"Sienna is a beautiful embodiment of the complexity and vastness of womanhood. This alone is a gift to all of the girls and women who have the fortune of working with her. I experience Sienna as having a stunning depth of spirit, heart, and intelligence...I wish her well and will happily send clients her way!"
-N.B., Psychotherapist
"The world is calling for feminine wisdom and power to rise up and Sienna holds a space in circles that helps facilitate this energy coming into being. She embodies the qualities of Kali Durga's "fierce compassion" and helps woman and girls cultivate this energy in themselves which leads to increased self-worth, self-esteem, and confidence, allowing them to rise above their fear and bring their gifts to the world."
-P.T., Psychotherapist
Individual Sessions
I hold sacred space for the unfolding of the mystery – that which we do
not yet know– providing an opportunity for you to deeply listen and
learn from yourself, your inner wisdom and guidance. To hear what your
emotions are telling you, what your numbness needs in order to feel
safe, what is asking to be seen, heard and healed. I incorporate
guided imagery/meditation, Rieki energy work, somatic awareness,
creation of supportive rituals and awareness of the sacred. Clients
have come to me and have been referred to me often because they see
that I offer something other than traditional talk therapy. They are
looking for tools and wish to build resources to address what is
happening in their present life.
Fees: $85 for a one hour session, $120 for an hour and a half.
I offer a sliding scale of $65 - $80, based on income and need.
I believe in the power of counseling to assist people to get through challenges and to grow to be fully who they are - strong, powerful and at peace. I am willing to find a fee or barter arrangement that both creates a fair exchange and that makes my services accessible to all.
I also offer partial to full scholarship options for all groups, circles, and workshops for those people who would otherwise be unable to attend.
Honoring Rites of Passage
At times we find ourselves in a place where we don’t want to be and don't know how to get out of or even how we arrived there in the first place. We feel stuck, maybe scared, angry, despairing. And this may be a place that we seem return to, where we find ourselves ending-up again and again. This place may be a “wrong” relationship, a sense of hopelessness or criticalness of ourselves or life. This may be a place of anger or a negative view of the world, a sense of feeling lost (again), out of balance, out of integrity with our deepest truths.
This is a place of Rite of Passage, where we pass through the
darkness of the unknown, the difficult, the deep feeling, and come out to another place – a newness, a new pattern, new view, new sense of self that is truer each time.
Yet, it takes a consciousness of this passage, this transformation, to make it affective. There is a need for honoring this time and allowing the process to work through fully – listening, witnessing and being attentive to what is clearing away and what is unfolding anew.
Groups and Circles
I offer both therapeutic Groups for Teen Girls and for Women as well as Rituals and Workshops for female groups and mixed gender.
Groups are on-going, weekly or biweekly, with a smaller number of
participants, between 4-10 members. Groups usually are focused around a certain area of healing (i.e.: supporting transition, self-esteem, substance abuse, relationships) and are more talk based. They
incorporate sharing of experience, witnessing, guided imagery/
meditation, journaling.
Circles also incorporate dance, movement, voice, rituals. Circles can
meet on-going regularly (weekly, biweekly or monthly) or as a one time
event, much like a workshop. The structure of a Circle communicates an implicitness of spiritual connection and sacredness and opens us up to working with our personal material as well as the collective material
(that of all of womanhood or girlhood, manhood or boyhood, humankind).
