In the māla or garden of your life, it is my hope to be a guiding steward to support you in uprooting the maladaptive narratives that hinder your growth, water the inherent gifts that resides within you, and witness the blossoming of the sacred living story that is you, rooted in strength and aloha.
Tending to the Inner Garden of one’s Soul
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My orientation to this practice is integrative; addressing the whole person through cross-cultural ancestral ways of knowing of health and well-being. A fundamental cornerstone in practice is storytelling, compassionate inquiry, working with nature/place, and utilizing intuitive intelligence to navigate the 'unseen' realms that may impact the connection to our sense of self and with others (i.e., our unconscious patternings and/or subtle energies)
Types of one-to-one offerings:
Integrative Counseling - discover more via my Psychology Today profile.
A therapeutic container that weaves my professional training(s) as a mental health counselor and lived experiences of reclaiming oneself from trauma, co-dependency, depressive/anxiousness states, and other symptomologies with the expressive arts, storytelling, nature, and cross-cultural wisdom traditions of the old.
Well-being Coaching
As health is on a continuum as defined by you, we explore the domains of well-being, identify + resource our strengths, and (re)define new stories that move one towards wholeness.
Guided Imagery & Inner Journey Exploration
Let’s go on a journey utilizing vibrational soundscapes and mindfulness practices to engage the senses and access the living wisdom within to guide us back to our innate truth.
Holistic Healing through Complimentary Energy Medicine
To harmonize and balance the energies within and around an individual to promote health is an ancestral technology. This is administered through various methods like laying of the hands, toning, tapping, prayer, and breathwork to clear stagnation and revive one’s vitality and frequency (mana, prana, chi, ki, spirit).
“Mai ka piko o ke po’o a ka poli o ka wāwae, a la ma na kihi ʻehā o ke kino”.
“From the crown of the head to the soles of the feet, and the four corners of the body.”
Education, Training, & Mentoring:
As not all knowledge is taught in one school, I am grateful to grow alongside Community Leaders, Peace Advocates, Wisdom Keepers, and earth-honoring Stewards such as; Uncle Gigi Cocquio, Aunty Puanani Burgess, Uncle Glen Kila, and my supervisor, Dr. Patti Isaacs.
Also, to my first mentor on the path, Susan Pullen, who encouraged me 'to know what I know'; Uncle Douglas, who reminded me to 'love completely'; my grandmother, Noemy Lobo, whose love for an enspirited life was my foundation; and to our youth of the next generation, who continue to teach me by simply being themselves.
Thank YouMaster’s in Counseling Psychology - Bastyr University
2018
EMDR Trained
2023
2023
Mental Health First Aid (Youth)
Building the Beloved Community - Aunty Puanani Burgess
2022-2023
Ka Maka ʻInana (Design in Hawaii Context) - Purple Maiʻa
2022
Private Client, Energy Clearing, 2023
“Aloha Ana! Want to say thank you for everything. Appreciate the detail with my clearing. You touched on some very vivid memories of my childhood. Times where I felt very much isolated and misunderstood…Also, mahalo to recognize a masculine energy…the only image i received at that time was this ancestor… ”
Private Client, Inner Journey Work, 2021
“You do amazing work, I am so grateful! I was definitely surprised at just how deep and profound your work truly was. Today I felt the foundational tectonic plates of my soul moving and grinding - Soul quakes. You are among the most deeply, profoundly peaceful spirits I’ve encountered. You have been instrumental in the healing that has occurred within myself.”