Our philosophy

Serving survivors from within

Our work at Mokwa centers on guiding clients through their trauma — not via the limited lens of any single modality, but by empowering survivors to become agents of their own liberation.

FRAMEWORK + APPROACH

Reclamation through Reconnection

The effects of child sexual abuse make manifest from the chambers of our deepest heart.

This systemic devastation destabilizes us from our very foundations, estranges us from the rootedness of our being, and leaves us unable to decipher the ancient language of our own intuition.

Of the dangers we face within our inner landscape, the most destructive is the insidious poison of isolation. This corrosive toxin eats us alive from the inside out, leaving us emotionally starved, mired in shame, and numbed by the enormity of our pain.

serving survivors

Our work at Mokwa.org centers on guiding clients through their trauma — not via the limited lens of any single modality, but by empowering survivors to become agents of their own liberation.

We believe reconnection with the ecosystem of the self is the ultimate expression of embodied peace, and that by reintegrating these relationships — between mind, body, heart, and soul — fragmented by abuse and trauma – the human spirit has the innate ability to repair itself.

By creating a space for open expression — simple, pure, and true, from one survivor to another — we can begin the process of healing ourselves, our relationships, and our communities.

our values

the mokwa model

An approach grounded in wholeness

  • Mental

    By cultivating awareness of the ingrained thought forms that distort the mind, we create space. In this place of mental clarity and openness, we learn that we are not our thoughts, but the space between them. We cultivate curiosity around our thoughts, and learn to engage them with patience, non-judgement, and compassion.

  • Emotional

    By understanding the rich tapestry that is our personal emotional patterning, we learn to healthily relate to our emotions, and begin to extend the space between emotional stimulus and response. In so doing, we reduce emotional reactivity, and the power of our past to color our present. By making emotionally mature choices as adults that honor our experiences as children, we begin to heal.

  • Physical

    By reuniting the energy systems of the body through somatic practice, communion with breath, and physical passion practices, we experience organic release of the long-buried trauma that lives stored within our tissues. By incorporating self-care practices centered on unburdening the body of physically carrying our unresolved pain, we create a relationship with our bodies based on trust — healing the estrangement created as a result of our sexual abuse.

  • Spiritual

    By acknowledging our personal responsibility to honor the unique manifestation of spirit within us, we accept our sacred duty to serve the highest good — both for ourselves and for the ecosystem of the world. Rather than adopting any specific belief structure prescribed by culture, tradition, or expectation, we choose to engage and connect with the transcendent beauty of life, in order to acknowledge, process, and transmute the effects of our trauma.

  • Behavioral & Relational

    By allowing awareness to guide our conscious choices, we nourish ourselves and our relationships. By intentionally overriding inculcated patterns of maladaptive behavior rooted in our past, we attempt to restore our lost sense of healthy self-regard, love, and respect. By integrating our understanding — and bringing all we have learned to those we love, we deepen and better our relationships with family, close friends, and romantic partners.

MODALITIes + TOOLS

Treatment Framework

The Mokwa Model™ was created to bring forth a paradigm shift in the treatment of sexual abuse — from a medicalized model, focused on diagnosis and disease, to an empowerment model that supports survivors holistically.

Manifested in the form of a flexible framework that address the multifaceted areas of life fragmented by childhood sexual abuse, each path is co-created with the survivor to reflect their experiences, desires, and self-defined goals.

Results Rooted in Etiology

Systemized to reflect each facet of a survivor’s mental, emotional, physical, spiritual, and relational life, survivors begin their journey where they are in the present – with the opportunity to explore each element of their being as sessions progress.

Put simply, The Mokwa Model is intended to disrupt the current, self-perpetuating system. In place of callous disregard for the human spirit, and a system centered on the never-ending treatment of symptomology, the Mokwa Model focuses on the root cause — the etiology of trauma for so many — childhood sexual abuse.

ONE SPIRIT + MANY PATHS

Training & Experience

I’ll be the first to admit I don’t fit neatly into a box –

Though that once filled me with fear, shame, confusion, and uncertainty, I now embrace it as a point of pride.

I consider myself an educator, adventurer, and a multidisciplinary creative — and move fluidly between these roles and spaces.

Whether you call me a trauma guide, peer support specialist, or an integration expert, what I most hope to be called is a helper and friend. My role is to serve as a compassionate mirror on your journey of self-reconstruction, self-knowledge, and self-healing. I use every moment of my life, each avenue of awareness and experience, and every bit of education, to share what I know in hopes of bringing about organic, deeply felt changes in survivors’ lives — at every level of their being.

It is my honor to serve as the architect of the new self you hope to build.

Become an agent of your own liberation