I bring a deep sensitivity to my work. I have spent a lifetime transforming my own suffering. I now seek to offer support to individuals who are ready to explore their own cultural and generational trauma within a nurturing and healing space.
My many years of experience and training in somatic movement education and therapy, massage therapy, and hypnotherapy, have also been a part of my deep transformational healing path.
I am a Certified Hakomi Therapist. Hakomi is a refined method of psychotherapy that includes the non-verbal somatic expression of the body.
My fascination with the nervous system has led me to focus my practice on mental health and trauma. Years of being a bodywork practioner and movement educator informed my evolution to focus on somatic counseling with respect for the body's natural ability to heal itself. I have a keen interest in working with clients with anxiety, CPTSD, treatment resistent depression, and psychedelic therapy integration.
I have also spent a lifetime working with and communicating with ecosystems and watersheds to heal and regenerate them from harmful practices. Utilizing regeneration and sustainable land use management principles has allowed me to subsequently participate in transforming organic farming practices within ecosystem regeneration, which cultivate less disruption of the natural world.
I understand the impotance of the nourishment and connection needed between humans and the natural environment. I have been able to reinforce ecosystem healing in an Indigenous way, to listen to the needs of the land, and the successive balance within all communities.
Outside of one-on-one sessions, my desire is to craft safe group containers for authentic expression and nervous system regulation within community, for healing, based from Joanna Macy's group grief healing circles.
I warmly welcome all communities of color and diversity. If you are ready to embrace transformation and healing, I am here to support you, or your group, to greater connectedness.
"Rowan helps her clients access their own body-based inner wisdom so that they can find answers that are right for them and their life. Approaching difficulties with curiosity and self-compassion allows us to transform and heal, and to connect to new resources"
Certified Hakomi Therapist
Retired Licensed Medical Massage Therapist with 50+ years of practice.
Washington State Counseling Hypnotherapy License - 2021 to present
Somatic Movement Practitioner - 5 year training with the International Somatic Movement Education and Therapy Association (ISMETA) 1996-2001
Internal Family Systems - Level 1 completion - 2020
BA/BS Environmental Science & Education with and emphasis in watershed regeneration and sustainable land use management - 2011
Minor in Ecopsychology: The study of the relationship between human beings and the natural environment through both ecological and psychological principles.
Permaculture Design Certificate New Zeland 2005-06
Community Supported Agricultural practices California, Oregon, Washington 1973-2013
Food Desert Community Foodship design with Rainier Beach Urban Farm and Wetlands - 2010-2013
2 + years with “IndigenEyze” - A women’s + LGBTQIA leadership training in British Columbia First Nations network which is an ongoing training that teaches how to speak to decolonizing, oppression, generational trauma, individual trauma, for communities and families, through traditional methods of learning and through current practices in learning how to speak to colonizing mindsets, world view, and how oppression operates in the day to day within communities of color and greater communities - 2021-2023
Traditional knowledge & Indigenous healing practices with Elders in ceremony and sweat lodge, fasting camp, longhouse Indigenous sacred teachings. Plant Medicines - harvesting/gathering/preparations/uses - ongoing