RESOURCED. RESTED. INSPIRED.

You take really good care of your clients.

What if your practice truly took care of you?

radical somatics

for femme + trans therapists

transformative somatic

practice development coaching

with Phillippe Citrine

Our job is intense.

Especially in these devastating times.

Genocides happening before our very eyes.

Silencing, repression.

Climate collapse.

Economic devastation.

Attacks on our bodily autonomy.

Anti-trans legislation.

How can we keep offering sustainable care to our communities when we are shocked, horrified, struggling with our own mental health, and still need to pay the bills?

Hi there, Rad Healer!

You are wise, deep and radiant.

Even if you don’t always feel like it.

You know that transformative personal healing is required for true collective liberation. And you do life-changing work with your clients.

Remember when you dreamed of offering what you do now?

How does it feel? Is it as satisfying as you imagined?

You’ve worked really hard to get through grad school or your multi-year training program, supervision, leave your old job, and build a practice. And you are doing it!

But something isn’t quite right.

You work many long days of clients and don’t know how long you can keep it up. You end most of your days feeling a bit crunchy. You can’t remember the last time you felt truly relaxed and creative.

You love your clients but too often the work is just leaving you feeling drained. Sometimes you dread your workday even though you’re doing exactly what you set out to do. Or you know you want to shift your offer but don’t know where to start. You are making more money than ever before but somehow still living paycheck to paycheck.

Where is the freedom that you thought you would feel?

Or the financial relief you hoped for?

Where is all of the time off and adventures you long for?

Maybe you’re exhausted. Or flirting with burnout. Or maybe you even moved in together already. I’ve been there.

It is all a bit frightening.

So let’s pause for a moment.

Check in and see…do you feel open to a little dreaming?

What would you do if you had a little more time or resources?

Make more art? Plant a garden? Write that book?

Get bodywork every month? Go on more retreats?

Take all of your sacred holidays off?

Spend more time with your elders or kids?

Organize and offer mutual aid that’s not therapeutic work? Or that is?

Donate more money to radical orgs?

Go on a retreat or even a sabbatical?

Take a generous parental leave?

Move to a new place?

What about for your practice? What do you need?

Finally update your website?

Hire a bad ass consultant?

Get some help with your bookkeeping?

Do that big Somatics or IFS training?

Start saving for “retirement” for real?

Find a workspace with more natural light or even outdoor space?

The possibilities…

Resourced. Rested. Inspired.

This is my deepest longing

for you, for all of the rad therapists

and healers,

and for all of us.

I’m Phillippe Citrine (ze/zir).

Welcome to a cozy blanket fort for your practice.

We can go to a gentle mountaintop pasture, hot spring, misty ocean, or wherever you might find a little relief.

To step back and listen to what your heart is aching for. For what your soul is really yearning for these days.

I care about quality long-term mental health services for all.

I recognize that there is a crisis in quality mental health access.

I believe we desperately need more revolutionary nonbinary and femme healers who are resourced enough to stay in the work.

I support femme + trans therapists and healers in creating the life you dreamed of when you decided to become a healer or therapist…or when you went out to start your own practice.

Less drain, less grind, and less exhaustion. More ease, more rest and more play. And the funds to support your health and chosen family, now and in 10 years.

I started supporting therapists when I was a young somatic therapist myself. There were no places to go to find politicized practice building support so we were figuring it out together.

There are a lot more resources that have sprung up over the past decade.

I’ve now been professionally supporting queer and trans therapists for the past 10 years in creating sustainable and joyful practices.

I’m obsessed with the ergonomics of the healer life: How to make everything about work feel as somatically and energetically supportive to ourselves including how, when and where we work.

This doesn’t always mean easy or lighthearted but certainly sustainable, satisfying and meaningful.

Healers I have worked with have described my support as warm, encouraging, playful, intuitive, spacious, honest, practical, magical, creative, and committed.

I am a senior generative somatics practitioner and expressive arts therapist. We can get out of your head and into your heart. That is where your dreams for yourself are living.

I am gentle yet direct. Visionary yet always realistic.

I especially love working with survivors, parents, artists, cat lovers, and plant-tenders. You are my people!

How can I support your life and your practice?

Transform your practice

Transform your life

I need to tackle a specific issue or two

Maybe you have a lot of clients but need to shift your focus so you can feel re-enlivened by the work.

Or— you love offering sliding scale but know you need to figure out how to ethically raise fees. Or find new ways to up your income to be more sustainable.

Or you want to figure out how to find a different type of client.

I need a visioning overhaul

You have changed since you started your practice.

Maybe it’s your passion, your health, or you’re a parent now…you want and need different things from your life and schedule. Maybe you’re just feeling burned out even if you’re not totally sure why.

Perhaps you have talents that you are not incorporating into your practice because it doesn’t seem possible or appropriate to do so.

But how?

I get it. There are truly no easy answers in capitalism, that’s for damn sure.

Just lots of seemingly contradictory values. Like offering affordable sessions to your community…and really being able to take care of your present and future self, your health, your spirit, not just the bare minimum.

There are no individual practitioner solutions to collective problems. That’s why we need life-force left after our client work for revolution in the daily acts of mutual aid and practice of collective care for each other.

I am always amazed how someone who is outside of my own brain and predicament can notice possibilities that are harder for me to see on my own. We know that from our work. But we need it, too.

Like “maybe I could raise my fees for a few of my higher earning clients a little bit…or a lot.” But that brings up sheer terror and a stomach flip flop for most of us.

Middle and upper class clients may be unintentionally using your sliding scale to balance their budgets, leaving you living paycheck to paycheck with no safety net.

Or maybe you can’t imagine having clients that could actually pay your full rate or the higher end of your scale.

Or “maybe I could cut back my client load and try to get off work a little earlier to get some sunshine hours in. But I need to make more money to pay the bills and try to save more.”

But as we know, dear therapist, it’s so much deeper than that.

I have found that the grip of white supremacy culture can loosen a bit or a lot when we look gently and lovingly at how we’re doing what we’re doing. And what we’ve been taught this job is supposed to look like— both agency work and “private practice.” You can have support and strategy—for your practice life. From someone who’s on the path with you.

Especially for us healers. We deserve solid support for the being that is our practice, not just about how to work with clients—but how to work in our practice so our practice works for us.

Imagine: A radical therapist + healer UNION!

What would we ask for?

Imagine the picket signs: Higher wages! More time off! Paid vacation and sick time! Paid parental leave! Retirement and disability savings!

Stop the patriarchal and racist devaluing of care work!

But who are we asking?

Internalized capitalism isn’t a person. Though certain people definitely benefit from it!

So we have to bargain for you against your own internalized capitalism. (Individualism, overwork, urgency, perfectionism, you get it.)

But perhaps even more tricky, we have to bargain against the ideas about how therapists and care workers should be in this world. You know it: Work for free for many years, figure out how to live while we’re underpaid and overworked…

The parallels are kind of scary, right?

As therapists, we inhabit many roles, but we are also still workers in capitalism. I think we forget this sometimes because we have the privilege of meaningful, engaging work.

Though we have some significant professional privileges, we are still workers paid by the hour. Most of us count on our paycheck and we all have bodies and needs. As workers of the world, how do we view what we are entitled to in our vision for care workers in our communities?

What kind of life balance do you want for your clients and all the workers in our communities and our world?

Do you include yourself in this vision?

Feedback

  • Phillippe is passionate, grounded, supportive, nurturing and motivating.

    -Acupuncturist & Activist

  • The work offered a sense of joy and love with rigor!

    -Therapist & Artist

  • Phillipe has an incredible ethical compass while holding the complexity of being a care professional in late stage capitalism.

    -Therapist & Photographer

  • I can count on Phillippe for understanding and help with navigating the complexities of working within small communities.

    -Somatic Therapist & Single Mom