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These sessions are based on Mary Magdalene's instructions for emotional healing. This is a very specific process that I have found to be extremely effective, both in my own life and with others. This form of healing allows you to release "stuck" or long-standing emotional patterns or wounds in a gentle, yet deep way. Emotional patterns we work with may involve grief or loss, anger, fear, depression, anxiety, jealousy, emotional numbness, or any other emotion you're experiencing that's obstructing your peace and joy.

In these sessions, I draw upon my spiritual guidance, as well as my training in counseling, spirituality, Compassionate Communication, Light-Filled Intimacy^™, personal growth, and codependence recovery, to support you in resolving your particular challenges or difficulties. This work is a powerful means for re-training the way you respond to emotional challenges, replacing dysfunctional, habitual patterns with new ones that support your total well-being and spiritual growth.

I work with individuals, couples, families, and groups — facilitating healing, conflict resolution, and transformation.

I also work with relationship challenges and changes, sexuality and intimacy, spiritual growth, personal growth and pattern-changing, Parenting Through Connection, conscious and grace-filled dying, and conflict resolution of all kinds.

"My session with Mercedes touched me deeply. Her compassion manifests a profound grace, which she combines with a bold readiness to hold your hand on a path to wholeness. I felt comforted and held as I dared to face my most inner fears, and then watched them dissolve into pure, spacious love. I feel deeply grateful for her work."
- Eytan Salinger, Social Worker, Taos, NM

"My work with Mercedes has been deeply profound and moving, in the most literal sense. In the wake of each of our sessions together, the floodgate within me opens further, and more divine love and power flows forth."
- Cliff Bain, Arroyo Hondo, NM

"I've known Mercedes for ten years. Recently, I'd been going through some intense feelings around old hurts, and Mercedes worked on it with me. I was amazed at her skill in helping me navigate through a tangle of feelings and thoughts that therapists and friends had not been able to. Experiencing Mercedes in this way reminded me of Gandalf the White, who suddenly appears as a more powerful wizard than ever. I don't know all the details of the work Mercedes has done to get to where she is now - but whatever it was - she is a truly transformational guide."
- Krista, Tennessee

"Mercedes helped us go beneath the surface, speak our truths, and bring our feelings and needs into light. She skillfully directed us away from conflict and led us into heartfelt communication and connection."
-Dona Willoughby, FNPC, RN

"I continue to be in awe at the depth of insight and healing that Mercedes guides me to in our sessions. Her courageous presence in the face of deep emotions, delicate mastery of empathy, and authentic understanding of human experience support and inspire me in discovering new depths of wholeness and empowerment."
-Anon Shine, Innkeeper

"I've seen more counselors than I care to remember, and most of it is worthless. This is different. This really helped."
-teenager, Hawaii

"Mercedes has never ceased to surprise me with the clarity and closure she's led me to. I know she's helped my former partner, too. I'm grateful for all her love, wisdom and kindness."
-Greg Bookout, Keau, Hawaii

"I feel blessed to be counseling and co-teaching with Mercedes. She has a very clear mind and an ability to empathize and understand other's emotions that makes her a truly excellent counselor. Her patience and fearlessness in working with difficult emotions makes her work both deep and effective."
-Amara Karuna, Teacher of Peer Counseling for 15 years

"It has been very helpful to have Mercedes mediate our community's decision-making process. Her timely intervention and observations have helped us to stay more focused and moving forward in our group process. Mercedes' intuitive sense of what each individual is needing, and her clear, insightful communication, have helped us have more understanding into each other and compassion in our relating."
-Briah, Intentional Community Member

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