Hi, I’m Stevie. I’m a Hakomi mindful somatics practitioner, cultural worker, and land-based teacher whose work centers around building belonging with land and place while critically engaging with the problems of ongoing settler colonialism and climate crisis. In my work I aim to center land as a sentient being and engage in deep listening and action towards ecological restoration and Indigenous sovereignty with the desires of the Earth. In support of these efforts I am the co-founder of Embodied Ancestral Inquiry, a somatics practitioner training for white Euro-descended body-based practitioners working towards a de-assimilation from whiteness through politicized somatic practice, reconnection with the more-than-human world, and reclamation of the precolonial Earth-based lifeways of their ancestors. I am also committed to local ecological restoration, particularly through the Deschutes Estuary Restoration Team (DERT) which has successfully advocated for the removal of the 5th Ave dam in Olympia, WA. This will be the largest urban dam removal project in the country when restoration begins in 2027

I’m also a doctoral student at Pacific Graduate University in the Depth Psychology with specialization in Community, Liberation, Indigenous, and Eco-Psychologies program.

At this point, I only work with a handful of folks privately through one-on-one containers including Somatic Counseling and Embodied Ancestral Inquiry. My books are currently full and I am not taking on new clients. The best way to keep up with my work is through my newsletter or through my writing on Substack, The Becoming.