Beyond Traditional Therapies
"Separation is severed at a spiritual & cellular level, it must be healed at a spiritual & cellular reconnection."
A proven method from lived experience, toward belonging, receiving love, & the profound experience of being truly seen & understood by someone who has walked a similar path.
Through adoption and plant medicine, I discovered something much larger: what separation does to us, and how we find our way back to ourselves, love, and belonging.
My story begins with separation from my birth mother, family and culture. I arrived in Minnesota, USA, which was my fourth home at the age of two.
My body had already survived loss, sickness and starvation. My dysregulated body carried the imprint of those early separations, and an emotionally abusive upbringing, until in my early fifties when I became alcohol-free and began exploring mindfulness and plant medicine.
This was the catalyst, reaching places other methods couldn’t. For the first time, I could access the unconscious, where I began to meet the grief of early separation, reconnect with my ancestry, and heal my heart.
This took years of integration and growth learned through the trials of my closest relationships.
Today, I no longer shrink my worth or compromise my boundaries because I’m afraid someone will leave.
Fear still visits. It just doesn’t make my decisions anymore.
I became a certified psychedelic practitioner and studied internationally alongside gifted medicine women, deepending my understanding of how to hold space for meaningful expansion.
If this calls to you, I’ve seen and lived the expansive impact plant medicine and integration can have on our mental, physical, and spiritual lives when approached with reverence and held within a safe container.
Seoul 2022
Kara (Adoptee)
Minneapolis, MN
"Joni has been able to hold space for me and my healing journey that others have been unable to do. It is with her combination of lived experience and deep understanding of adoption core wounds that allow her to be perfectly suited to teach and stand witness through the contemplative work of deep soul healing. I am beyond grateful for her guidance, friendship and most importantly the honest communication that allows two people to make the conscious choice to explore further than surface level for the purpose of true peace through honest self reflection."
Zugey
Austin TX
"Joni is truly gifted in this space, and I felt deeply held and safe with her - trusting the process became one of the most meaningful decisions I’ve made. Other methods hadn’t worked and this experience has already begun changing my life in ways I never thought possible."
Nicole
Minneapolis MN
“Joni provides a calming, nurturing and supportive presence to help you feel safe. She is both knowledgeable and compassionate, a great combination for holding space. I appreciate her passion for the work as well as her ability to offer safe space to enter into it yourself.”
Chris (Adoptee)
Los Angeles CA
"I’ve known Joni personally and professionally for 15 years. She has helped to safely guide me to reach unconscious places I couldn't before. Traditional therapy could not have achieved what work I have done alongside Joni's support and care. I've had incredible experiences that changed how I relate as a mother, colleague and life itself. I feel fortunate for this incredible awareness and integation support.
