my story

I come from a long lineage of healers and spiritual seekers. Among my modalities is a formal education in transpersonal psychotherapy. I weave together my studies in various world religions and spiritual practices with psychology, with a focus on indigenous wisdom and plant technologies.

I work from a perspective that humans are simply another species in our earth family, and help people reconnect with their animal nature, their wildness. I am a student of several indigenous ways, with my deepest work being studying with indigenous Amazonian elders in the Peruvian curanderismo tradition. I am drawn to ancient practices of magic, mysticism, and animism, and find kinship among the witches of the world.

I walk between two worlds - the world of shadow and the world of light. I believe that by bravely and gently entering into that which we fear the most, we discover the keys to the self-love and self-compassion we are yearning for and always look to others to give to us. As a warrior of the light I believe the only way to unconditional love is through the darkness.

I am an artist and creative. I dabble in most everything in the visual and multimedia arts. I am a musician, singer, and songwriter, using my voice to honor my ancestors and connect to Great Spirit. I work with the medicine of mischief and invite play, humor, and lightness into every aspect of life.

I spent my post university life on a spiritual quest for understanding my place in the world. I have cared for young children, supported countless individuals through altered states of consciousness, spent a few years losing and then finding myself in the start-up world of San Francisco, and more recently studying at the feet of the divine mystery.

I am multiracial, calling many European ancestors my own as well as my ancestors of the Choctaw, Chickasaw, and Cherokee nations. I am on a lifelong journey to reconnect to a sense of place as someone who is both from these lands and has lands called home oceans away. I identify as Two Spirit, a gender-expansive identity that my indigenous ancestors have inhabited for many generations. I am on an ever-deepening journey to understand what reparations inside my own lineage can look like.

I was born and raised in the redwoods and continue to live among the fairies and animal kin in the North Bay. You can often find me wandering through the forest communing with the trees, singing devotional music, making a new vegan recipe, or playing with my dogs.

My studies

MA in Integral Counseling Psychology from California Institute of Integral Studies
BA in Studio Art from University of California, Santa Cruz

EMDR Trained Therapist with EMDR HAP (in progress)
IFS-Informed with the IFS Institute (in progress)

Reiki Level 1 Training with Stacey Butcher
4 years studying under indigenous Amazonian elders in Peru

Christina Gore
Registered Associate Marriage and Family Therapist
AMFT #137636

Supervised by Jesse Westfall LMFT #115587