About me
“As a woman of color, I am aware of and have experienced the harm traditional psychotherapeutic systems can cause through one-size-fits-all, cognition-centered approaches.”
Pippa’s work is rooted in somatic, holistic, and culturally responsive care, informed by WomanistCare, Buddhist practice, and her Kalenjin lineage from Kenya, which honors the body, ancestral wisdom, and the natural elements as sites of knowing and healing.
Pippa is particularly interested in cultivating the capacity to rest into, as, and through the uncertainty and chaos of being human in the modern world, designed to captivate our attention from seemingly every direction.
She is adept at meeting clients where they are and co-creating a space where the stickiest, murkiest, and most hidden parts of ourselves can emerge and be held gently, without judgment. She works with clients to cultivate the honesty and trust, within ourselves and with one another, in order to stay open as we traverse into the depths of the unconscious mind.
Pippa believes that healing is rarely about trying harder and more about loosening the grip. Many of us know what it is like to cling so tightly that letting go feels like death, or to ache for change while finding ourselves caught in the same familiar patterns despite our earnest efforts and desire to change. Rather than meeting force with force, our work is in softening and opening… to befriend and reclaim ourselves.
Pippa upholds the view that the very places we suffer most hold the seeds of our empowerment.. where the affliction can become the path to liberation.
She is experienced in working with shame, longing, heartbreak, and apathy. Through mindfulness-based practices, she helps clients cultivate honesty, acceptance, and the quiet discipline of staying through the skillful art of resting.
Pippa is an advocate of Chacruna Institute for Psychedelic Plant Medicines, in their work against the erasure & tokenization of indigenous people & cultures who have pioneered the incorporation of psychedelic medicines & ushered these very medicines into western consciousness. She works towards spreading awareness of the risks of commodifying sacred medicines without indigenous leadership. Pippa is also a board member of Crossing Thresholds’ Emerging Leaders Initiative (ELI) Through the program, she partners with eighth-grade students in Kibera and Sambalat, Kenya, co-creating and facilitating a curriculum designed to cultivate emotional intelligence, self-trust, and the confidence to lead from within. Pippa enjoys spending time in the mountains, reading sufi poetry, and thrifting.
Focus Areas
- Anxiety
- Depression
- Mood Issues
- Feeling Stuck/ deadened
- Apathy
- Stress Reduction
- Life Transitions
- Relationship Challenges
- Trauma and PTSD
- Phenomenological Honesty
- Spirituality
