SOMATIC
somatics have many cultural lineages. well known, ancient, sacred, and commodified cultural forms include yoga and qigong, while many more forms have been lost to colonization.
sōma is a Greek word for whole body, while soma in Sanskrit refers to a ritual of drinking an elixir of a sacred plant.
now a days, people hear somatics referring to the connection between mind, body, and spirit. i like to extend this to connect environments as well. i think of the wisdom of a whole body of a cell, to that of an individual (human, plant, stone, river, creature, etc.), to that of the collective body of earth, and all scales of bioregions in between. i see accessing this wisdom itself as a sacred elixir.
this work invites peoples to return to their bodies as sites of wisdom, rather than sites of mechanical inadequacy. it invites peoples to tend relationships with our mind-body-spirit-environments rather than dominate and numb them with universal assumptions.
LIBERATIONS
liberation from what?
liberation from being isloated, from systems that seek to enslave physically, mentally, and spiritually. being liberated to feel fully alive—liberated to grieve what has passed—liberated to love—liberated to be witnessed, to hide, to move, to be still—liberated to be imperfect—liberated to dream and imagine. this is the work we are up to, allowing space to be liberated.
reweaving outcast parts of soul, earth, and community through metaphors, movements, and crafts
ABOUT ME
Welcome, I invite you to attune to the wisdom of our interbeing as activist and buddhist monk Thích Nhất Hạnh described.
My name is marlína dochartaigh (Spanish and Gaelic spelling) (marlena dougherty: legal spelling) (they/them, ray/rem, she/her), LPCC in colorado, LMHCA in washington state, 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.
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group therapy
marlína is currently facilitating a soul mending therapeutic crafting group virtually for folx in colorado.
craft / grief offerings for in-person sessions are in development on lummi island, washington.
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individual therapy
work together with marlína one-on one to tend to the fabric of your soul.
available for residents in colorado and washington state
colorado insurance accepted: aetna, aigna, anthem/BCBS, medicaid, united
washington state: self-pay options
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creative workshops
free access to virtual library of crafts
virtual and in-person creative community workshops are in development.
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crafts
one of a kind crafts made by marlína.
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custom upcycling
do you have used garments / textiles that you want to get rid of?
transforming them into something you love is a wonderful way to keep them out of landfill and in your heart. it is a creative form of land stewardship that can be an alchemical process of inner and external transformation. based on circular economic research, combined with mindfulness & embodiment practices. let’s explore this together.
PROCESS ORIENTED, EXPANDING CAPACITY TO BE WITH ALL THAT EMERGES, MEANDERS, AND FALLS
resonate with our work? let’s reweave worlds together
information resources: books
