Alexis Slutzky

Alexis (she/her) is a threshold guide working at the confluence of healing and social change. For over twenty five years she has been supporting youth and adults, individually and in groups, to reimagine relationships and deepen intimacy with the self, each other, the natural world and the mystery. She weaves together years of experience in depth oriented practices and frameworks – including depth psychology, somatics, trauma work, mindfulness, ecology, dream work, grief tending, ritual and ceremony, nature intimacy, equity and social justice. Alexis has partnered with a variety of people, communities and organizations to create spaces of deep listening, authentic communication and transformative community practices. Including with non-profit organizations, retreat centers, women combat veterans, assisted living facilities, community mental health clinics, public and private schools and universities, juvenile detention centers, homeless shelters, domestic violence shelters, international peace projects, a variety of wilderness settings and private practice. Her work is informed by years of mindfulness practice, her own healing journey, anti-racism and anti-oppression frameworks and a long apprenticeship to the wild within and without. Alexis brings presence, compassion, humor to the human experience. She received her master’s degree in Depth Counseling Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute where she teaches and holds council circles from time to time. She also serves as Adjunct Faculty at Antioch University where she teaches at the intersection of social justice, psychology, and ecology. She is a former yoga teacher, truck driver, natural builder and psychotherapist, and was licensed as a Marriage and Family Therapist for over fifteen years. A descendant of Celtic, Ashkenazi, and Germanic relatives, she lives in the Mission Creek watershed in the chapparal woodlands of Southern California in the traditional territory of the Chumash people.