A Beginning, Not an Answer

Rosabacara was born in response to something I’ve felt deeply as a client, participant, apprentice, and therapist: a need for spaces that can hold the meeting point between Western therapeutic approaches and traditional and Indigenous ways of healing.

There were moments in my own process where something didn’t feel right, but I couldn’t tell if it was part of the work or something I needed to question.
That blurring between vulnerability, trust, and discernment is something I’ve come to understand more deeply over time, and it’s part of what shaped the creation of this space.

As these worlds come together, often faster than our collective understanding of trauma, mental health, and plant medicines can keep pace, we are also living through a time of significant change. Existing systems are being questioned, and new ways of understanding and supporting individual and collective healing are emerging.

My own path through these spaces has included both meaningful healing and moments of confusion, misalignment, and deep reckoning. As a therapist and practitioner, I’ve had to confront how easily discernment can become blurred when powerful experiences, authority, vulnerability, and meaning-making converge. What I’ve learned along the way has shaped not only how I support others, but why I felt the need to create something like Rosabacara.

Rosabacara exists for two interconnected reasons.

It is devoted to those seeking to heal and transform outside of conventional Western models, with or without working with plant medicines. You are met wherever you are in your process, including the parts that feel uncertain, unfinished, or in between.

It also supports practitioners, teams, and organizations holding space for others. Those willing to ask deeper questions, stay with the discomfort of not having clear answers, and grow practices, programs, and systems that reflect the complexity of healing and transformation in the world we live in.

This work unfolds through learning and unlearning. It involves making mistakes and responding with humility, care, and accountability. It unfolds through collaboration, and through the messy middle of this process, where things are still unfolding.

Rosabacara is a relational healing and ethics practice that supports this work across these layers.

Whether you are here for your own healing, for integration and support, or for consultation or training, you are welcome here, exactly as you are, wherever you are in your process.

In this space, you’ll find reflections, resources, and offerings that support both personal and professional practice, alongside conversations that explore ethical questions and stories that speak to the depth, beauty, and transformation that emerge in these spaces. This includes acknowledging the realities of the messy middle on both the participant and practitioner sides, and offering considerations for how to move forward when rupture or harm inevitably occur. I’ll also share about my own personal experience of healing complex trauma within both clinical and shamanic systems, and what I’ve learned along the way.

The Ritual Library is still unfolding, with more to come.

If this work resonates and you’re interested in working together, through 1:1 support, consultation, or training, you’re welcome to reach out.

This work is rooted in remembering who we are and coming into a deeper understanding of ourselves, rather than trying to fix what was never broken.

This work lives in the remembering, and in what rises from it.