Credentials: Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Master's of Public Health, Certified Yoga Teacher
About
Welcome, I am glad that you are here. I am Samantha. I come from a long line of white settlers in southwestern and eastern turtle island. My people mostly come from northern and western Europe including: England, Ireland, Sweden, Denmark, Scotland and Germany. I was born and am currently held by Tohono O'odham and Yaqui land, currently known as Tucson, Arizona. I am passionate about holding space for adults and teens who struggle with trauma, eating disorders and other mental health concerns.
Services offered
Services
Focus areas & populations
Focus areas
Communities served
Identity & values
Values & commitments
Identities & communities
Lived experience
Practice & approach
Sensorimotor Psychotherapy.
What harm reduction means in practice
Harm reduction for me is a way of being. It's a way of seeing and feeling in relationship. It's honoring where we have been, where we are and where we want to go, simultaneously.
Communities, movements & lineages that shaped this work
Gloria Lucas and Nalgona Positivity Pride, Buddhist psychology, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, Landless Worker's Movements in Brazil, Embodied Ancestral Inquiry, Zapatistas.
Trainings, certifications & community lineages
My background is in somatic psychotherapy. I primarily use Sensorimotor Psychotherapy and liberation-based frameworks for healing.
Publications, media & written work
S. Willy-Gravley, J. Beauchemin, P. Pirie, A. Gomes, E. Klein. A Randomized Controlled Trial of Yoga with Incarcerated Females: Impacts on Emotion Regulation, Body Dissociation, and Warnings of Substance Relapse. Social Work Research, Volume 45, Issue 1, March 2021, Pages 20–29. https://doi.org/10.1093/swr/svaa023