“I want to unfold.

Let no place in me hold itself closed,

for where I am closed, I am false”.

~RAINER MARIA RILKE

Hi, I’m Ashica (she/her/we)

Healing is uniquely defined by you.

I feel grateful to be apart of the journey in the restoration of your whole being . These journeys are grounded in love and align with my values of gratitude, authenticity, curiosity, kindness, community, 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 wholeheartedly here for you and our co-liberation. I offer a clinical partnership that is collaborative and compassionate!

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 attuned to affirm BIPOC and LGBTQIA2S+ identities.

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.

I believe we all have the agency for healing, awareness building, and practicing self-determination. We will partner together to meet your intentions.

Care can include various techniques that serve you best; to connect, ease, sooth, or sense the body, mind, heart, and energy.

Ashica is a student and practitioner of ancient wisdom. She believes there’s many layers to our being, including energetic layers or biofield. She merges clinical care with traditional eastern practices to facilitate holistic wellness and healing. She is a Trauma-Sensitive HeartMath Certified Practitioner, Reiki Master, Mindfulness Mentor Training graduate, Certified Stone Medicine Practitioner, and pursues advance training in Mindful Self-Compassion, grief processing, decisional capacity, Narcissistic Abuse Treatment, breathwork, energetic care, Pranic Healing, Marma points, and Daoist Stone Medicine. 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, centering in self-compassion, and integrating holistic practices. I believe as clinicians, we can only support in healing others, as deeply as we’ve healed ourselves.

Through practicing meditation & mindfulness, transmuting energy, embodying self-compassion, lifelong listening, un/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

“Love is empty without thinking, thinking hollow without love”.

~ C.G Jung

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.

    • 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.

    • 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

  • 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- 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.

A master is not one who knows; but is one who moves forward on a path with faithful commitment to continuous learning, compassion, and integrity of a craft.

Usui Shiki Reiki Ryoho Master

  • Reiki is a complementary and works in collaboration with medical and psychological treatments.

    Reiki is a complementary therapy that is a non-invasive and non-pharmacological approach designed to promote a heightened sense of relaxation, and alleviate distress through compassionate and soothing touch

  • BENEFITS OF REIKI

    • Reduced work-related stress, anxiety, or tension (1,2)

    • Feel a significant reduction in symptoms of psychological distress (1,2)

    • Increased harmony & well-being (1,2)

    • Increased sense of empowerment and capacities for healing (3)

    • Better quality sleep (4)

    • Improved comfort, relaxation, pain relief, and energy levels (5)

    • Reduce negative side effects related to chemotherapy (6)

    • Improve surgical results (6)

    • Regulating and significantly changing the autonomic nervous system (6)

    • Increases mental function & memory (a)

    • Significant deceases of pain, depression, and anxiety (b)

    • Improves certain behavior: less (anxiety, irritability, restless, confusion, crying) (c,d)

    • Increases positive interactions (talkative and interactive) (c,d)

    • Increased relaxation (c,d)

    • Better concentration in patients with mild cognitive impairment or mild Alzheimer's disease. (c,d)

    • Reiki and hand massage reduced the pain and fatigue levels of patients having rheumatoid arthritis. (e)

    1- DOI: 10.1177/0898010110377294, 2-PMID: 15154152, 3-DOI: 10.1177/089431840933701, 4- DOI: 10.1590/0034-7167-2021-0535, 5-Int. j. adv. multidise. res. stud. 2022; 2(4):519-522 , 6-DOI:10.1016/j.explore.2022.11.005

    a- DOI: 10.1089/acm.2006.12.911, b-DOI: 10.3928/19404921-20100601-01, c-DOI: 10.1089/acm.2006.12.911, d-PMID: 19623833, e-DOI: 10.1016/j.explore.2022.06.006

Daoist alchemical healing process that bridges form with with formless.

Certified Stone Medicine practitioner

  • Stone medicine is an alchemical process to deeply heal root causes by using chemical compositions of stones and energy flow of meridians fostering energetic, soul, and ancestral level healing.

    It’s broad wisdom stems from the most prominent stone and mineral healing traditions in history such as the Egyptian Mystery Schools, Andean Mysticism, North American Indigenous wisdom traditions, and most prominently, the ancient and current Daoist tradition of stone medicine.

“Compassionate toward yourself, you reconcile all beings in the world."

~ Lao Tzu