carework education

2025 UPDATE PENDING

Continuing education reflective of a commitment to my own shadow work & subconscious de/reconditioning to be in better relationship with my own marginalized experience and the experiences of those I am in community with, be that personal or “professional”. (I’m an Aquarian with a Sagittarius stellium—iykyk—there’s a lot;) Emphasis on listing individuals over institutions as a practice of honoring what I consider my healing lineages, where able and where applicable.

The following education is supplemented by additional personal research and call-ins from both community and my spirit parliament, which guide me in building greater discernment and capacity for accountability to my values of the abolishment of colonialism and the establishment of communal care capable of healing its wounds. I recognize the ultimately adversarial and counterinsurgent nature of the non-profit industrial complex and academia to those values and am grateful for the individuals listed below (and not listed) who have kept me grounded in something closer to integrity within those spaces.

For more information on my education through lived experience & my bodymindspirit services, visit here.

Continuing Education

2024

  • Healing Outside (& In-Between) the Medical Industrial Complex & Systems of Psychiatric Knowledge, Stefanie Lyn Kaufman-Mthimkhulu, koyotl xitlalli, tamara chacón, kay, darling, and Maria Alejandra with Project LETS

  • Working with Psychosis Using the Internal Family Systems Model, Sascha Altman DuBrul with ISPS

  • Topographies of (Dis)Connection: Re-membering Self, Community & Land, Institute for the Development of Human Arts (IDHA)

    • Grounding in Our Nature: Nurturing Relationships to Land and Liberation, Dr. Jude Clark and Dr. Lara Sheehi with IDHA

    • Embodied Justice: Physiology of Body-Mind-Spirit, Chloe Calderon Chotrani and Gabes Torres with IDHA

    • Uprooting the Lie of Separation: Trauma-Sensitive Survival Strategies, Langston Kahn and Selin Nurgün with IDHA

2023

2022

  • Decarcerating Care: The Evolution of Mental Health Surveillance, Adil Abdillahi, Azza Altiraifi, Yana Calou, TL Lewis, Shawna Murray-Browne & Selima Jumarali with IDHA

  • Cultivating Community: Creating the Conditions for Care, IDHA

    • Shifting the Healing Paradigm: Reclaiming Our Collective Nature, with D.M. Marchand-Lafortune and Eleni Zimiles

    • Equalizing Power: Mental Health and the Creation of the Common, with Ivelisse Gilestra and Carlos Padrón

    • Nourishing Relationships: Trust, Intimacy and Consent, with Dawn Serra and Kai Werder

    • Centered Belonging: Creating Space for Embodied Connection, with B Stepp and Norma Wong

    • Holding Difference: Moving Toward Liberatory Futures through Conflict, with Stas Schmiedt and Leander Roth

  • Decarcerating Care: Community-Based Healing Alternatives And How To Build Them, Aida Manduley, Vesper Moore, Yolo Akili Robinson, Gretchen Rohr, Anjali Nath Upadhyay & Mayowa Obasaju with IDHA

2021

2020

2016

HMI College of Hypnotherapy*

  • Diploma in Hypnotherapy (2016)

    • Nationally accredited, ~year-long, 300+ hour program with professional supervision

  • Certifications, American Hypnosis Association (AHA)

    • Trauma Recovery Hypnosis

    • Hypnosis for Immune Disorders

    • Hypnosis for Pain Management

    • Past-Life Regression Therapist

  • Continuing Education, AHA

    • Advanced Emotional Freedom Technique/EFT

    • Imagery for Life Passages

    • Spiritual Tarot: Hypnotic Applications for the Archetypes of the Tarot

    • Sigil Magic Imagery, Shara Prophet, C.Ht.

*My hypnotherapy degree is from a school in the colonially-called Los Angeles area, the global hub of New Age and white “wellness”. Like illness, like trauma, what was taught to me cannot be taken out of the context of the environment with which it exists, nor the identities of those largely creating its curriculum.

What they predominantly modeled for me is the subconscious healing that is possible when you are white, straight, cisgendered and middle to upper class, and generally not at odds with societal norms, which is not at all unlike the wellness modeled by the mental “health” field at large. I continue to be in a state of unlearning from it and other “self-improvement” programs that I sought out in attempts to deny and escape my own disabilities within a eugenicist society.

2010-2011

Peer Support-Related Volunteer Work

  • Institute for the Development of Human Arts (IDHA) 2023-2024 Training Committee

    • read my and my comrade thai Lu’s statement on our experience here

  • International Association for Pre-Menstrual Disorders (IAPMD) 2022-2023 peer supporter for a weekly support group for members of the LGBT2sQ+ community with PMDD/PME