My name is
Violet Moon.
Violet Moon.
I am a fighter, feeler, and healer. I connect deeply with life and the things we can’t see. I walk this life curious, queer, genderless (they/them), and French-American. I love to hang out with my cat, walk when its raining, read stories about magic, and dance. And although I am often crying in the woods or praying in centuries-old cities, the ocean is my favorite place.
Unpacking Impact
As someone with white, thin, phsyically-able bodied, European-American privilege:
Internalized supremacist bias and colonizer conditioning provides the option to avoid crucial, relational-mending conversations (that might otherwise be inherent to someone else's existence). This degree of selective ignorance creates a substantial barrier for collective healing.
Further, I cannot understand the impact of ancestral, generational, and systemic trauma that accompanies being a person of color nor the byproduct of intentional systemic annihaltion due to race and/or heritage. There is trauma I do not and won't ever know.
Additionally, as someone who works with our Earth as a healing resource, recognizing the history embued in the soil of that land is a key aspect of honoring its contributions. Meaning, when I offer support in the now referenced city of Houston, I am practicing on the native lands of the Coahuiltecan, Karankawa, Sana, Ishak (Atakapa), Atakapa, and Karankawa people. Their lives on this land are a presence that cannot be erased.
In my practice understanding someone else’s suffering is not a prerequisite for offering and providing care. Education, respect, active empathy, reflection, and responsibility for the role I play in the revolution of healing— influence how I show up for the people who need and seek my help.
Equally, this may mean I am not the clinician for you. AND THAT'S OKAY.
What we can do, is get you the community resources, support, and safety you have deserved from the beginning.
My (Life/Healing) Approach
Compassionate
Throughout the process of building our relationship, trust, honesty, and openness are the cornerstones. I will be genuine in my self-expression, with the hope of creating a place for you to feel safe exploring the same. Together, we’ll find ways to celebrate what makes us human (and in a way, divine) — embracing this vulnerability as a strength as we delve into your experiences and strive towards your goals.
Relational
I focus on helping individuals uncover and embrace their true selves, recognizing their inherent worth and potential in relation to others. I will cocreate paths with you from self-awareness to self-acceptance— to set the foundation for meaningful and fulfilling relationships. The hope here is that by strengthening individual identity and mutual respect, trust, and compassion— our internal AND external world becomes a safe, fulfilling place to be.
Creative
I often pull from non-traditional methods such as nature, dance, and spirituality to address trauma at its core. This is because, often, the impact of trauma (and thus the role of healing) goes beyond the mind— so we need tools that connect us back to our body, and to our Self. Using the natural world, somatic practices, and your inherent creativity allows us to nurture deep inner healing and foster a renewed sense of connection within yourself.
Spiritual
Acknowledging the depth of the human spirit means honoring the sacred in each person. This means cocreating an environment where spirituality becomes a powerful catalyst for healing through ancestral, psychic, and/or generational wisdom. In practice, we go beyond the cognitive and verbal to invite deeper self-exploration through the spirit practices that align with you. All with the focus to channel the inherent power, agency, and purpose already within you.
Credentials
Chill Counseling Counselor Intern
Supervised by Cori Hill, LPC LMFT
Thematic Lab with Stanley Ollivier on Energy & Care
P.A.R.T.S Summer Residency in Belgium
Individual Foundations of Expressive Arts Therapy 1 & 2
Center For Creative Arts Therapy
Training Acceptance
Somatic Experiencing® International
Mandated Reporter for Mental Health Professionals
California Department of Social Services
Masters in Clinical Mental Health Counseling
Palo Alto University, Jun 2024
Recovery Mentor & Program Co-Creator
Healing For Eating Disorders
Dance Therapy Educator
The Monarch Institute
Professional Movement Artist
Freelance, LEON Contemporary, Revolve Dance Company
Integrative Neurolinguistic Programming (iNLP) Practitioner
The Empowerment Partnership
Background
My therapy background comes from a Masters in Clinical Mental Health Counseling, and signifcant training in Western mental health practices. Within this framework, I prioritize safety and autonomy, fostering healing through a multually built relationship to help others reclaim (and often discover) self after lifetimes of horrific, indescribable trauma. In this work, I rely on integrating Western therapeutic techniques such as Person-Centered, Liberation-Based, and Compassion-Focused therapies while pulling tools from Somatic-Experiencing, Expressive Arts Therapy, and Play Therapy models.
Further, my career as a professional movement artist (performing, choreographing, and touring) provides me with a unique lens through which to understand and process emotions, trauma, and healing. Today, the focus of movement is about the physicality but a profound somatic understanding and externalization of felt human experience. Dancing and choreographing challenge my creativity and deepen my connection to the nuances of body awareness, allowing emotions and trauma to be felt, held, processed and released without always needing language.
As both a therapist and professional dancer, my embodied understanding of emotion has deepened my ability to distinguish between intuitive insight and trauma response. It is an unique perspective that allows me to help clients cultivate a trusting relationship with their bodies and their inner voices. In session, I support clients in recognizing and expressing their boundaries, experiences, desires, and hopes to nurture personal identity and healing from, with, and alongside of trauma. It is an approach used to set the foundation for enhanced relational sessions by fostering genuine communication and deeper, more loving connections between partners.