Hello, and thank you for your interest in my therapeutic coaching practice. I graduated with honors from the University of Central Florida with a Bachelors of Science degree in Psychology and later went on to pursue training and certification as a Creative Depth Coach with my mentor Cat Caracelo of Journey Path Institute. The initial, year long program of studying depth psychology and process art therapy through a coaching lens changed the entire course of my life and allowed me to acquire the skills to meet clients from a holistic, person-centered perspective. My work with clients is deeply relational, strengths-based, values-oriented, eclectic and down-to-earth.

I am also trained at the master-student level in the art of reiki with my mentor Rachel Chase of Rachel Chase Healing Arts. Learning how to utilize energy medicine was one of the most simple and profound experiences of my life. I very grateful for this way of connecting to universal power of love and healing. Some of my other studies include the eye-opening read of The Power of Now by Eckart Tolle, Hatha yoga practice with Rob Walsh of Black Bear Yoga, traditional birth keeping with Whapio of The Matrona, functional family wellness with Jennifer Tow of Holistic IBCLC, community education found within The Light House curated by Emilee Saldaya of The Freebirth Society, yoga nidra with Scott Moore Yoga, archetypal somatics with Melissa Meader of Synchrosoma, Mayan cosmology with Ricardo Sun Eagle of Cosmic Tolteca, holistic women’s health through The Blood Mysteries with Nancy Lucina and Kristin Hauser of The Freebirth Society, grief work through Francis Weller’s book The Wild Edge of Sorrow and the teachings within the book Portal by Yolanda Norris Clark. I’m grateful to share I have also grown through many years of individual & group therapy, self-work, and good ol’ lived experience.

I am currently pursuing ordination as a gnostic minister of spiritual health with Adeenah Hammer of The Feminine Healing Ministries and I am blessed to lead small groups focused on grief integration and women’s fellowship. My relationship with the divine is a contemplative, and yet body-based, practice. It is highly inclusive, non-dogmatic and seeks to hold space for all integrous ways of walking with God. I see the act of shared, divine contemplation as the highest honor to behold. I love to see how other people pray and uniquely connect with Creation.

As a native Floridian, I grew up enjoying natural places like New Smyrna Beach, the St. John’s River, gardens, small lakes, and many local springs. My love for, and connection with, the outdoors has been a grounding, and supremely orienting relationship that sets the foundation for everything else in my life.

Coming from a family rich with talented artists, I understand the beauty, and the potential stress involved in the call to share our innate creativity with the world. I have learned to enjoy art for the sake of the personal experience, the process itself, not necessarily the finished product. I find that approaching art-making (or intuitive, creative expression, if you will) in this way to be very freeing, which allows the fun back in, like the finger-painting of my childhood. I believe our relationship with “art” can be transformed into a playful, restorative experience that unshackles the mind, awakens the body, and heals the soul. I have seen this to be true for my clients as well.

In my free time, I enjoy reading, cooking with my partner, swimming and hiking with my daughters, thrift stores, art shows, sunbathing, studying herbalism & homesteading, watching the sunrise and sunset, sitting in prayer, and envisioning my forever home on a little piece of land with all the plants and all the animals. I also spend time supporting other Mama-owned, small businesses as a remote consulting assistant. Lastly, it my honor to support and walk with women through pregnancy, birth and postpartum as a sovereign, radical birth keeper.

I give deep thanks to all of the friends, family, mentors, lovers, strangers, and “adversaries” who have stepped into my life as powerful teachers and guides along the journey of becoming thus far.

I believe that every experience (e.g. family addiction dynamics, personal health crisis, and heart-breaking divorces) have the potential to positively benefit one’s life and opportunities for growth & understanding. I am intent on helping others step out of their own drama and discover the immense potential of radical self-responsibility for their unique, RESILIENT life path.

Thank you for being here. Thank you for supporting my practice.

With love & creative resilience,

Alison Rockwell, CCDC