Services

Work with Kineret

Licensed therapist/ coach

I am a sensitive, creative, mystical, earth-centered licensed social worker who draws on blend of healing modalities to meet you where you are at. I integrate evidence-based approaches into intuitive arts-based, land-based and dreams-based processes. Above all, I am committed to listening with you and following the lead of your soul.

My main areas of focus are:

  • Those who are grieving and desiring accompaniment, and those who may wish to create grief ceremonies and rituals to support their grief;

  • Those who are seeking to create/ to be held in rites of passages or initiations to mark important transitions;

  • Those who are at important life turning points, including loss of faith, religion and tradition or reclaiming new ones;

  • Those who feel the burden and gift of artistic vision but aren’t sure how to bring it into the world;

  • Mothers/Stepmothers/Bonus mothers and Fathers/Stepfathers/Bonus fathers in complex blended families, who are doing the hard work of blessing their children/bonus children, especially in very painful situations;

  • Adult children who have lost connection with a parent and who feel grief for that loss;

  • Women without biological children of their own who are seeking to forge lives and live legacies rich with beauty and meaning; and

  • Those who want to explore the meaning of their dreams, communications from nature, communications with ancestors, and intergenerational traumas, legacies and burdens.

LMSW Texas licensure #: 113766

Ceremonialist

Ceremony is poetry made visible; it is the deep honoring of our ancestors, our faith and the practices that have found us. It is our connection to what we hold most dear.

I work with individuals, couples, families, and communities to mark the sacred moment of a birth, a lost child; a child’s naming, a coming of age; a marriage, a divorce; moments before death, the final parting.

I am especially called to co-creating ceremonies that we don’t have known containers for yet (or perhaps have forgotten):

  • Ways to mark re-commitments to a new beloved, especially when there are children involved who we want to feel bonded to in love

  • The crossing into one’s season of motherhood, fatherhood, or parenthood especially when it does not come about in the usual way, especially when there is grief and loss

  • The stepping into elderhood, even as we imagine what they might ask of us

  • The acceptance of loss

  • The welcoming of new found freedom

I would love to help you create the ceremonies for your life events that you know you need to mark.

Way of Council Facilitator

The council circle is a sacred space—one where we rekindle the ancient tradition of speaking, listening, and healing together.

I have led more than 75 council circles in person and online, for Zen Peacemaker International groups, for youth and teachers in schools, for medical professionals working on the frontlines of the Covid-19 pandemic, and for participants of Zen Peacemaker’s Auschwitz and Native American bearing witness retreats.

I am available to share this practice with you, your family, your organization and your community.

Poet & Writing Coach

Poetry is not just about language put down on a page and shared. It is a posture of leaning into the lovely and the forbidden; a disappearing act into the river that flows beneath all the rivers of the world, untraceable, at the heart of it all. And then, all at once, it is the sudden re-appearance above ground, a little leaf germinating from roots I thought were dead, full of offering.

Treat yourself to a plunge into the mystery of our lives with my first book of collected poetry: You are the Answer to the Dreams of Your Ancestors.

If you have a deep love for words and for sharing them and need support to write, edit and self-publish, I would love to hear from you.

Visual Artist

Mixing water and color, brushing paint onto paper, throwing clay and handbuilding life forms are a place where deep retreat and full engagement intersect for me— bringing forward something from a place beyond words.

I have a body of artwork and ceramics for sale, and am available to create commissioned pieces that are functional and ceremonial for you and your family and home.