About

Lissa’s bio:

Lissa is a meditation and somatic facilitator, psychiatric nurse practitioner, and death and grief doula whose offerings include mental health care (psychotherapy and/or medication counseling), dharma, mindfulness, and heart and body-centered practices.

Lissa identifies practice as a deep form of love and care and offers practices that are compassionate, embodied, and trauma-responsive for the wellness and liberation of all beings.

All beings are welcome in this space including:

• Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) and Multi-racial people

• Queer, Ace, Aro, Trans, Non-Binary, and Gender Expansive people

• Disabled folks, people with chronic pain and chronic conditions, and still coviding folks

• People who resonate with body size diversity, body neutrality, and body acceptance

• Creative, highly sensitive, intuitive and neuro-sensitive/divergent folks

• People interested in mindfulness, embodied, contemplative, ancestral, and Buddhist practices 

• People committed to justice and liberation for all beings

Please know that you are welcome as you are.

Lissa’s Specialties:

• Anxiety, Depression, Mood, and Shame and Self-Loathing

• Grief in all its varying forms, Bereavement, Loss, and Death and Dying

• Trauma including Acute, Complex, Identity-based, Oppression-based, Attachment-based, Intergenerational, and Collective

• Mindfulness Meditation, Dharma, Ancestral, Nature-based and Somatic/Embodied Practices

• Mental Health Medication Monitoring

• Holistic, Integrative, and Nervous System Care

It is Lissa’s intention to work collaboratively with folks to create supportive plans of care.

Resources:

• Mental Health Resources & Check In
• Body/Trauma, Somatic Therapy, & Trauma Healing Information & Resources
• Integrating Mindful Movement and Embodied Practice in Daily Life Information & Resources

Ways to Connect with Lissa:

• Practice/Work with Lissa ~ Offerings and Video Library
• Connect via Lissa’s Newsletter and Instagram
• Current clients can use the portal.
• Folks interested in potentially working with Lissa are invited to a brief complementary zoom chat and can fill out this Care Inquiry Form.
• If none of these options work, feel free to send a message.

Supporting Lissa with Dana:

•Offering care to yourself and the collective is a form of dana (generosity) that means so much to Lissa
•Also, if you feel so moved, you can offer dana to Lissa via the video library, venmo, or paypal. Thank you!

Lissa & Embodiment/Dharma:

After finding refuge in nature-based, spiritual, and embodied practices at an early age, Lissa began a dedicated practice in the dharma, meditation, yoga, and intuitive movement in 2008 and qigong in 2018. Lissa integrates mindfulness and embodied radical care to their practice and their offerings.

Practicing mindfulness and the dharma in daily life as well as on short and long retreats has been deeply nourishing for Lissa. They have over 300 days of residential silent meditation retreat practice. Lissa studies Vipassanā (Insight meditation) and the Brahmavihāras (four immeasurables) as their primary path with influences from Zen.

Lissa has been a sangha (community) facilitator since 2016 and has been supporting insight meditation retreats with mindfulness and embodiment guidance since 2019.

Awareness, openness, curiosity, devotion, care, and connectedness are at the heart of Lissa’s practice. Lissa appreciates supporting folks to recognize and honor the needs and wisdom of their bodies as well as to practice freedom in every moment of presence available.

Lissa’s trainings include:

– Dharma: 2025-28 IMS/Spirit Rock retreat teacher trainee
–Nursing: long-time nurse raised by an amazing long-time nurse; bachelor’s (BSN), master’s (MSN), and doctorate (DNP) degrees
– Trauma: Somatic Experiencing Practitioner (SEP) & SE Assistant. Sensorimotor Psychotherapy (SP I). Trauma-Informed Stabilization Treatment (TIST I). Indigenous Focusing-Oriented Therapy (IFOT). Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing (EMDR)
– Grief & Death: doula & art-assisted grief therapy trainings and death awareness practice
– Yoga: E-RYT 500; chair, gentle, hatha, physiyoga, prenatal, restorative, trauma-informed, & yin
– Mindfulness teacher certification, Qigong 200-hour teacher certification, InterPlay certification, Pilates 350-hour mat & reformer training, & Personal Trainer certification

Thanks & Acknowledgments:

Lissa is deeply thankful for the innumerable offerings of care received through practice and the many beings who have supported them on the path. Lissa offers this gratitude list as the beginning of an inexhaustible list of beings to give thanks for. Lissa also honors the roots of their practice stemming from Africa, Asia, and Indigenous communities.

Land acknowledgments are complex and incomplete. Lissa is thankful for the Native Land Digital living document map which honors the sovereignty of Indigenous nations, lands, and waters. Lissa has primarily lived and worked on the unceded lands of the Munsee Lenape. Lissa is deeply grateful for their stewardship and holds space for the ongoing unspeakable joys and sorrows that are part of their experience.