Independent Groups and Workshops
Making sense of things. Together.
I love groups because something different becomes possible when people gather with intention. Sometimes that means writing together, exploring an idea, or making room for a part of life that does not get enough attention. Sometimes it means psychotherapy.
I offer both, but they are separate kinds of work.
Therapy Groups
My psychotherapy groups are offered through Axis Mundi Center for Mental Health, where I practice as a Marriage and Family Therapist Trainee under the supervision of Elysha Martinez, LMFT 93493.
These are clinical groups for people seeking therapeutic support and may include deeper emotional and interpersonal work within a supervised psychotherapy setting.
Therapy groups will be listed here as they become available.
Independent Groups + Workshops
The offerings below are my independent creative, educational, and community-based work. They are separate from Axis Mundi and are not psychotherapy or mental-health treatment.
They draw from my background in poetry, writing, teaching, group facilitation, depth psychology, and community work. Some are structured workshops; others are ongoing circles or shared practices. What they have in common is curiosity, participation, and room for something more interesting than small talk.
Morning Writes
An 8-Week Generative Writing Circle
Eight weeks. Eight different doors into new writing.
Each week we begin somewhere different—with a poem, an image, a question, a fragment, an object, or something unexpected. We spend a little time with it, then write and see where it takes us.
This is a generative writing circle rather than a critique workshop. The emphasis is on making new work, following what surprises you, and getting past the place where you already know what you are going to say.
There is time to read aloud if you want to, but no critique and no pressure to arrive with anything prepared. Come with a project or come with a blank page.
Over eight weeks, we’ll write through image, memory, place, body, voice, desire, thresholds, and return—using each as a different way into the work.
I’m a poet with an MFA in Creative Writing, and I love the moment when a prompt opens something the writer wasn’t expecting. That is what Morning Writes is built around.
8 weekly sessions · $120
All genres and levels of experience are welcome.
Cosmic Crone
An 8-Week Archetypal Circle for the Second Half of Life
What happens when we stop treating aging as something to resist and begin asking what this stage of life is asking of us?
Cosmic Crone is an eight-week guided circle exploring aging, identity, creativity, change, and the archetypal possibilities of the second half of life.
Each week we work with a different image, myth, reading, or theme drawn from Jungian and archetypal psychology, poetry, folklore, and writers such as Marion Woodman, Clarissa Pinkola Estés, and Sharon Blackie. We use writing, reflection, creative exercises, conversation, and simple ritual to explore questions of loss, freedom, desire, invisibility, authority, transformation, and what it means to become more fully ourselves as we age.
Ritual might mean marking a threshold, working with an object or image, writing something to carry forward or leave behind, or creating a small symbolic act together. Nothing elaborate—just ways of giving form to experiences that are often difficult to name.
This is not a class about how to age “well.” It is a place to think, write, question, make meaning, and engage the strange and powerful territory of becoming an older woman.
No prior knowledge of Jung, mythology, or archetypal psychology is needed.
This is an educational and experiential circle, not psychotherapy.
All women welcome. Queer-affirming space.
8 weekly sessions · $150
The Odyssey
Guided Journey Through Change, Challenge, and Return
Some experiences divide life into a before and an after.
The Odyssey is an immersive writing and reflection workshop built around the ancient pattern of the journey: leaving what is known, entering unfamiliar territory, meeting what we find there, and returning changed.
Over the course of the workshop, we move through a series of guided experiences using myth, image, writing, conversation, creative exercises, and simple ritual. Participants work with their own material—an ending, a transition, a question, a change already underway, or simply the sense that they are somewhere between one chapter and the next.
We explore departure, resistance, allies and obstacles, descent, discovery, and return—not as a formula for how life is supposed to unfold, but as a way of seeing where we may be in our own story.
There is no expectation that you arrive knowing what your “journey” is. Sometimes that becomes clear only once we begin.
The Odyssey can be offered as a one-day intensive or expanded into a multi-day experience for retreats, organizations, and small groups.
This is an educational and experiential workshop, not psychotherapy.
My Approach
My facilitation style is warm, relational, and process-oriented. I’m interested in spaces where people can move beyond surface conversation and into something more honest and alive.
Some groups are quiet and exploratory. Others become emotionally engaged, funny, intense, or unexpectedly revealing. There’s room for complexity, strong feeling, and a little fire when needed.