YOU ARE…
A high-achieving changemaker
Realizing that logic and being so “in your head” are keeping you stuck, overwhelmed or unsatisfied
Desiring to connect more with your body and creativity
Longing to trust your self and a higher purpose
Yearning to take yourself and your healing less seriously and play more!
Committed to radical transformation, personally and collectively
Ready for something beyond talk therapy, online webinars or trying to “figure it out” on your own
Motivated to disrupt patterns of numbing or avoiding parts of yourself to “function” in oppressive and misaligned systems
Feeling like an imposter at work, in relationships or in your life overall
Experiencing paralysis or stuckness when making decisions or commitments
Regularly feeling fatigued, burned-out, anxious or depressed
Constantly “in your own head” to little satisfaction or connection
Feeling at war with your body
Unable to reliably soothe or regulate your emotions and/or nervous system
Watching your life pass you by without you being an active creator in it
Feeling heavy and burdened by the healing you need
Clarifying and embodying your values and purpose in the spaces you exist in
Effectively consulting other sources of wisdom beyond logic that are available to you
Having practices and rituals to regulate your emotions and nervous system
Accessing more spontaneity and synchronicity
Deepening intimacy, awareness and pleasure in your body
Being more trustworthy and trusting in your own word
Expanding your compassion with various parts of yourself and in all your relations
Feeling playfulness and levity in this life-long journey of healing and liberation!
Why am I here to alchemize with you?
As a highly vata libra sun, an intellectual, and lover of logic, I know both the superpower and suffering of being stuck in my head.
Peace beloved, it’s Chetna.
I’ve followed my calling to be a therapist and I chose a path outside of licensure. Colonialism puts logic on a pedestal and invalidates our intuitive, Spirit and body-based intelligences. Yet, healing and creativity go faaar beyond western psychology, individualism and white supremacy. I cannot deny the mysticism in this work; I seek to disrupt oppressive systems that prioritize rationale as the determinant of value, effectiveness and legitimacy.
This space is highly therapeutic, cathartic, and transformational, though it’s not “therapy” as it’s regulated or defined in the west. Here, we play with ourselves, we honor the prosperity already present, and amplify the inheritance you have to alchemize your life ✨ with and in spite of the systems we live in.
In a proprietary process of
Creative Alchemy™
I walk with you from the limitations of logic
to a trustworthy stewardship of a higher
heart-full mission through the processes of:
60-minute individual sessions:
1:1 - $225 / session
Include a partner, friend, family member or comrade in any sessions:
Partner - $285 / session
FAQs
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I've been in private therapeutic practice for 7 years. I've worked with hundreds of people and dozens of organizations and groups face to face. Thousands of people around the world have been impacted and moved by my art, writing and learning spaces.
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My clients are highly motivated and committed to personal growth and collective liberation. They run the gamut and at this point, I’ve worked with the following professions:
~ Academics / Researchers
~ Racial Justice Advocates
~ Non-Profit Administrators
~ Ayurvedic Practitioners
~ Community Organizers
~ Project Managers
~ Environmentalists
~ Doctoral students
~ Authors / Writers
~ Holistic Coaches
~ Entrepreneurs
~ Psychologists
~ Doctors / MDs
~ Birth Workers
~ Death Doulas
~ Visual artists
~ Sex workers
~ Therapists
~ Musicians
~ Educators
~ Attorneys
~ Parents
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My intentional decolonizing practice within my profession began when I chose not to get licensed as a therapist under the BBS. My first experience in therapy was when I was living in Cali, Colombia; in this room, we built alters to grieve and release the wounds I carried around my mother, and my therapist's attuned and respectful touch helped me experience spiritual and embodied healing. I also knew that my therapist was going through a divorce, and appreciated connecting human to human, even as she held her integrity as a healer.
This set the tone for how I see and practice healing, how I use my own humanity, heart and self-disclosure as an important practice for trust, hope and dismantling the "expert-patient" hierarchy embedded in white supremacist approaches to therapy.
My life experiences as a queer creative, immigrant, settler giving reparations, third culture kid, collectivist-raised, divorced South Asian, South African, American femme have cultivated my world view and greatly inform my work.
I'm not for everyone. I work with highly motivated clients who are committed to personal and collective transformation and liberation, and want to live a creative life in accordance with their divine assignment. I've found that when there is alignment, both my client and I know and sense that there's great possibility here.
I refer anyone else out to trusted therapists/healers in my network who may be in better alignment.
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From what clients have reported and what I've focused on, you can expect to:
Trust more in your self, your body and your intuitive wisdom
Protect space for your yin, rest, deep listening and slowness
Identify and fortify a guiding force in your life that you believe is greater and more divine than you and your logic
Witness and celebrate how divinely favored and supported you are
Represent yourself more boldly in various contexts in your life
Have difficult conversations with resilience, compassion and confidence
Transform your relationships through how you hold yourself and your emotions
Play more and engage in your creative pursuits
Own and control what you can within your agency, and practice letting go to allow divine forces to work in your favor
Interweave experimentation and creativity in your day to day, work and relationships
Move more swiftly out of lack, poverty and scarcity mentalities
Find strategic and tangible ways to generate wealth in all forms (mentally, physically, financially, emotionally, spiritually)
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This system has grown from both modern science, like mindfulness, self-compassion, Somatics, expressive healing arts and CBT, and ancient mystical wisdom like Yoga philosophy and the 7-Chakra system within my lineage.
We engage the mind with important and relevant education in biology, psychology, ecology and spiritual frameworks, and through applied practice, play and expression, my clients embody and integrate the education as a way of being in their daily lives.
The process is adapted to each client.