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, empaths, 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. I believe healing is about retraining our capacity and receptivity to listen, to attend, and to witness what already is so- that we are whole. 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 are taught to forget that the sacred is integrated in our every moment. 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 queerness, our radical creativity, and our collective thriving.
I support folks resisting social and political corruption that says non conformativity is a moral threat. That to be our ecological and expanded selves is a form of destruction. I believe the way we subvert control, binaries, and false moral mandates is a personal, interpersonal, and collective healing river we all can be in together. I like to think of healing as a collective field we all participate in, not a goal or an individualized pursuit, not something to do, but something to practice being. In this healing container I hope to foster this partnership to practice this being. I am another human endlessly curious about how we fall apart, and come together, and fall apart, and come together. I aspire to help us to be enchanted and grounded in this. Rather than asking how can we fix and deeper pathologize our fragmentation, this space asks, how might we honor it?
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 relationships 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 embodied 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 we 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 bond together and my intention is to offer you heartfelt and honest company on your path.
GUIDANCE & TOOLS
I am a drama therapist, which means 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, improvisation, psychodrama, creative writing, visualization, play/humor, finding the right poem/song/ancestor quote to hold the moment, and more.
I am an intermediate level trained somatic experiencing practitioner, and I deeply believe in your body’s innate wisdom to lead us. When in safe and brave company, this wisdom is bound to emerge. I utilize trauma healing somatics, the neuroscience of attachment, and the language of physiology to guide us. As you might have noticed, I enjoy words. Sometimes the art of finding the right language to capture and organize our experience can change our course.
I hope to anchor client relationships in resource, joy, and what brings endurance. I strive to orient you towards more fully inhabiting your desires, mining the gap between value and action, all without performing perfection.
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, liberation, and the world that is to come.
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. 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, andrea gibson, alok, hala alyan, taya ma shir, bayo akomolafe, leah lakshmi piepzna samarasinha, jessica fern, staci haines, mara june, 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, ancestors of earth, sea, sky, craft,& many teachers over the years. All this alongside my energetic imprint dancing with these teachings. For more on what informs my work, head to the education tab!
