Hello, I'm Flea.

 

 I am a Dancer. From a young age, I have danced in my bedroom to connect with and release my feelings. I inherited the need to release the intensity of emotions and oppression that my parents carried. I am the daughter of a Black man who faced racism on his journey to become a physician and healer. I am the daughter of a White woman who faced sexism on her path to becoming a lawyer advocating for diversity and equity in criminal justice and the workplace. Now, I dance to heal my ancestors, myself, and communities.

 

I am a Healer. By moving my feelings with dance, words, and nature, I discovered I could move from numbness to aliveness. My father taught me the power of the body to move and heal. In dealing with multiple losses, including the deaths of my parents and dealing with uterine cancer, I put this lesson into action. By dancing with my feelings,  I could make space for my grief from losing my parents to the health impacts of  prolonged racism and sexism and sacrificing my own uterus. 

 

I am a Lover. I love connecting with people through emotions, movement, and nature. My mother taught me to focus my emotional passion on caring for people by raising their critical consciousness and awareness of social issues. Now, I've added my own twist by focusing on the body, feelings, and nature. Nature teaches me that everything is connected and guides me to support others in seeing and strengthening our interconnectedness. Through discovering my ties to nature, I am becoming an advocate for emotional intelligence, somatic awareness, and critical consciousness.

 

My Approach and Training

I approach my work in a holistic manner. Somatics and nature-based healing approaches, including Karen Roeper’s Essential Motion and Raynelle Rino’s Radical By Nature, inspire my offerings. Becoming a healer with embodied listening and movement as my tools, I have unearthed ways to call upon nature for support to enhance my own and others' goals/visions while tapping into interconnectedness. My offerings include higher educational consulting, grief work, and somatic life and career coaching. My coaching approach is based on the belief that helping individuals and groups to draw upon their bodies, minds, and hearts empowers them to make fully informed and intentional choices for their growth.  

 

My professional journey through higher education fuels my curiosity to find ways to build emotional awareness and critical consciousness to disrupt oppressive systems and foster healing. With 15+ years working in higher education as a program coordinator, counselor, career advisor, educator and trainer, I discovered the need to integrate mental and physical wellness and critical analysis to deepen the impact of my work. I'm a lifelong learner who seeks a wide variety of training to support my work. Key learnings include becoming an ICF Associate Certified Life Coach and an Essential Motion Certified Leader, completing Radical by Nature training and earning my M.S. in Counseling. Along the way, I have pursued specific training in College and Career Counseling as well as training to serve neurodiverse communities.