Headshot of Nat with nose and septum piercings in front of ocean(some sand and stones in the background, wearing dark blue hoody, glasses and a dark yellow beanie that says "You're On Native Land"

Welcome! It is so great that you found your way here. My name is Nat, I use they/ them/naya pronouns.

In my work life I am a container builder of move-meant and sound, somatic co-liberator of trauma, body tender, a bridge maker for alternative relationship dynamics, birth keeper, co-conspirator of reparenting our parts as well as someone who supports folks on their parenting journey.

I am dedicated to the healing and transformation from the impacts of childhood, intergenerational and birth trauma, legacy burdens, and the violence of cultural separation and displacement. I believe in anti-carceral approaches to mental health care. I believe in the radicalization of cultivating deep intimate relationships within our homes (body), dismantling the indoctrination of individualism and rewiring what it means to co-lean towards one another as resistance to this empire that purposely works at keeping us apart and disconnected with self and each other. I believe that our liberation is the threat to these systems.

I am descendant of the first people of the Caribbean, Taino Boricua and Sicilian from the diaspora, enrolled in Higuayagua Tribe. Originally born and raised on the East Coast. I am queer, biawaisa (2spirit) and autistic. I’m a single parent of three wildly inspiring unschooled children. Parenting and healing are political, and was a very intentional chosen path for me. It is the most important responsibility and work I have ever done. I am a forever student of plant medicine, the chef in my cocina, an artist, gardener of space and landscape, and sacred intimate at heart. I come from seven generations of my soul ancestors at my back. It is my calling to share my/this medicine, as a collective from those before me, and those after me in the powerful return to our sovereign body.

My Approach

“Have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves…” Rilke

Building trust requires a slow burn. Consent sits at the center of it all as we explore and learn how to embody autonomy and agency, how to locate and identify sensations, emotions, yeses and no’s and say them out loud. We are learning, together, how to manage dysregulation. Trauma has a way of erupting and part of this practice is moving at a pace your nervous system can handle. It’s called titrating -little sips at a time. This is your space and time. I meet you exactly where you are.