Queermagical & Liberatory Healing in Nature

~offered by Cooper Stodden (they)~

For transgender, non-binary, queer, and two spirit folx and queer families

In sbəqʷábs (“spuhQUABS”) on Coast Salish land
(colonially-named Seward Park, South Seattle, WA).

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You believe that all humans, regardless of identities and experiences, deserve respect, belonging, and love. 

And that if you kept working hard, maybe you’d deserve those things, too. 

You feel like there is something fundamentally wrong or broken in you. 

On good days, you understand intellectually that these burdens you carry are from intergenerational trauma, oppression, abuse, invalidation, or other hurts. 

On hard days, those insights are shadowed by shame, self-doubt, self-criticism, and difficulty staying connected with yourself and others.

It didn’t start with you.

It’s not yours to heal alone. 

You belong here.

The World Needs Your Magic.

I can help you gently release barriers to connection with yourself, other humans, and the more-than-human world.

Increase self-compassion and self-acceptance.

Deepen magical and spiritual practices that support regulation, empowerment, and belonging.

Get more free.

Nature-Based Therapy

Nature-Based Therapy embraces the healing power of your connection with the more-than-human world. My work takes place in sbəqʷábs (Seward Park), where the vibrant, living ecosystem co-holds the therapeutic process. Most of my clients are ADHDers, and many note that nature-based sessions enhance their ability to focus and be present. The spacious and grounding context of the forest on the lake can support your capacity to engage with and heal internal experiences that may feel overwhelming in other settings—all while offering the added mental health benefits that come naturally from spending an hour outside.

To help you access the freedom and connection that is your birthright, I integrate Nature-Based Therapy with Treating Internalized Oppression framework, Internal Family Systems Therapy, Somatics, Witchcraft, Family Systems Therapy, Brainspotting, Play Therapy, and Polyvagal Therapy. Therapy with me is trauma-informed, anti-racist, queer/trans-affirming, neurodivergent-affirming, fat/body positive, anti-ableist, anti-oppressive, magical, and rooted in the vision of personal and collective liberation.

Internal Family Systems Therapy

My practice is deeply rooted in the wisdom of Internal Family Systems Therapy (IFS), which teaches us to compassionately understand our thoughts, emotions, behaviors, and feelings as a response to systemic wounding and protection rather than as the result of pathology. We will work within your inner world by honoring and collaborating with your body’s protective system rather than fighting or overriding it. IFS invites the practices of deep witnessing, trust-building, nurturing, and self-attunement (the relational practices of safety and love) to help us feel whole and free.

The Treating Internalized Oppression framework (TIO) is the over-arching framework I use to map therapy. I understand that oppression is trauma and that the ways we internalize oppression cause suffering in our lives, bodies, and communities. TIO  guides me in helping people heal from oppression’s internalized impacts.

Witchcraft informs my practice in many ways. My witchcraft tradition integrates magic and politics—an intersectional, trans-affirming, ecofeminist, activist tradition. At the heart of my craft is my reverence for the land and all life, including a deep sense of awe and wonder that infuses my spirituality and shapes the way I guide clients toward connection, healing, and transformation. I also use magical tools like ritual, tarot, working with the elements, connection with ancestors and other guides, and grounding practices.

I bring my training in Family Systems Therapy and my experience with ancestral lineage healing practices to use a systemic lens to help you understand and heal from intergenerational patterns, traumas, and burdens passed down through your family lines.

Brainspotting is a powerful but gentle trauma healing therapy I use to help you heal from past traumas with the deep somatic wisdom your body holds about healing. Brainspotting works by identifying, processing, and releasing core neurophysiological sources of emotional/body pain, trauma, dissociation, and a variety of other challenging symptoms that are typically out of reach of your conscious mind and its cognitive and language capacity.

The Safe and Sound Protocol (SSP), developed by Dr. Stephen Porges and his team, is applied Polyvagal Theory. The SSP acts as a non-invasive, acoustic vagal nerve stimulator, helping you to re-tune your nervous system to felt safety (better supporting connection, collaboration, and resilience). I use the SSP with ongoing therapy clients and also offer it as a stand-alone package. Learn more about listening with me here.

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