Tracy Sachs (Singh) (she/her)

Grief and loss come in many forms. It can come in the form of a death of a loved one. It can also arrive with a dream crushed, a relationship ended, or a decline in health. Sometimes grief lives in us because we did not receive the love and care we needed as children. It can also be experienced as collective grief about the state of the world and the ecological realities of our time. However it arrives, we will tend to grief's sorrow and rage with reverence so that joy can be experienced again.

Spirituality and soul-centered work offer profound and powerful ways of creating meaning and purpose in this embodied human life. These modalities offer ways to connect to and expand capacity for the great mystery of existence. I am a life-long spiritual seeker and have found various spiritual practices and philosophies, such as Yoga, astrology, mythology, and deep reverence and ceremony for the cycles of the moon and seasons.

In our current patriarchal society, there are very few models for how to be a strong, feminine woman. With a lack of obvious models and archetypes to draw from, women often either take on the masculine hero's journey as their own or feel disempowered and weak. By drawing upon myths and archetypes, we can explore the heroine's journey of feminine power and apply it to the lived realities of life in areas such as motherhood, career, relationships, marriage, boundaries, and purpose.

Depth psychotherapy aims to address what lies hidden under the surface. Most of our memories, desires, and self-knowledge is locked away in the unconscious, and therefore we remain a mystery to ourselves. Depth psychotherapy helps shines light on the shadows of our psyche into order to reintegrate them as part of our consciousness awareness. We can access the unconscious through symbols, archetypes, mythology, poetry, art, dance and ritual. Soul, spirt, source, and psyche are often integral.

The body doesn’t lie. When we pay attention to the signals of our body — flutters in the belly, chills up the spine, the urge to run, etc.— we learn a lot about the state of our nervous system and how safe (or not safe) we feel. Through somatic exercises, we can release what has been stored in the body through traumatic experiences, and learn to restore our sense of safety. Furthermore, with keen bodily awareness, we can gain greater trust in our own intuition and reclaim agency and empowerment.

Early childhood experiences shape our personalities and strategies for relating to other people. When these early experiences with primary caregivers do not feel secure, attuned, and safe, children develop strategies for coping that later can become maladaptive in adult relationships. I can offer support in transforming these early attachment wounds so that your adult relationships are not at the mercy of old patterns that no longer serve you.