I am a polyvagal-informed art psychotherapist and incorporate both the creative process and somatic experientials in my practice. I have a small private practice and also run a trauma-centered nonprofit providing community groups and workshops for educators and mental health professionals. My husband (LCSW/EMDR practitioner) and I started our trauma nonprofit collective in 2019. We both work in crisis/trauma/grief and we saw a need to create a collective of trauma specialists in New Orleans and surrounding coastal parishes of South Louisiana addressing ancestral trauma, systemic racism, eco-anxiety due to climate change, eco-racism, disaster mental health care, and historical grief & loss. We are Cajun and Louisiana Creole and understand the needs and history of our cultural landscape.