Welcome, I invite you to attune to the wisdom of our interbeing as activist and buddhist monk Thích Nhất Hạnh has described.

My name is marlína dochartaigh (Spanish and Gaelic spelling) (marlena dougherty: legal spelling) (they/them, ray/rem, she/her), LPCC, pending LMHCA, a neurodivergent, non-binary, queer, somatic therapist, raised on occupied Coast Salish Territories. With roots in Irish, Mestizo, and other European lineages, I weave together regenerative craft, somatic therapy, and ancestral gleanings to support individual and collective healing.

My professional career began enthralled with the manufactured colonial world of fashion design and marketing beauty standards. This began to unravel as my creative practices deepened through grieving, ecological awareness, neuroplasticity, liberation, spirituality, and ancestral healing.

If you’re experiencing anxiety, depression, personal or ecological grief, masking, burnout, chronic pain, feeling isolated, or struggling with meaning or purpose, I would love to support you. Diagnoses currently place problems on the individual, rather than the interconnected historical contexts from which they have arisen. I am here to hold this awareness with you and tend to our interconnectivity. 

In her book Decolonizing Therapy, Jennifer Mullan says that “colonization is a root core human trauma”. This is a foundational understanding I hold that roots deeper into resources that are more ancient than the world of the colonizer. I work to liberate myself and all beings from oppression through lenses of feminism and spirituality. This work cultivates authenticity, intuition, body neutrality, radical acceptance, mind-body-spirit-environment intelligence, and cultural reimagination through grief work, fostering community and care teams, shifting movements of identity, and navigating unmasking.

I am devoted to lifelong decolonial unraveling and practicing through ecocentric values. I am grounded through weaving outcast materials (physical and psychological) with and as ancestral mythological knowledge for cultural healing, self-inquiry, and neuroscience—affirming that healing happens through tending to relationships of minds, bodies, spirits, and lands. You’re invited into a space where all parts of you — even those that have felt unseen, silenced, or cast aside — are met with compassionate presence.

It lights me up to work with people exploring identities, questioning belief systems, developing queer spiritual practices, seeking to develop creative processes of expression, and looking for ways to connect with those of their ancestors who are healed and wise. I believe it is courageous to give ourselves permission to make space to be with all of ourselves—especially now.