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About This Session
There are moments when your body knows something is happening, but your mind hasn’t caught up yet. When the overwhelm has no clear source, but the weight is undeniable. When you’re drowning in sensation but can’t name the tide. The Saltwater Session is for that.
Grief doesn’t follow timelines or fit into the boxes we’re given. It shows up for everything - death, yes, but also dreams that died, relationships that ended, identities we’ve outgrown, and ancestral pain we carry in our bones. The Saltwater Session is sacred space for all of it.
This is not traditional therapy. It’s not surface-level check-ins. It’s not grief counseling that pathologizes your process. It’s emotional midwifery - being with you as something moves through your system, helping you navigate what’s emerging without forcing it into language before it’s ready. Sometimes the body speaks first. We listen.
This is not about “moving through stages” or “finding closure.” It’s about being witnessed in your grief, holding the weight with reverence, and honoring what you’re mourning as sacred. Your tears are not problems to be solved. They are prayers.
Unlike Anchor Sessions, this work involves deeper emotional terrain and somatic release. I work with whatever emerges from your body and nervous system in real time, which requires additional energetic labor and post-session integration on my part.
This is for you if…
• You’re carrying something you can’t name, but you feel the weight
• Your nervous system is activated but you don’t know why
• You need someone to be with you while you figure out what’s happening
• You’re overwhelmed but “fine” and tired of that contradiction
• You want support that doesn’t rush you toward solutions
• You’re ready to trust what your body is telling you, even when your mind resists
• You’re grieving anything at all - loss, change, identity, dreams, ancestors
• Your grief doesn’t fit the traditional models or timelines
• You need someone who won’t rush you toward “healing”
• You’re carrying ancestral or collective grief that feels too big to hold alone
• You want support that honors the sacred nature of your pain
• You’re ready to let grief move through you without shame
What this offers
• Real-time emotional recalibration as things surface
• Somatic awareness and nervous system support
• Deep presence without pressure to “figure it out”
• Optional integration of breathwork, grounding, or movement
• Post-session audio anchor to support integration
• Space to feel without having to explain or justify
• Cultural and ancestral grief support
• Ritual and ceremony integrated into the session
• Grief mapping to understand what you’re actually mourning
• Optional altar building or memorial practices
• Container for expressing grief in ways that feel authentic to you
What This Work Looks Like in Real Life
Scenario 1
Client came in feeling completely overwhelmed but couldn’t pinpoint why. She kept saying “I’m fine” while her body was clearly activated - shallow breathing, tight shoulders, fidgeting hands. We didn’t try to figure it out with her mind. Instead, we followed what her body was telling us. About 20 minutes in, grief about her father’s death two years ago emerged - grief she thought she had “dealt with.” Her nervous system finally felt safe enough to process what it had been holding. We worked with the grief somatically, let her body express what it needed to express, and helped her nervous system recalibrate. By the end, she could breathe deeply again. No rush to solutions, no pressure to “fix” anything - just presence with what was actually happening.
Scenario 2
Client came in six months after her mother’s sudden death, feeling guilty because she wasn’t devastated enough. Everyone expected her to be “grieving properly,” but she felt more relief than sadness - her mother had been critical and emotionally unavailable her whole life. She was carrying shame about not missing someone who had hurt her, plus grief for the loving mother she never had and now never would.
In session, we honored both layers - the grief of losing the actual person and the deeper grief of never having the mother she needed. We created space for her anger, her relief, and her sadness without judgment. She didn’t need to pretend to miss her mother more than she did, but she could mourn the relationship that was never possible. By the end, she understood that grieving the mother she didn’t have was just as valid as grieving the one she lost.
What makes this ceremonial therapy:
Traditional therapy has clinical distance - the therapist observing and treating from outside. Ceremonial therapy is me becoming an energetic vessel and co-participant in your healing space.
Each session begins with me clearing the energy and dropping into my body to become an actual anchor for our work. I may light incense, set intentions, or create other ritual elements that serve the session. This isn’t someone watching you from behind a clipboard - it’s me literally anchoring the container so you can safely fall apart, transform, or become whole.
I’m not just facilitating, I’m holding the energetic field. I’m present with my whole self, not just my training. This isn’t just a conversation - it’s a sacred container where your healing happens through intentional presence, energetic attunement, and spiritual grounding.
Every session opens and closes with ceremony. The space between us becomes medicine