Somatic Mindfulness Therapy
This gentle yet powerful exploration invites compassionate awareness that listens deeply to the wisdom of your body, where your story lives beyond words.
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Nervous System Healing
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Parts Work
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Trauma-Informed Care
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Liberation Healing
Nervous System & Relational Attachment Healing
When we experience stress or trauma, our nervous system activates survival responses—fight, flight, freeze, or fawn—to keep us safe. Fight may show up as irritability or defensiveness, flight as anxiety or overworking, and freeze as numbness or feeling stuck. These automatic patterns, shaped by past experiences, can make it difficult to feel safe and regulated in daily life.
We can learn to shift out of survival responses into calm, regulated states through practices like deep breathing, mindful movement, and safe connection. These practices help foster greater emotional balance, resilience, and deeper relationships.
Attachment healing addresses how early relationships with caregivers shape trust, security, and self-worth. If emotional needs were met inconsistently or harmfully, relationships in adulthood may feel anxious, avoidant, or unsafe. Therapy helps recognize these patterns, develop self-compassion, and create new, secure ways of connecting—allowing for more ease, confidence, and fulfillment in relationships.
Exploring your Parts
Internal Family Systems (IFS) is a powerful therapeutic approach that helps you understand yourself as a system of different “parts,” each with its own feelings, needs, and motivations. When you feel stuck, overwhelmed, or conflicted, it’s often because different parts of you are pulling in opposite directions—one part might want change while another part feels scared, or one part might be critical while another feels deeply wounded. IFS helps you recognize and connect with these parts from a place of self-compassion, so instead of feeling controlled by self-doubt, anxiety, or shame, you can begin to understand why these parts show up and how they’re trying to protect you.
Through this process, you can gain more clarity about what you truly want, heal past wounds, and feel more integrated within yourself. Rather than feeling at war with different aspects of your experience, IFS helps you create a sense of inner balance, where all parts of you feel heard and supported. Therapy can guide you in developing a strong, calm, and compassionate core “Self” that leads with confidence, helping you navigate life with greater ease and authenticity.
Liberation Healing
Liberation healing acknowledges that personal struggles don’t exist in isolation—they are deeply connected to the social systems we live in. Many forms of distress, including anxiety, depression, and trauma, are shaped not just by personal experiences but also by systemic oppression, such as racism, homophobia, transphobia, fatphobia, and ableism. Traditional therapy often focuses solely on the individual, but liberation healing recognizes that societal injustice plays a major role in mental health. By naming and validating these experiences, therapy becomes a space where you don’t have to internalize blame for struggles that are, in part, a response to oppression. Instead, you can explore how these external forces have impacted your sense of self and begin reclaiming your power.
Liberation Healing is a decolonial and anti-oppressive approach to therapy which helps you unlearn harmful narratives imposed by dominant culture and reconnect with your authentic self, cultural roots, and community. Healing is not just about coping with oppression—it’s about resisting it, finding your voice, and creating space for joy and self-acceptance. Therapy can support you in building resilience, processing identity-based trauma, and fostering self-compassion in a world that often devalues marginalized identities. In this work, your experiences are honored, your emotions are validated, and your healing is seen as an act of liberation, not just for yourself, but for the generations that come after you.
Psychedelic Integration
Explore the terrain of non-ordinary states with skilled therapeutic support.
Psychedelic Preparation and Integration Therapy is designed for individuals who are preparing for a psychedelic journey or processing one they’ve already completed. Working with a trained therapist can help you form meaningful intentions, stay connected to insight, and reduce potential harm. These sessions offer a grounded space to explore insights, emotions, and challenges that may arise, supporting your ability to bring extraordinary experiences into everyday life.
Through mindfulness, somatic awareness, and compassionate inquiry, we work together to translate moments of expanded awareness into lasting growth and healing. I offer psychedelic preparation, sitting, and integration support for legally available medicines in jurisdictions where it is permitted. My role is to provide a safe, trauma-informed environment that supports you in preparing for, experiencing, and integrating these journeys.
Margot offers a welcoming space for those who may feel misunderstood or uneasy in traditional healthcare settings. Trained through the Polaris Insight Center, as well as with Indigenous healers, elders, and wisdom keepers, Margot has studied the power of plant medicine and psychedelic experiences. With a wealth of resources, worksheets, and personal experience, she supports clients through worldview-shifting experiences and challenging “bad trips.” Her care honors ancient wisdom alongside modern science.
Please note: I do not provide or administer psychedelic substances.
Ready to Dive In ?
I offer a free 15-minute consultation to all clients so you can ask questions, learn more about my approach, and feel out whether we are a good fit.