“I want to unfold.
Let no place in me hold itself closed,
for where I am closed, I am false”.
~RAINER MARIA RILKE
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Hi, I’m Ashica (she/her/we)
I truly love this professional journey and feel grateful for a career that aligns with my values of authenticity, curiosity, kindness, community and interconnection, service, justice, growth and wisdom. It’s an immense privilege to be able to share intimate space with another and safely hold your vulnerability with care and confidence.
I am here wholeheartedly for you and our co-liberation. I offer a clinical partnership that is collaborative and compassionate!
I believe we all have the agency for healing, awareness building, and practicing self-determination. We will partner together to meet your intentions.
You will work with a kind and patient clinician, that is culturally-responsive, honors your wisdom, and the uniqueness of the whole person.
Care is compassion-based, trauma- informed, strength-based, empowerment-focused, and emphasizes person-centered collaboration to meet your wellness.
We work together to build a plan for your wellness. Care can include various techniques that serve you best; to connect, ease, sooth, or sense the body, mind, and energy.
Your whole self is safe here. You will access a compassionate and safe space to process. Your individuality, knowledge, history, experience & culture will be honored.
Your clinician is skilled to affirm BIPOC and LGBTQIA2S+ identities, elders, caregivers, groups, professionals, care communities and healthcare centers.
Ashica is a student and practitioner of ancient wisdom. She is a Trauma-Sensitive HeartMath Certified Practitioner, Reiki Master, Mindfulness Mentor Training graduate, and pursues advance training in Mindful Self-Compassion, grief processing, decisional capacity, and Narcissistic Abuse Treatment. She is also a trained Intergroup Dialogue Facilitator, with practice facilitating diverse groups of participants for the intent of increased understanding and relationship building.
My commitment to you is expressed through befriending my own personal healing, awareness building, valuing self-care, and integrating practices. I believe as clinicians, we can only heal others as deeply as we’ve healed ourselves.
Through practicing meditation & mindfulness, transmuting energy, embodying self-compassion, lifelong listening, learning & loving, being creative, incorporating routine play & rest, and valuing cultural humility, I can best step forward to serve your wellness journey.
With love and gratitude,
~ Ashica
Certified Social Worker in Health Care (C-SWHC)
Professional continuum of services designed to support optimal health functioning with direct care services to patients and their families, as well as, leadership in health care organizations, from a strengths perspective.
CORE FUNCTIONS
• Psychosocial Assessment - assessment, evaluation, intervention
• Resource Management - financial counseling, coordinating and developing community resources
• Continuity of Care - admission diversion, discharge planning, transitions
• Psychosocial Interventions - counseling, adaptation to illness/loss, support groups, end of life issues, advance directives
• Crisis Intervention - violence, neglect, trauma, life altering disease
• Health Education - patient/family, interdisciplinary training, community education
• Interdisciplinary Collaboration - advocacy, teamwork, leadership
CLINICAL SOCIAL WORKER IN GERONTOLOGY (CSW-G)
Older adults have distinct characteristics and requires advanced skill in the assessment and intervention.
CSW-G promote independence, autonomy, and dignity in later life. As well as, advocating and supporting both professional and informal caregivers.
CSW-G possess a variety of knowledge and skills including: assessment of older adult needs and functional capacity, expertise regarding physical and mental health issues, case and care management, long-term care, elder abuse, quality of life issues, service planning and advance care planning, clinical practice, and administration.
The CSW-G credential certifiers that the holder has met national standards of knowledge, skill, and clinical experience as a social worker in field of gerontology.
This certification specifies the following requisite competency:
• Comprehensive Bio-psychosocial Assessment
• Clinical Intervention
• Changes in Physiological and Neurological function
• Coordination with Care Providers
• Service Planning
• Maintaining appropriate records and documentation
Trauma-Sensitive HeartMath certified practitioner
“Love is when we care from the heart. It produces a measurable heart rhythm of coherence and hormonal and autonomic changes in the body. It does not have a behavior associated with it, but is simply a radiance of genuine compassion, concern and care that comes from the heart.”
– Sheva Carr
What is HeartMath?
HeartMath is a science-based, evidence-based system of techniques and heart rate variability (HRV) for self-regulation that helps to build resilience and bring the mind, body and emotions into better alignment.
According to over 400-peer-reviewed journal articles report improved attention and mental clarity, less pain, improved energy levels and better sleep.
What is Coherence and how can it help you?
Coherence is a physiological state that is important for us to build resilience and maintain our mental, emotional, and physical well-being.
Coherence can be used to describe any system, including the human body, when there is orderly and harmonious connectedness between parts. Systems are performing optimally and there is synchronization between the heart, lungs, nervous system, endocrine system, and immune system.
Our emotions affect our body more than our thoughts. We can generate a state of coherence by shifting to a positive emotional state. These include compassion, care, gratitude or appreciation.
HeartMath techniques are meant to be used as an adjunct, to supplement therapy and trauma processing.
HeartMath is an effective method for self regulation, co-regulation, and energy renewal.
HeartMath builds resiliency and the capacity to prepare for, recover from, and adapt in the face of stress, challenge or adversity.
HeartMath helps support professional caregivers with minimizing empathy fatigue and over care.