Commitment to curiosity + radical imagination.
we never act alone….
Be grief, be sorrow, be weary, be joyous, being with whatever arises.
Hello, my name is lysa mosca, I entered the world with an attunement to suffering and joy. I'm no stranger to life sorrows, however the takedowns are far less often and the lessons are mostly welcome.
I am compost of millenia, south-italian and scot/irish ancestors whisper from deep within assimilated blood and bone. White bodied being of multi-racial/ethnic family. Creative, daughter, mother, grandmother of pausal middle age. A guest? to Abenaki lands of so-called Vermont. My lived experiences have led me to touch into, to bear with-ness, to be in not knowing of all my kin; animal, soil/plant, human, sky and with these relations comes expressions of deep sorrows and joys. I celebrate grief and praise and the opportunities of being born into wildly imperfect times and relations.
I see and listen with both/and. You can read as queering possibilities of all our relations, that we are infinite in our capacities for love and care for ourselves, each other, and our worlds. I experience self care and community care as integral practices that nourish life and death ways. I am excited by solo practices and group togetherness where holding complexity/nuance and tension are centered. Hearing what is real with each other. I align with ways of listening and responding, creative making to manifest what is not yet visible and being with the ineffable.
I am less interested in the exceptional individual and more intrigued by our mundane relational life ways and re-enchanting our response-abilities.
At the end of a day how are we caring with each other?
I have found that loving and learning happen when authenticity and wholehearted living collide in communion with each other. My daily practice is in relation with our more than human and human kin, contemplative/reflective practices, art making, movement, pain and suffering, and praise for the mundane of everyday living. My first love and language is playing with moss, leaves and soil and creative making which informs my understanding of relational experiences that center earth as an embodiment of natural law.
Despair and distress are human responses that offer information embedded in networks of relations including one’s ways of being, sense making, epi/genetics, spiritual, social systems, systemic oppressions, cultural and ancestral presence.
I am committed to feedback as a mutually supportive practice. My ongoing practice is an act of radical collaborative reflection and restoration of our human hearts. I am inspired by my co-creative experiences as mother, grandmother, artist, seeker, intuitive, worker, walker, with-ness to kin relations, lover, questioner, practitioner.
I am a trauma-conscious therapist with a Master’s in Counseling and Psychology with specialized training in radical social psychologies, collaborative network approach, somatic approaches, mindfulness, non-ordinary states, and expressive arts. My work is deeply influenced by ancestral healing practices and nature-based connection, supporting people to navigate life transitions with greater ease and self-compassion. With over 20 years of experience, I create spaces where healing is not about perfection, but about deepening into presence, relational support, and self-trust.
I lean toward views and practices that are whole person and ecologically centered that support and honor a persons lived experiences. I understand that mental health labels/diagnoses and medication use offer ways to make sense of mental health experiences and access relief toward wellbeing. I see health as inextricably nested in ways of being in relationship to self, each other, and our world. That western ideas of health and diagnostic labels can be supportive and descriptive as one of many ways of understanding human experience. Human expressions are nested in complex biopsychosocial, cosmological, and ecological relations. Different communities interpret health differently.
There is no one size fits all!