About Wren

Wren is on a decades long journey to become a more integrated, playful, grief-honoring and embodied human, contributing to a more just and connected world. Wren is passionate about supporting people to grow and heal so they can feel more fulfilled and deeply connected to themselves and others in their lives. Wren recognizes that individual healing is important but not the end goal. Ultimately, the hope is that it moves us in a direction of more compassionate, healthy and non-oppressive systems, workplaces, families, relationships, and lineages.

Wren identifies as white, pansexual, non-binary (they/she), and able-bodied. They have been a Parent Educator and Integral Coach since 2012 and added in the Internal Family Systems model starting in 2020. Wren brings warmth, insight, and a deep trust in the wisdom and capacity to heal of each person they work with. Wren endeavors to bring an anti-oppression lens to their coaching, looking at where ideas of inferiority and superiority are affecting our relationships with ourselves and others, including the more-than-human world. One of Wren’s specialties is supporting those integrating psychedelic or empathogenic experiences and navigating major life transitions.

Wren is a Certified Internal Family Systems Practitioner, including advanced training in Intimacy From the Inside Out (an IFS model for working with dyads). Additionally, they receive regular consultation from a certified IFS Consultant and are a Program Assistant for IFSI Level One and Two trainings. Wren became a Certified Course Facilitator with the Neufeld Institute in 2018 and received certification as an Integral Coach through New Ventures West in 2012. Wren has taken the introduction to Treating Internalized Oppression and their education includes a BA from Evergreen State College, with a focus on decolonizing psychology. Other studies that have deeply influenced Wren’s life and work include the work of Bill Plotkin and Animas Valley Institute, Daniel Foor’s Ancestral Healing work, the Enneagram, Joanna Macy, Leticia Nieto, Resmaa Menakem, and Francis Weller.

Wren’s spiritual orientation is nature devotion, ancestral connection, entheogens, and being a ceremonialist. Their passions include play, decolonizing psychology, shadow work, community care and healing together, circle technology, dance, grief tending, singing, anti-oppression and mutual liberation work/learning, growing food, swimming in oceans, lakes and rivers, rites of passage and nature-based healing.

Recent Trainings:

• Creating Healing Circles™: Using the IFS Model in Group Therapy- 5 day- August 2024

• Relational Life Therapy- Level One (therapeutic couples model)- July 2024

• Internal Family Systems- Level Two- Shame, Anxiety, and Depression- January 2024

• Entering the Healing Ground: Grief Ritual Training- September 2023- January 2024

• Advanced Intimacy From the Inside Out- Sexuality Matters, 1 day, November 2023

• Advanced Weekend: Mastering IFS - Deepening your Core Practice- April 2023

• Intimacy From the Inside Out: IFS Advanced Training- Strengthening the Basics- March 2023

• Working with Sex and Sexuality using an IFS Framework- June/July 2022

• Intimacy From the Inside Out, Internal Family Systems Level 2- May 2022-Sept 2022

• Intro to Treating Internalized Oppression- May 2022

• Internal Family Systems- Level One- Sept 2020-July 2021

• Transformative Reflection for Equity-Minded Supervision and Consultation- 2-day, October 2020

• Guiding Apprenticeship with Rite of Passage Journeys Adult Vision Fast- August 2020

• Webinar: Using Culturally Responsive, Trauma-Informed Practices to Partner with Families and Communities During COVID-19, June 2020

• Power, Privilege and Decision-Making Processes- May 2020

• How to Operationalize a Racial Equity Toolkit- February 2020

• Trauma-informed and healing centered engagement for racial equity- December 2019

• Equity-Driven Approaches to Talking with Families About Their Child's Development- Nov. 2019

• Psychobiology of Systemic Oppression- November 2019

• Peer to Peer Group Facilitator Training- October 2019

• Personal Wilderness Quest- Rite of Passage Journeys- August 2019

• Neufeld Institute Coursework and Facilitator Training 2012-18

• Coming Home to an Animate World- Animas Valley Institute- 2017

• Certification as an Integral Coach from New Ventures West- 2012