My Ethics

My work is trauma-informed. I seek to help clients ground themselves, build resilience and find resources. A client makes themselves vulnerable in working with a practitioner, and a participant makes themselves vulnerable in attending a class or workshop. I am committed to developing response-ability and accountability in the use of power, and updating my practices where they are inadequate.

I am in regular supervision with experienced practitioners. I’m a member of the Association of Biodynamic Massage Therapists and the Association of Certified Sexological Bodyworkers, and the ACSB Ethics Committee.

If you experience harm in my work, I am sorry. You may want to seek support through the ACSB Grievance, Learning, Repair & Accountability Process. If they cannot support you, they may be able to signpost you towards other resources.

My work is embedded in a socioeconomic system that is a mess. I belong to an ecocidal power-over culture. A lot of the hurt and confusion we are carrying today began a long time ago, and exists on many different levels. Systemic oppression and power-over patterns show up in my (our) ways of being every day, often unconsciously. I aspire to make my work inclusive for marginalized communities, and I am open to feedback.

At the same time, we have a chance to bring awareness and change into these patterns, in every moment. We have inherited a huge store of creativity, resilience and wisdom, from many ancestors known and unknown. I aspire to be worthy of this inheritance, and to contribute towards systemic change and justice with my work.

I try to make my work financially accessible to as many people as possible. I am experimenting and evolving in this area. It’s a work in progress!

My work is only possible because of the work, teaching, support and inspiration of innumerable peers, communities, teachers and ancestors. I try to accurately acknowledge and honour the sources of my ideas and practices where possible. If I fail, please call me in.

I believe that developing new ways to do community is an ethical necessity, and I am in constant conversation with peers, teachers and supervisors. We talk about how our work may be supporting liberation, how it may be colluding in systems of oppression or harm, and how it may be doing both. The more-than-human world is sustaining me at all times, and I’m opening to new ways to be a responsible part of the earth.