Lissa’s bio:

Lissa is a meditation and somatic facilitator and psychiatric nurse practitioner whose offerings include mental health care (psychotherapy and/or medication counseling), dharma, mindfulness, somatic and grief/death resourcing, 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

Please note, this site provides reflections about wellness and related subjects that are not intended as medical advice or as a substitute for consultation with a healthcare provider. Also, feel free to check out Lissa’s creative writing and please attribute if sharing. 🙂

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, and yoga 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 retreats has been deeply nourishing for Lissa. They have spent over a year’s worth of time in 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:

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 honors the abundant roots their practice rises from including nature, ancient healing practices lovingly stewarded by ancestors and guides based in Africa, the subcontinent of India, China, and Indigenous communities, creativity, intuition, and somatic and trauma-based healing modalities.

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.

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