About Micha
Therapist, Facilitator, Storyteller, Mama to many animals
A steward of transmuting personal & collective traumas + stories into rewilding, reconnection, and regeneration. Champion of play.
While labels are limiting, they also breed familiarity, so in honor of that I am a licensed therapist, group and ritual facilitator, Reiki master teacher, and marketing director and storyteller. I hold a M.A. in Counseling Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara, CA and a Bachelor of Arts in Communications and Film Studies from San Diego State University and University of Oklahoma. I have a private practice offering all of my healing arts modalities and founded weREWILD, a living platform of resources, research and musings.
My work in sustainability & health/wellness as well as my writing has been featured in: The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Elle magazine, Los Angeles Magazine, Apartment Therapy, Refinery29, The Chalkboard Mag, Sakara Life, DesignSponge, FOAM, LAist, MindBodyGreen and more.
About Me
I have worked at Wolf Connection for almost seven years, an education and empowerment organization pairing rescued wolves with adolescents and adults – the global innovator in facilitating the restorative human-animal relationship with a unique focus on Wolf Therapy®. I became the first psychology clinical intern, then a Program Lead; I manage the Women & Wolves program and co-founded the 10-week Women & Wolves immersive program and served as a marketing consultant for two years, helping re-establish the messaging, voice, website and public-facing communications for the organization.
Prior to and somewhat during my therapeutic work, I carved out successful marketing, storytelling, branding and communication initiatives for clients across music, innovation, non-profit and technology industries for now close to 20 years as a Marketing Director.
A little more about me…
At three years old, I donned a leotard and tights and began the process of perfecting pas de bourrées in Tulsa, Oklahoma. A few years later, I sat behind a piano and painstakingly practiced until I could at least play the Robin Hood theme – Bryan Adams, you might remember it. Somewhere in between those single digit ages, I began to learn about mental illness and psychology – first only by family experiences and then by my own studies. As childhood wore on, I began to open to the discomforting discovery of what it’s like to feel so much – to love every living creature and to enter the pain and heartbreak of others in my immediate surroundings. We call these people empaths. I didn’t know then. I didn’t know for a long while.
So, music and dance (art in general) and the study of people – particularly how we communicate with one another and ourselves – became my adolescent preoccupations, my young adult pursuits and my purpose and professions. I studied professional writing, became a marketing director, and truthfully, I didn’t find my way to becoming a therapist and working in healing arts by having any traditional healers of my own for some time. Music, dance, writing, community and the animist world and four-legged companions were my healers and shamans growing up.
I have also been living with chronic illnesses, and I see you, if you, too, have complex somatic/physical symptomologies or any prolonged illness…especially if you have been mostly failed by the Western medical paradigm and other healers. I’ve resided in Los Angeles most of my adult life and most recently Idyllwild, CA.
Thank you for being here.
Micha
Training & Education
Associate Marriage & Family Therapist – registration #120062 (my hours have been complete for years but while I wrestle with even having a license within this larger therapy institution, I work under Julie Anne Steiger, license #LCSW#76510
M.A in Counseling Psychology with emphasis on Jungian/Depth Psychology, Pacifica Graduate Institute
Psychedelic-Assisted Therapies Certificate, Naropa University (partially completed)
Certified in EMDR by EMDR Institute, Inc.
Certified in ketamine-assisted therapy
Bachelor of Professional Studies and Fine Arts in Communications (Journalism and Film Studies), San Diego State University
ICF-recognized and licensed NLP coach
Columbia University Coaching Certification Program for Executive and Organizational Coaching
Level I, II, III and Master Teacher Reiki certified
Breathwork trained
Expressive arts
Plant-based therapies
Testimonials
