Integrating Body, Mind, Spirit, and Environment
I'm passionate about guiding you curious seekers toward embodying your sovereignty and integrity in your relationships. By connecting with your body wisdom and with Spirit, you can live a more joyful, easeful life. I'm on a mission to support individuals like you to create community.
My Roots
I was born to parents from opposite ends of the American diaspora. My mother, the daughter of missionaries and a descendant of Choctaw lineage; my father, a nuclear scientist from the Midwest. When my mother passed away, I was ten and I quickly became the emotional bridge in a household marked by mental illness and grief. That was when my search for wellness began, not just for myself, but for anyone who’s ever had to hold the weight of others before learning to hold their own.
I left home at seventeen and began studying human behavior through the lens of criminal justice and deviant psychology, curious about what drives both harm and healing. I wanted to understand suffering and what it takes to become whole again.
The Elements of My Healing Perspective
Over the years, my path has revealed itself through the four elements: Mind, Body, Spirit, and Environment. Each has been both teacher and mirror, guiding me toward what I now call Existential Humility: a way of being that honors both our human limits and our infinite belonging to the Great Mystery.
The Element of the Mind
My first doorway was the mind, the vast landscape of thought, emotion, and perception. I earned my Master’s degree in Psychology and began working as a therapist, exploring the intersection of cognition and behavior. Psychology confirmed what I had always sensed: that healing requires both courage and context. I have never lost my curiosity about the mind-body connection and have studied a multitude of techniques and philosophies about it.
Learning about the mind taught me to ask questions, not to control life, but to participate in it. Through study and practice, I came to see how the brain and body are inseparable, each responding to the other in constant dialogue. My intention is to create rhythm in my thoughts, emotions, breath, and movements.
This understanding continues to shape my work: that insight alone is not enough; it must be paired with compassion, curiosity, and the courage to grow. My work supports the cultivation of wisdom, flexibility, and discernment—helping the mind become a collaborator in personal growth and belonging.
The Element of the Body
The next teacher was the body — sacred, intelligent, and alive with memory. I trained as a massage therapist and later became a Naturopathic Doctor and midwife, spending 17 years in clinical practice supporting women, mothers, and families through birth, healing, and end of life.
My medical studies in anatomy, physiology, and homeopathy deepened my respect for the body’s natural wisdom. Birth work, in particular, taught me awe — the same kind of awe I would later encounter learning about end of life care. Both experiences invite surrender, trust, and reverence for Great Mystery.
In every cell, there is intelligence. The body knows even when our mind doesn’t.
Through embodied and medical support, I help restore relationship with the body as an ally, addressing disembodiment, burnout, and the loss of trust that occurs when the body has been ignored, overridden, or medicalized without reverence.
The Element of the Environment
When my Seattle clinic closed, I turned toward the Earth to help my heart sing. In the garden, I found reflection and renewal. Through my studies in permaculture, I affirmed what I had known all along: that everything is interconnected. Every system, whether in soil, society, or the human heart, depends on relationship.
The land reminded me that regeneration takes tending, time, compost, and care. The garden became a sacred classroom where decay and rebirth coexisted in harmony. I realized healing is a cyclical, communal, and ecological process.
Being made of stardust, I saw that we are the same matter as the air, water, fire, and Earth. Science and Spirit remind me of this truth. When I tend to my own healing, I participate in the healing of the whole and recognize my value and my belonging.
Summoning the Erotic
The erotic is the juice of the Divine Feminine. This highly charged lubricant is found in the container of our yonis. In fact, the greater the paradox we face as women (and those who love them) in daily living, the greater is the potential to potentize and amplify our erotic nature. We were born for this.
Our middle world, colonized society, has for thousands of years centered our focus on the masculine, which has over the past several hundred years lost its connection to the Divine Masculine, leaving our culture in a state of chaos, abuse, and isolation.
The erotic is our connection and lubricant to our sovereignty, to our verve and purpose in life. The erotic is our direct connection to divinity.
From our very dynamic and most obvious origins of our beginnings, everybody came to Earth through a womb. There is no greater physical manifestation or metaphor of creativity equivalent to choiceful conceiving, gestating, and birthing another human being.
As the seat of our power, our erotic natures can celebrate and harness the chaos, isolation, and abuse. We can in a most dynamic transformation, eat and compost the chaos, abuse, and isolation as red hot sacred rage, our alchemical juice for our individual desires and the desires we hold for the world. Our world needs our erotic nature.
Aboriginal people call this the Beauty Way. I dream and pray of the days when women find and actualize their pleasure. The evocation of the Beauty Way comes through somatic movement, which invokes and evokes the alchemical shift of fertility forces to meet our individual pleasures and our desires for the world. We’re moving away from fighting against to fighting for our pleasure as a divine right. Our world needs our pleasure.
Learning about our intimacy, our desires, confronting our fear and shame, learning to feel our bodies, dancing, praying, ceremony, actions of self-agency, and pursuing the highest good for all is what we want. This is what I teach; I guide us to the Beauty Way.
The Element of Spirit
Eventually, my curiosity brought me home — back to my Choctaw and Chickasaw roots, and to my Lakota teacher, Char Sundust at the Sundust Oracle Institute in Seattle, and Matilda Laughingwaters. Through their guidance, I remembered what my mother had once shown me through dance and ceremony: that Spirit lives in everything, and our role is to stay in right relationship with Her.
Spirit is a way of life. Embracing prayer, ceremony, and gratitude engenders a powerfully supported relationship to the Unseen. Spirit continues to be my teacher, inviting me to walk with presence and reminds me to listen deeply.
Through Spirit’s support in my shamanic practice, I help restore your sense of belonging and orientation. By addressing ancestral connections, building relational scaffolding, and honoring your quiet aloneness, we can find our place within the living world.
Integration:
A Whole-Systems Approach to Healing
Today, my work bridges medicine, psychology, permaculture, and spirituality — a whole-systems approach that honors the interconnectedness of body, mind, environment, and spirit.
I work with those who find themselves at the edges. People like you, who desire growth and have stagnation, or if you’re overwhelmed or navigating emotional, mental, or spiritual dysregulation. I work with people who are neurodivergent. I work with the ones who have always sensed that their path would never fit the norm. Many of my clients are seekers, mystics, and thinkers who ask the questions others avoid. People willing to look within, rewrite old narratives, and create new ways of being.
I often say: I feel like a round peg trying to fit in a square hole.
Can you relate? What if the parts of me that I’ve kept hidden — my sensitivities, my curiosities, my contradictions — are not obstacles to my healing, but invitations into my healing?
Whether through mentorship, ceremony, or group work, I walk alongside you if you are ready to:
Reclaim your voice and agency
Explore your trauma with compassion
Integrate spiritual and psychological growth
Embrace the fullness of your humanity, even the parts that you once shamed or silenced
The foundation of my work is shaped by the four elements that have guided my own life:
Mind: Rooted in psychology, relationships, and human behavior
Body: Informed by 17 years in naturopathic medicine, midwifery, dance, and sexuality
Spirit: Grounded in indigenous teachings and divine feminine and feminist psychology background
Environment: Guided by permaculture and systems design principles
Healing is relational. It happens when you and I remember the threads that connect us to our own body, mind, spirit, to one another, and to the living world.
I help you walk that same bridge, from wanting to sovereignty, and to trust that the unexplored has potential to be sacred ground.
My Services
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Mentorship
A one-with-one relationship journey that bridges psychology, somatics, and spirituality to help you reconnect with your body’s wisdom, release old patterns, and embody new ways of being. Each session weaves science and spirit to guide you toward clarity, wholeness, and sovereignty.
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Ceremony
A sacred, experiential place to honor life’s beginnings, transitions, and completions. Blending prayer, ritual, and indigenous teachings, Ceremony invites you to move energy, reclaim belonging, and align your healing with the cycles of the Earth and your own becoming.
What Clients Are Saying
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Afia listened beyond my words - she heard my heart and my energy. It was masterful, really. Her reflections were precise, healing, and often infused with just the right touch of playfulness. Even months later, the session continues to guide me. It has been a lantern through my big emotions. It reconnected me to the deeper Self within that knows “All is well.”
-Ziona, Ceremony Client
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I am glad I found Afia in this last chapter of my life. Afia has helped me come home to myself. I am at peace.
-Gail, Mentorship Client
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After the tragic death of a dear friend, I came to Afia to do a ceremonial session. Afia created a space that allowed me to move beneath my heartbreak and access the deeper wisdom of my body. That in and of itself was so healing, as grief is an emotion that often puts my body into alarm. It can be flooding, and I shut down. But with her presence and guidance, I was able to soften and move into my grief with a lot of grace and sovereignty. I felt powerful.
-Kinsey, Ceremony Client
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Through our work, I’ve expanded my capacity to slow down and be present, to ground myself, to show up with care for both myself and others. I’ve learned to identify limits, communicate boundaries as I find them, and share the wisdom I’ve gleaned with those navigating obstacles she once helped me through.
-Trinity, Mentorship Client
Let’s work together
If you feel called to work together, let’s begin with a free discovery call. This is a space to connect, ask questions, and see if my offerings align with your journey.