1-to-1 Sessions
People seem to find me when they sense that another Life is possible — and they’re choosing if they want to Live it.
Meeting formats are individual and intuitive, but we tend to use things like:
Somatic awareness & guidance
Parts work & Process work
Imaginal perception
Ritual craft
Following intuitive threads
Tracking and moving energy
Attention-craft
Reconnecting with Eros
Shootin’ the breeze
Depending on the person, we can pull in things like mantra, meditations, journeying, nature work, art, and intuitive oddities that crop up as we go. Some people love these options and come to me explicitly for them, others have zero interest. Personally I love it, don’t be afraid to ask.
Clients Say:
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I have so little to say about it in the best way. It feels so hard to say anything about it in a way that honors its intimacy.
— Y
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River is... well, it's hard to describe what exactly River does. It's not therapy, it's not coaching in the ways I've understood it, it's deep in Secret Third Thing territory. River feels like a sort of custodian of gateless gates. We worked together for two months, and in that time he helped me get unblocked in a bunch of directions at once. River creates a space where what needs to emerge can do so, and offers thoughts about it.
— @mykola on Twitter
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I think what River excels at is creating a space where certain kinds of things can come up and be welcomed and explored - it's a sort of safety, but not simply safety because he's also opinionated and human and there is a sort of edge in some ways to the safety that in some ways made it even more helpful than a more sterile "this is a safe space" sort of thing?
— K
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River helped me to process a lot of complex emotions in ways that both echoed and subverted the more typical "how does that feel in your body?" therapeutic process. I appreciated that he was able to roll with my own complex, multi-modal approach to stuff - bouncing between somatic and symbolic and cognitive and mythic and etc as parts of an underlying rhizome.
— 2-month client
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It felt like an energetic/symbolic improv -- but the improv crew is not just [River] and me on Zoom. It’s also archetypal energies, rituals or narratives that emerge, places from the-land-where-mystics-hang, friendly-trees-from-the-hood jumping in to say hello.
— Milan
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The world asks a f***ing lot of you, eh? You enabled the movement of a mountain in my consciousness today, and I'm imagining you just looking around, dusting your shoulders off, and being like 'alright, cool, is there anything else?'
— 1-session client
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Working with River was like working with a loving older brother — no coercion of any sort when teaching, lots of room for free thought and stories, yet very much tracing a strong thread of what imaginal practice can be for oneself
— Sami Husseni
Reactions from My Group Work
I enjoy running group cohorts, and I’m good at it.
If you’re interested in pulling a group together to learn and practice in a cohort with me, I absolutely love following threads of interest with small groups (4-7 people).
These sometimes take a shape like group coaching sessions — and sometimes more like a tailor-made course in a shared area of interest.
If you’ve got a group and an interest in something you think you could learn about with me, get in touch and we’ll find a format.