How I Work

"You are not a problem to be solved. You are a soul to be met."

The Heart of It

At the core of this work is the relationship. The connection we build between us, the trust, the safety, the vibe that develops over time. That's what allows the deeper work to happen.

When you feel genuinely seen and heard, not managed, not assessed, not fit into a box, something shifts. Real healing tends to start there.

My approach is warm, collaborative, and non-judgmental. I welcome all your weird, wacky, unmasked, and unexplored parts. I'll meet you where you are and stay curious about where you're going. Together we explore your experiences, your story, and the patterns that have shaped your life. Not to pathologize them, but to understand them from the inside out.

The relational foundation is always present, but it doesn't always look the same. With some people, the relationship itself is the primary vehicle. With others, it's the container that makes everything else possible, and we're working through dreamwork, parts work, somatic tracking, ancestral healing, divination, or astrology within that foundation. I follow what's needed.

What Informs My Work

My approach is integrative. I draw from multiple traditions and orient toward what fits you.

The ground my work stands on includes relational and attachment perspectives, psychodynamic and depth psychology, Jungian and archetypal frameworks, transpersonal psychology and psychosynthesis, somatic psychology, energy psychology, and intergenerational trauma and epigenetics. These aren't a checklist. They're lenses I move between, often within a single session, depending on what's alive in the room.

Running through all of it is the Neurocomplexity Resource Theory, developed by therapist Lindsey Mackereth. This framework understands a person as a dynamic, living system that shifts depending on available resources at any given time: what's happening in the nervous system, in relationships and environment, and in the realm of meaning and spiritual grounding.

I'm not working with a fixed diagnosis or a static picture of who you are. I'm working with you as you actually are in this season of your life, with whatever your system is carrying right now.

I'm not looking for what's wrong with you. I'm interested in how your system has adapted, what it learned, what it's still protecting, and what might be possible with more support.

What We Might Explore Together

Sessions follow what's actually present. Depending on where you are and what you need, our work might include:

  • Depth and relational work. Exploring the unconscious patterns that drive your emotional life and relationships. What you inherited, what you developed to survive, and what's ready to shift. I work with your personal mythology: the stories and symbols that have been shaping your life, sometimes without your awareness.

  • Parts work and shadow integration. Meeting younger parts, protective parts, the exiled aspects of yourself that got buried somewhere along the way. This includes shadow work, learning to recognize and reclaim what was rejected or hidden. I use transpersonal and shamanic-informed approaches to work with inner fragmentation at a depth that cognitive processing alone doesn't always reach.

  • Somatic work. The body holds what the mind hasn't finished processing. We pay attention to what arises physically, sensations, breath, the places you hold tension or go numb, and use that as a doorway into deeper work. I move at your nervous system's pace.

  • Dreamwork. Dreams are one of the most direct lines to the unconscious I know. If you're a dreamer, we can work with what comes through at night as an ongoing thread. Not to interpret prescriptively, but to listen to what the psyche is trying to metabolize.

  • Ancestral and intergenerational healing. Many of the patterns we carry didn't originate with us. They were passed down through families and lineages, survival strategies, unmetabolized grief, relational wounds, often showing up in our bodies and lives without a clear origin story. We honor what's been inherited and create space for something different to emerge.

  • Dagara divination and ritual medicine. When the ancestors and spirits have something to say, we listen. Divination opens the channel between you, your lineage, and the elemental beings devoted to your path. Ritual prescriptions root the insight into your life, not just your understanding.

  • Energy medicine. I work with the energetic field as a natural extension of the mind-body connection, grounding, clearing, and building energetic boundaries. This is especially relevant if you've spent years absorbing other people's emotions and have lost a clear sense of where you end and others begin.

  • Astrology as a sacred map. I integrate astrology as a tool for understanding your deeper patterns, your cycles of growth and challenge, and your soul's evolutionary themes. Your chart is a blueprint of the consciousness and medicine your soul came here to embody. We use it to make meaning and recognize yourself.

What This Is

This work is deep, sometimes slow, and it asks something of you: engagement, honesty, a willingness to sit with discomfort while we figure out what it's saying.

I work from a holistic, decolonial, and transpersonal framework. That means I actively challenge the tendency to pathologize human complexity and reject the idea that there's a one-size-fits-all model for healing. It also means I take your spiritual experiences seriously. Awakenings, ancestor contact, non-ordinary states of consciousness. These are material worth exploring.

If you've spent your life feeling too complex, too layered, or too outside the mainstream to be truly understood, this practice was built with you in mind.

Some people come for focused, intensive work and move on. Some come in and out across different seasons of life. Some are here for long-term depth work that unfolds slowly over years. There's no right way. It depends on you, where you are, and what you're working with.

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Hi, I’m Stephanie Brumfield

Hi, I'm Stephanie Brumfield. I'm a psychospiritual depth therapist, astrologer, initiated Dagara diviner, shamanic practitioner, ancestral healer, and priestess of the rose lineage. I'm a perpetual student. I can usually be found shuffling between multiple books at once or on a research deep dive.

I am a mother, a grounded mystic, and a divine child. I'm deeply attuned to the subtle and sensitive aspects of life. I believe in the power of energy medicine and nature healing, and in the interconnectedness of healing oneself and the collective.

I'm a proud cat lady and 90s grunge is the soundtrack to my life.

Licensed Therapist in California, Holistic Therapy & Spiritual Support

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