us exhausted, feeling hopeless, and alone. What if becoming more authentic while keeping your empathy for others, could bring deeper intimacies? More creativity and less lonely days?
I support queers & creatives who feel alone, swallowed by critique, crushed by racial capitalism, and cut off from mutual relationship, to find connection, aliveness, spirit, and joy.
HOW & MODALITIES OF SUPPORT
Through politicized nervous system practices & creative/expressive modalities, we will navigate the internalized cops in the body/mind, work through stuck family system and attachment patterns, and unearth your hearts true desires! I will always do my best to relate your experiences back to the social, cultural, historical spheres of influence that shape you and us. Lets get bold, silly, sturdy, soft, and more free while being rooted in our beliefs. I aspire to help you find ease, spirit, play, and hope to continue resisting and healing towards the just inner and outer worlds you dream of. I will support you to awaken vision, practice accountabilities, and find joy along the ups and downs. Most importantly, I work relationally. This means we will build a healing bond together and my intention is to offer you heartfelt and honest company on your path.
GUIDANCE & TOOLS
As a drama therapist, I support you to honor the multiplicity of the roles you play in life. This invitation is about accepting that all parts of us, serve as wise guides. We may utilize expressive arts approaches including embodiment/movement, perspective taking through drama therapy, improvisation, psychodrama, creative writing, visualization, play/humor, trauma healing somatics, the neuroscience of attachment, finding the right poem/song/ancestor quote to hold the moment, and more. Some people hear “drama therapy” and think it will be loud and performative. Sure, sometimes! This practice can also can quiet in the form of subtle metaphors, images, or imaginative prompts. It all depends on what your body needs that day, week, or year.
I anchor client relationships in resource, joy, and what brings endurance. My hope is to orient you towards more fully inhabiting your desires, mining the gap between value and action, all without performing perfection. I believe in your body’s innate wisdom to lead us. When in safe and brave company, this wisdom is bound to emerge. I hope these bonds we establish together, bridge you to many other spaces, communities, and webs in your life. Healing is an intuitive experiment, a field of possibility, all done in relationship.
HEALING IN THESE TIMES
I support folx to mitigate shame from harmful systems/environments that we live under and within, that we resist through. Living through late stage racialized capitalism and a cis-hetero abelist patriarchal paradigm, I honor that healing looks like compassionate harm reduction, resilience, and “care that is inseparable from resistance” as trans elder Miss Major teaches us. Healing is all that dismantles capitalistic and product centric frames of wellness, and instead defines well being by your own intuition & affirming communities. I am humbled daily and learning from the leadership of black, brown, indigenous women, queers, & trans folks who ancestrally and presently model this approach to care and liberation.
Especially for folks who have been historically and systemically excluded, undervalued, dehumanized, even tortured by the fields of “mental health”, I understand trauma healing to be a practice of remembering power. To remember that we all have innate healing abilities, the capacity for caring relationship, and strategic survival. I hope for us to all become re-enchanted out of colonial flattening, to become creative and capacious with what hurts, on the path towards a more healed world. I look forward to connecting with you to see if we may be a fit to partner along your path. Thank you for being here!
My ideas expressed here have been learned and shaped from many core influences including:
dean spade, adrienne maree brown, angela davis, alexis pauline gumbs, taya ma shir, leah lakshmi piepzna samarasinha, jessica fern, staci haines, Care of Erotics of Liberation, dr. jennifer mullan, devon price, Zoë April Poulette, travis alabanza, renee sills, chani nicholas, robin kimmerer, clarissa pinkola estes, my communities, liberation therapists & many teachers over the years, ancestors of earth, sea, sky, craft,all alongside my energetic imprint dancing with these teachings. For more on what informs my work, head to the education tab!
