Rosabacara is a relational healing and ethics practice devoted to those navigating plant medicine integration, trauma recovery, personal transformation, and the clinical, ceremonial, and organizational spaces where this work takes place.
Grounded in trauma-informed care and relational practice, and guided by embodied ethics, this work unfolds through relationship and integration over time, with individuals, practitioners, and organizations.
The Vision
Rosabacara is a space where healing and transformation unfold, both within individuals and across the relationships, practices, and systems that hold them.
This work exists for two interconnected purposes: to support individual and relational healing, and to help support the practices, spaces, and systems in which that healing takes place.
Rosabacara offers relational, ethical, and integrative care for those recovering from trauma, working with psychedelics and plant medicines, moving through transformation, and navigating the spaces in between.
Grounded in trauma-informed and relational practice, and guided by ethical discernment, this work unfolds through reflection and integration over time for participants, practitioners, and the communities that hold them. It lives in therapy rooms, retreat spaces, organizations, and the relationships that shape them.
Mistakes will be made. Boundaries will blur, and harm will occur. What matters most is how we respond: with accountability, humility, repair, and a willingness to grow and show up differently in what comes next.
Rosabacara is a living prayer for the spaces in between, where we meet, misunderstand, unlearn, and slowly learn to walk each other home.
It is the rise after the remembering.
The Name
The name Rosabacara is rooted in two plants: rose and mapacho (sacred tobacco). Each carries its own initiation, and guides a different kind of inner transformation.
Together they reflect the balance at the heart of Rosabacara’s work:
Tenderness with structure
Openness with discernment
Grounded integration
Heart-led care held within ethical boundaries.
Rose represents the heart. She is softness, grief, beauty, and emotional truth. She opens what has been protected for years and reveals the wounds that still long for care.
Though beautiful, she carries thorns. She makes it difficult to keep running from the parts of ourselves that still hide. She brings shadow to the surface not to shame, but to create the conditions for homecoming.
Through rose, we come into contact with the tender places shaped by love and loss. She teaches that healing is not about becoming stronger than our pain, but about learning how to stay present with it, with compassion, honesty, and care.
Sacred tobacco represents protection. He is self-leadership and sacred boundaries. He teaches structure and alignment through grounding, reminding us that growth requires containment.
Though associated with discipline, his integrity is not rigidity but self-love rooted in truth. He guides us back when we drift from alignment. He steadies what has been opened, ensuring what is tender is not exposed without care.
Through tobacco, we come to know discernment, alignment, and responsibility in healing work. He teaches that love without boundaries can wound, and that protection is not hardness, but devotion to what is sacred.
Held between these two teachers, Rosabacara is where these forces meet, in the tension between softness and responsibility, remembrance and repair. It is an orientation toward growth and integration, honouring embodied truth, vulnerability, and discernment, and supporting the gradual return to a more compassionate and integrated self.
At its heart, Rosabacara is a living prayer for remembering what was forgotten, grieving what was lost, and becoming who we are when we return to ourselves. It is the rise after the remembering.
In Reciprocity
As a white practitioner trained within Western clinical frameworks, my work through Rosabacara is shaped by traditions, medicines, and ways of knowing outside my own lineage.
I hold deep gratitude for the invitations into lands and spaces of learning with plant medicines, and for the guidance of Indigenous teachers, healers, and ceremonial practitioners, which has profoundly shaped both my personal life and professional practice.
A portion of what is received through Rosabacara is returned in ongoing support of Indigenous communities and land-based initiatives, as part of a practice of reciprocity, responsibility and respect.
About Ash
Ash is a licensed psychotherapist in Canada and a certified coach with over 15 years of experience supporting individuals navigating trauma, mental health and life transitions.
Her clinical work is rooted in emotion-focused, trauma-informed, and somatic approaches. She is certified in Emotion-Focused Therapy and serves as a Supervisor with the Institute of Emotion-Focused Family Therapy and in process of somatic certification. Her work also integrates parts-based, nervous system–informed, and depth-oriented modalities.
Ash specializes in the treatment of complex PTSD, eating disorders, OCD, and addiction, with a focus on the relational patterns that shape emotional regulation, identity, intimacy, and meaning-making across the lifespan.
Bridging Science and Self-trust
Alongside her clinical training, Ash has spent years in experiential learning with Indigenous cultures and plant medicines. What began as a professional interest evolved into a deeply personal and spiritual path. She has had the honour of learning from Indigenous healers within the Shipibo-Konibo, Mestizo and Mayan traditions, deepening her understanding of integrative healing across cultural and spiritual contexts.
These experiences inform her work, bridging clinical frameworks and neuroscience with the ecological and relational cosmology of traditional healing systems. Her approach is grounded in reverence for research-informed care and sacred traditions, with a strong commitment to safety, integrity, and ethical practice.
Lived Experience
Complex trauma
Navigating grief and loss
Spiritual exploration
Psychedelics and plant medicine
The Heart of the Work
Self-trust
Relational and attachment work
Nervous system support
Integration
How we hold what is tender shapes what becomes possible.
This work is held within an ongoing practice of reciprocity in support of Indigenous communities and land-based initiatives connected to plant medicines and the teachings they carry and share.
How we hold what is tender shapes what becomes possible.
This work is held within an ongoing practice of reciprocity in support of Indigenous communities and land-based initiatives connected to plant medicines and the teachings they carry and share.
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