Hi, I’m Andie (they/them).

I facilitate spaces for hope holders.

I’ve been in the mental health field since 2016, working in high crisis, homeless services, community mental health, private practice, and policy work. Before social work, I was a nanny supporting exhausted parents.

Care work is real work.

I learned the real lessons of depletion, & from these hard lessons, I’ve symbolically died, & re-emerged from the spiral harnessing my strength to ask how to remain a care worker and honor my physical, emotional, and spiritual health.

I am certain care work is missing a crucial piece ~ which is structured support spaces for people to co-regulate with others, and nourish themselves to hold hope for others. (Along with moving out of exploitation - but that’s a longterm goal).

My Approach

Feelings are information.

Authenticity

In a field that often requires ‘perfection,’ and asks us often to not be human, I show up as my full ass self. I hope you feel like you can also be your full self, take care of yourself, and my gosh ~ be human. What kind of care can we offer when we are ourselves?

Creativity

So often, the feedback I receive from group members is that their creativity can be re-engaged with. Care work is a whole-body experience. How might our relationship to ourselves, and in return to our work, shift if we feel creative? Care work is a craft… after all.

Curiosity

When I support care workers, I try my hardest to remain curious. What you need is a challenging question under capitalism. Can we make space for expansiveness and growth? Can curiosity lead us to new ways of being?

Gentleness

If you’re a healer of any kind it’s most likely you might have said, ‘Can you be a little bit more gentle with yourself?’ Truly though… Can we healers be more gentle with ourselves? What does that look like? What grief & joy might emerge as we acknowledge the shame but not let it guide us?