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You might also connect with: Complex Trauma, C-PTSD & Inner Child Healing (if developmental trauma patterns resonate) · Motherhood, Matrescence & the Mother Wound (if you're a mother healing the mother line) · Depth Therapy for Mystics, Healers & Spiritual Seekers (if you're navigating spiritual awakening)

What I Specialize In

I'm a licensed therapist in California working with Dagara medicine and ancestral healing, clearing generational trauma, healing mother and father wounds, and breaking cycles of inherited suffering.We're at a time on this planet where many people have incarnated specifically to do lineage work. The Pluto in Scorpio generation carries this particularly strongly, but it's not limited to one generation. If you're reading this, chances are you're one of them. You didn't come here by accident. You came here because someone in your line needed to stop the bleeding.I work with people who are the black sheep, the sensitive one, the "too much" one in their family. People who feel like they're carrying grief, rage, or shame that predates them. People healing mother wound or father wound, who have gone low or no contact but still carry the weight, who are mothers refusing to pass wounds forward, who understand they're here to do ancestral repair.My practice is called Fourth House Therapy because the fourth house is the taproot: where we hold ancestors, childhood, and emotional inheritance. You cannot reach the 10th house (legacy, public work) if your taproot is diseased.

The Black Sheep Is the Family Diviner

In Dagara culture and many indigenous traditions, every family has a diviner, a medicine person, someone who interfaces with the spirit world. This is normal. Expected. Honored.In the West, we pathologize this.The family diviner becomes the black sheep. The one who feels too much. The anxious one. The depressed one. The one who can't function in the family system because they're absorbing everyone else's unmetabolized trauma.Your sensitivity isn't a disorder. It's your medicine.You're the one who feels what hasn't been processed. The grief your grandmother couldn't grieve. The rage your father couldn't express. The shame that's been passed down for generations.And because you feel it, you're the one who can alchemize it.

What Is Ancestral Healing?

Ancestral healing acknowledges, grieves, and clears what you inherited: trauma, silence, shame, survival strategies that were never yours to carry.It works on three levels.Psychologically, we look at how your parents' wounds became yours, how survival strategies got passed down as love.Energetically, we clear absorbed emotions and ancestral patterns stored in your body and field.Spiritually, we work directly with ancestral spirits, calling in the ancestors who walk in the name of healing and love to repair what's broken.This isn't metaphor. This is real work with real beings.When lineage repair begins, energy starts to move. What's been stuck in your body, anxiety, depression, chronic pain, shutdown, begins to alchemize. You're not just healing yourself. You're clearing the line.

The Fourth House: Your Taproot

The fourth house represents your foundation, your emotional inheritance, the family you came from, the ancestors you carry.If your taproot is diseased, carrying unmetabolized grief, rage, shame, trauma, you cannot rise into full expression, build legacy, or thrive.You have to tend the root before you can grow the branches.

You Are the Cycle Breaker

You're the one who said: no more.The first to go to therapy, name the abuse, break the silence, choose differently for your children, leave the family system.This is lonely work. You face resistance, grief for the family you'll never have, guilt for "betraying" the lineage, isolation.But you're not betraying anyone. You're refusing to pass the wound forward.My mentor, Dr. Maria (Mia) Hetényi, calls this being a "holy outsider," the one who stands outside the family system to heal the lineage.

The Mother Wound

The mother wound is pain passed from mother to child across generations.It shows up as feeling unseen by your mother, chronic criticism or emotional neglect, enmeshment where you were her therapist or caretaker, carrying her unprocessed grief, rage, shame, repeating patterns you swore you'd never repeat.The mother wound isn't always about your actual mother. Sometimes it's about the mother she never got to be, the mother her mother never was, the mothering you needed but never received.You can love your mother and grieve what she couldn't give you. Both are true.

The Father Wound

The father wound is pain passed from father to child across generations.It shows up as an absent, emotionally unavailable, or abusive father, never feeling good enough, chronic shame or unworthiness, carrying his rage, silence, or addiction.You can hold him accountable and grieve what broke him.

How I Work

This work is relational and spiritual at its core. We work with parts work to meet the inner child and the protector parts, grief tending to create sacred space for what was lost, dreamwork to listen to what's still unresolved in the lineage, and astrology to map the 4th house taproot, the mother and father lines, Saturn, the Moon, the IC, and the ancestral signatures written into your chart.The Dagara ancestral healing practices I carry from my training with Dr. Hetényi, including divination, ritual, and direct spirit work, are woven throughout. If you're called to go deeper into that work specifically, that lives on the Dagara Divination page.When lineage repair begins, energy starts to alchemize. What's been stuck begins to move. You're not just processing your own experience. You're clearing the line.

What Healing Looks Like

This work is not about forgiving before you're ready, pretending harm didn't happen, or "getting over it."It's about seeing clearly what was done, grieving what you didn't get, releasing what isn't yours, calling in ancestors who walk in love, breaking cycles with compassion, and healing so your children don't carry this weight.

Who This Work Is For

✓ Black sheep who came here to do lineage work

✓ Feel like you're carrying grief, rage, or shame that predates you

✓ Understand your sensitivity is your medicine

✓ Gone low or no contact but still carry the weight

✓ Mothers refusing to pass wounds forward

✓ Feel called to work with ancestors and spirits

✓ Want ancestral healing that's spiritual, not just psychological

✓ Ready for ritual, grief tending, and lineage repair

✓ Know you incarnated for this work

Related Work You May Resonate With: Complex Trauma, C-PTSD & Inner Child Healing · Motherhood, Matrescence & the Mother Wound · Depth Therapy for Mystics, Healers & Spiritual Seekers · Pluto's Realm: Shadow Work, Sex, Death & Transformation

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