I embrace complex healing and am comfortable being alongside deep distress.
Support services in the areas of substance use and relationship dynamics.
Who I am
My skills include risk management, mediation, trauma processing and systems navigation.
I curate deeply private transformative experiences using four elements – Assess for hazards and manage risks, Repair and mediate for more open communication, Immerse into your root cause traumatic experiences, and Guide as you implement change and embed insights.
I focus on building your competency and capacity in attachment and regulation – imagine being connected in real time, imagine feeling confident in your decisions and current in your relationships. Imagine the satisfaction of achieving resolution.
Over 45 years experience in violence and suicide prevention, conflict resolution, restorative justice and advocacy, and spiritual care.
What I Do
You can change your legacy in your lifetime. I offer a confidential no charge call to start. I put an hour aside to help you triage your needs. We can explore how my services might be a good fit for where you are in your journey to recovery.
My Basic package includes:
2 People – you and a trusted support
3 Assess – control risks
3 Repair – get resourced
4 Immerse – associate to integrate
3 Guide – reset your defaults
This represents about 40 hours over the course of four to six weeks. All Immerse sessions using psychedelic medicines are in person only.
Additional:
People: Extended family and supports
Preparation: Complex mediations, detox
Medicine: Compounded injury and illness
Implementation: Critical, timely decisions
Assess
Assess Vulnerabilities and Strengths
Where do you need help right now?
Substance detox and stabilization, access to lethal means safety planning, medical and/or social complications, neurodivergence (both innate and acquired)
Manage Risk
Repair
Repair Partnerships and Communication
Who else needs to be considered?
Partners, parents, siblings, children, relatives, communities and organizations, operational cohorts. Bridge some gaps and make connecting possible
Build Trust
Immerse
Immerse Psychedelic Supported Resolution
What makes this “use” different?
Years of traditional therapy can lead you to long for your denial back. Each new insight can feel more isolating than helpful. And, you already know there are no magic pills
Find Your Self
Guide
Guide Aligned and Attuned
How will you be different?
The integration happened and what matters now is implementing radical change. Disengage your defaults during this window of enhanced neuroplasticity. Claim new ground
Timely Decisions
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Acknowledgement – a critical skill
06.04.2023
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Influences – my values and sources
06.04.2023Models/Modalities/Theories: in no particular order, these are some of the places I’ve been in my decades of journeying to learn trauma resolution. I’ll be highlighting these going forward. This month it’s Organic Stretching – an amazing pain management system originating out of the University of Chicago and crossing my path on the shore of Bahia […]
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Highlights – CCTP course 2016/17
06.04.2023I take notes in class. This year long training resulted in my CCTP designation – certified clinical trauma professional. 2016 was the year “The Body keeps The Score” sort of broke open what was at the time a very narrow world for the treatment of traumatized people. Bessel made up the diagnosis of PTSD in […]
What people have to say
“What I look to in Ella is her practical yet compassionate approach, she carries ideals and a vision of how people can recover to live more peaceful, caring lives. She knows and appreciates diversity and can be at home almost anywhere”
Mary Alice Smith
co-founder of Turning Point
“I can think of several instances where Ella was able to turn a negative experience into a positive one. She has the gift of seeking out the truth about someone’s feelings, bringing clarity and hope to them. Her intelligence and wit combined with her education and experience can turn both a person and a situation around to a good way of thinking and living”
Lindy Clubb
researcher/writer
“Ella has the ability to explain things in a gentle way, avoiding negative reactions, creating a safe and healing atmosphere so people can learn and adjust to life’s issues. Two avenues aid in this - her education/training/skills, and her own self-examination”
Stan Williams
elder
“With her help, I have overcome some barriers to reintegration - very few people have the gift to connect with a wounded spirit and be of assistance. Ella has demonstrated the ability to support me while keeping her own balance”
Adele Breese
client
“Ella reflects exceptional gifts at integrating present learning with past insights, and with projections about future impact. Her integrity and reliability range in the exceptional category”
Bernie Wiebe
professor
“It appears to me that her intellectual gifts have been overlooked and misunderstood yet I expect her to make a major contribution to our world, namely by helping marginalized people and groups to be better understood by the rest of us. She is especially adept at understanding cultural phenomena which lie at the fringes of ‘normality’”
John Badertscher
professor
“This will come as no surprise to you Ella, very sensitive, highly intuitive, you convey a message of gentle care and grasp complex relationship dynamics very quickly and accurately. Quite open to all expression of meaning, you are a seeker and searcher”
Karen Toole
spiritual care provider
“Ella is one of those persons who can be very centered in her own beliefs while at the same time being able to stay centered and genuinely respectful of others' values and needs. Others find her easy to work with and trust her leadership in learning to value one another in daily interactions”
Barbara Date
professor
“Incredibly skilled at taking charge when everyone else is flailing, her confidence and experience with mental health disorders, treatment and services make her a passionate advocate and inclusive specialist. She believes that healing is possible”
Faith Newsom
client
I look forward to hearing from you.
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