Siena Tenisci (she/her)

Across time and cultures, the practice of holding rituals to mark significant life events and transitions has been foundational to maintaining individual and communal wellbeing. Today, we are left with an unconscious longing for something we may not even realize we’ve lost: guidance, elder wisdom, and frameworks for navigating these profound transformations that shape our lives. I believe that acknowledging and honoring moments of birth, growth, union, and loss are vital to our wellbeing.

I am committed to a lifelong practice of cultural sensitivity and to dismantling systemic and internalized oppression. I understand that systemic and internalized oppression can greatly impact mental health and well-being. Many discover that by acknowledging and addressing internalized oppression, they can begin to reclaim their identities, challenge oppressive narratives, and work towards personal and collective liberation.

I am co-founder of Pacific Healing Circles, an organization that offers community grief rituals to honor the many different forms of loss – big and small. This may include personal loss, change and transitions, collective sorrows (environmental, political, racial, cultural), loss of village and belonging, ancestral grief, and more. I believe that tending to unprocessed grief can reconnect people back to each other and to what truly matters.

Mindfulness & bioenergetic therapies promote the connection between the mind and body through a range of somatic techniques that facilitate emotional release and body awareness. How this might support your goals: - Learning movement, breath work, and grounding techniques - Enhancing self-awareness - Releasing emotional blocks - Improving emotional regulation - Increasing connection to self - Enhancing relationships

An evidence-based therapy for building skills that address unhelpful patterns of thinking and behavior through a range of structured, collaborative therapeutic techniques. How this might support your goals: - Improving self-esteem - Addressing negative or unhelpful thought patterns - Developing new coping skills - Build healthy habits and routines - Increasing accountability - Asserting healthy boundaries - Reducing anxiety, depression, or chronic pain

Please note that I am not an ISF-certified therapist. I use ISF-informed parts work to help individuals integrate and heal the various “parts” within themselves – inner child parts, protective parts, or even seemingly conflicting parts – while accessing their core, authentic self. How this might support your goals: - Increasing self-compassion - Healing childhood wounds & shame - Learning corrective inner-parenting - Restoring internal balance for a more authentic, fulfilling, & empowered life