Hello there fellow traveler! I’m Sye (They/Them).
INCANTATIONS
Sparks of our liberatory nature are always within and around us, awaiting our attention. Systems of oppression and domination, push for our disconnection from this nature, by severing us from each other and the earth, from presence. We become fragmented from our essence through indoctrination into patterns of colonial avoidance, shame, punishment, and individualism. White supremacy held up be abelism and imperalism, work to obscure our empowerment, our bold queerness, our radical creativity, and our thriving. How do we find ourselves, find us again?
I support folks seeking how we might find our way back towards reconnection, worthiness, authenticity, and belonging. Journeying together, we remember that we CAN be with this heartbreaking and beautiful worthwhile world. We can re-enliven through healing our nervous systems organic impulses, harnessing our creative potential, and deepening awareness of our interconnectedness through the struggle. To resist and live. Together we find the practices to navigate through what is painful & sustain what is joyous about being alive. My practice holds this prayer, and I invite you to join in this, that we may all get free! And, as Bell Hooks reminds us, “we don’t heal in isolation”. We don’t get free, alone.
MY STORY:
My name is Sye, I am a white-bodied, nonbinary, queer, neuroqueer, anti-zionist ashkenazi jewish healer, living on the unceeded ancestral lands of Huichin and Ohlone peoples. I am credentialed as Registered Drama Therapist and somatic practitioner. I strive to show up as my authentic & connected self, with the hope of inviting you to do the same! You may find the below a longer share, and it is my hope that this helps you feel into my way of being in the world, to determine if there is some resonance for a therapeutic partnership. Thank you for being here and for your curiosity!
RELATIONSHIPS & INFLUENCES
For me, therapeutic relationships and collectives that celebrate dimensionality and creativity are at the heart of aliveness & repair. Healing is an intuitive experiment, and it isn’t manulized. I have been on a healing journey by calling back the parts of me that have been weaponized, oppressed, extracted from, and withheld from ancestral rooting. I hope for us to all become re-enchanted out of colonial flattening, to become creative and capacious with what hurts, on the path towards a more healed world. My process has included a lifetime of dance, theater arts, trauma healing, eco spirituality, and lots of play through the hard stuff. I am another human doing my best as I practice decolonizing, reconnection, and queering/claiming the meaning of healing back from grip of oppression. I believe fiercely in a world to come that remembers every beings’ inherent belongingness and right to liberation. Through our healing together, may we continue becoming the dream of our ancestors and of the earth.
GUIDANCE & TOOLS
As a drama therapist, I support you to honor the multiplicity of the roles you play in life. This invitation is about accepting that all parts of us, serve as wise guides. I aim to organize myself alongside you as creative and gentle accompaniment as you traverse the contradictions, wounds, and joys of your many inner parts. Our work together will seek to illuminate the roles you play, those buried/lost, and those you long to become. We bring these parts of self into mindful awareness, dialogue, connection, & agency. We may utilize expressive arts approaches including embodiment, movement, role reversal, creative writing, visualizations, playfulness/humor, trauma healing somatics, verbal process, and more along the path.
In our work together, we will center on what promotes resource, joy, and endurance. My hope is to support you towards more fully inhabiting your aligned values and desires. I hope these connections we make together, bridge you to many other spaces, communities, and resourceful webs in your life.
HEALING IN THESE TIMES
I support folx to mitigate shame from harmful systems/environments that we live under and within, that we resist through. Living through late stage racialized capitalism and a cis-hetero abelist patriarchal paradigm, I honor that healing looks like compassionate harm reduction & resilience. Healing is all that dismantles capitalistic and product centric frames of wellness, and instead defines wellbeing by your own knowing & your communities.
Especially for folks who have been historically and systemically excluded, undervalued, dehumanized, and tortured by the fields of health, I understand trauma healing to be a practice of remembering your power . Waking from the myths of disempowerment, and to call ourselves back (Joy Harjo). To remember that we all have innate healing abilities, the capacity for caring relationship, and strategic survival. I look forward to connecting with you to see if we may be a fit to partner along your path.
