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Does this sound like you?
You are struggling to feel in your body and connected to your emotional and physical experiences in an aware, clear, and regulated way.
Disconnected from your body
You sense you are carrying around a great deal of pain and hurt from past experiences that you, your ancestors, or others around you have suffered through and survived.
Carrying the pain of the past
Experiencing a spiritual awakening
You are going through a big time of transition where you're experiencing increased sensitivity, perception, and awareness that is not something you feel you can discuss with people in your life.
Grieving a significant loss
You've experienced a significant loss in your life - a person, a relationship, a job, or something else - and you just can't seem to move forward.
Feeling stuck in your life
You feel stuck in life and don't really know where to go or what to do in order to bring about the changes you really want to feel more alive and excited.
Preparing for + integrating ceremony
You're preparing for or integrating a plant or animal medicine ceremony and are seeking supportive guidance to best prepare or integrate the teachings fully.
You find yourself abandoning yourself or betraying your own needs to please and make others happy and keep the peace.
Stuck in a cycle of people pleasing
Struggling to create healthy relationships
You have difficulty cultivating deeper platonic and romantic relationships rooted in mutual trust, vulnerability, and shared safety and security.
About Arielle
Arielle has been dedicated to supporting individuals from diverse backgrounds in healing the often-invisible wounds of complex trauma for over ten years. She is seasoned in helping people in healing from childhood abuse and neglect, relational trauma, sexual and domestic violence, parental loss, complex grief, ancestral wounds, and other experiences that fracture one’s sense of safety, belonging, and identity. She also specializes in supporting those navigating spiritual awakenings—often catalyzed by trauma, life transitions, or plant or animal medicine journeys—with grounded, integrative care.
As a somatic psychotherapist, Arielle integrates Somatic Experiencing, Brainspotting, and Internal Family Systems (IFS)—also known as parts work—to help clients restore connection to their bodies, inner selves, and innate resilience. She also offers guidance in psychedelic preparation and integration, supporting individuals before and after plant medicine ceremonies to anchor insights into everyday life. Her work is rooted in honoring the Indigenous lineages and ceremonial traditions that have safeguarded these sacred practices for generations.
Arielle provides virtual trauma therapy and psychedelic integration for clients across California, Washington D.C., Maryland, and Virginia, and offers in-person sessions in San Diego, California. Through her practice, Sacred Space, she holds compassionate containers for personal, ancestral, and collective healing.
Somatic
therapy
TO SUPPORT YOUR BODY
Somatic therapy is a holistic approach that emphasizes the connection the body and mind. It explores how physical sensations, emotions, and thoughts can influence each other, helping individuals release stored trauma and tension. Through various techniques, such as breathwork and movement, somatic therapy encourages clients to become more aware of their bodily experiences, promoting healing and self-discovery. This therapeutic practice can lead to improved emotional well-being and a deeper understanding of oneself.
Complex trauma therapy
TO SUPPORT YOUR TRAUMA HEALING JOURNEY
Complex trauma therapy focuses on tending to and healing the long-term effects of the chronic trauma exposure, often stemming from a repeatedly experiencing or being exposed to traumatic events, such as abuse or neglect. This kind of therapy helps individuals process their experiences, develop holistic coping strategies, and build healthier relationships with themselves and others rooted in felt safety and security . Ultimately this therapy aims to empower individuals to reclaim their narratives and foster resilience in the face of adversity.
Brainspotting therapy
TO SUPPORT YOUR NERVOUS SYSTEM
Brainspotting is a therapeutic approach focuses on the connection between eye position and emotional processing. Developed by Dr. David Grand, it helps individuals access and traumatic memories or emotional distress by identifying specific eye positions that correlate with their feelings. This innovative technique allows for deeper exploration of the mind, facilitating healing and personal growth in a safe and supportive environment. Through brainspotting, clients can achieve a greater understanding of their emotions and experiences, leading to transformative change.
INternal family Systems (IFS) therapy
TO SUPPORT ALL PARTS OF YOU
Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy is a unique approach founded by Dick Schwartz that views a person as being made of carious "parts," each with its own feelings, thoughts, and functions. By exploring these different parts or characters, individuals can better understand their inner dynamics and how such parts influence one's way of perceiving and engaging with the world. Through IFS work, people can experience improved self-awareness, enhanced emotional regulation, and the ability foster deeper levels of compassion for themselves and for others.
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Set up a free healing consult call with Arielle to chat more about where you are in your journey, your current wellness needs, and to learn more about how she may be able to support you!
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Then, the journey begins with your first healing session in person or online, where you will learn more about the healing container, what to expect with our work and begin clarifying your healing intentions!
Schedule a Free Consult Call
Frequently Asked Questions
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How much is Plant Medicine Guidance?The cost of plant medicine guidance sessions depend on the intentions of the individual reaching out for services.
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What is Plant Medicine Preparation?Arielle works with folks to fine-tune and prepare themselves for plant medicine ceremony with a sense of intentionality, self-awareness, and humbled respect for the power and ritual surrounding work with master plant teachers.
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Do you offer Psychedelic Assisted Therapy?While communing with Master Plant Teachers and Spirits can be very therapeutic and healing, Arielle does not offer Psychedelic or Plant Medicine Assisted Therapy. If you are interested in learning more about Arielle's Ceremonial Facilitation and Trip Sitting services, please visit this question.
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What is your background and training with Plant Medicine?Through over ten years of personal healing work within plant medicine teachers and ongoing mentorship with various Indigenous elders and Shamanic teachers, and Indigenous Medicine Keepers and Teachers of the Shipibo, Toltecca, Mazateca, Wixarica, Mayann, Santo Daime, and Umbanda lineages and traditions, Arielle has developed a deeper understanding of the potential multidimensional complexities and benefits of incorporating plant and animal allies into one’s healing process.
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What is Plant Medicine Facilitation & Ceremonial Sitting Services?Arielle assists individuals in navigating the Sacred Ceremonial experience of the communing with and embarking on a Plant Medicine journey. Her approach is rooted in respectfully maintaining the original Indigenous teachings and rituals of plant medicine ceremony that have been practiced for centuries while incorporating cutting edge approaches of Somatics and Trauma psychology to make for a trauma-sensitive and multidimensionally supportive and protected environment that promotes an optimal level of safety within all realms of experience. Arielle’s rich and diverse tapestry of healing experiences and commitment to her path of serving as a cultural bridge between ancient healing practices and modern-day approaches is at the heart of her mission to facilitate individual, ancestral, and collective healing through work done at Sacred Space.
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Is this legal?Our service is fully legal. Your facilitator DOES NOT provide you with psychedelics for ceremony. Once you complete your health intake and assessment, your facilitator will support you in your process by curating the most supportive container for you to safely sit with the appropriate dosage of the psychedelic you wish to commune with. Possessing psychedelics remains federally illegal in the U.S. Legality varies by state and local laws, especially in areas with decriminalization measures. As of June 1, 2023, psychedelics have been decriminalized in: Oregon Colorado Oakland, CA Santa Cruz, CA Arcata, CA San Francisco, CA Ann Arbor, MI Washtenaw County, MI Hazel Park, MI Washington D.C. Somerville, MA Cambridge, MA Northampton, MA Seattle, WA Decriminalization means law enforcement won't prioritize prosecuting these offenses, as most drug charges are handled at the state level. Ultimately, it's up to you to assess the risks involved in seeking healing through psychedelics.
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What is Psychedelic Coaching?Psychedelic coaching is a form of mentorship that Arielle offers to individuals who are interested in, currently, or have previously communed with Master Plant or AnimalsTeachers and Spirits and are seeking a guide to support them in working within these healing spaces in a reverent and respectful practice that maintains the indigenous traditions, ritual, and Sacred nature of these Medicines and Ceremonial practices that accompany them
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What is Plant Medicine Integration?For those returning from ceremony, Arielle offer's psychedelic integration sessions to support people in multidimensionally processing what they went through during ceremony, honoring the lessons and messages they received, and transforming these teachings into living embodied wisdom they can carry with them into their lives.
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Do you accept insurance?I am an out of network provider and do not accept health insurance. I provide a monthly superbill at the end of each month that my clients can submit themselves to their insurance provider to receive full or partial reimbursement for our sessions if their insurance plan offers out of network benefits.
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How do I know if I have out of network benefits?To check about out of network benefits, grab your insurance card and call them number on the back. Inquire about out of network benefits, what specific codes they cover, what the reimbursement rate is, as well as the detailed process to submit bills to them for reimbursement.
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Can you work with anyone in the world?For individuals who are interested in therapy, I can only serve people who live in Maryland, California, Washington DC, and Virginia.
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Do you offer sliding scale rates?Yes! I offer a limited amount of sliding scale slots on my caseload. Please feel free to inquire about those slots. If I am not able to offer sliding scale options at the time you reach out, please visit openpathcollective.com to find another aligned sliding scale provider.
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How often will we meet?The cadence and length of therapy depends on the individual's current wellness related needs and therapeutic intentions. Once Arielle meets with you and discussed your history as well as your current intentions for therapy, she will curate a specific plan that includes the cadence and frequency of meetings, as well as what will be accomplished during sessions. Arielle believes that all healing rests upon strong and sturdy foundations of trust and relative safety, and thus recommends that at the beginning of therapy that folks meet with her weekly.
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Do you meet with people in person or virtually?I offer in person walk and talk and office sessions in San Diego, California and virtual sessions to people in the rest of California, Maryland, Washington DC, and Virginia.
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How much does therapy cost?I offer 45 minute individual therapy sessions for $200 / session.