About

We are devoted to the co-creation of a more compassionate world—an intimate revolution rooted in a culture of care, connection, and belonging, where all people are supported in developing a loving and affirming relationship with themselves, one another, and the more-than-human world. We envision a world in which healing is understood as both deeply personal and inherently relational; where our emotional lives, histories, cultures, identities, relationships, communities, and connections to the natural world are recognized as meaningful dimensions of wellbeing. We envision spaces where grief can be honored, dreams can be tended with intention, and people can gather in community to remember the wisdom, resilience, and traditions carried across generations. 

Our clinical vision is rooted in the belief that each person possesses inherent dignity, worth, wisdom, and capacity for growth. Through culturally responsive, trauma-informed, identity-affirming, and relationally grounded care, we seek to create therapeutic spaces where people can explore who they are without judgment or pathologization, develop greater self-understanding and self-compassion, and move toward lives that are congruent with their values, identities, relationships, & hopes. 

We hold ritual, reflection, and meaningful connection as practices of healing and integration. When desired and appropriate to the client, these practices can create opportunities to reconnect with what provides meaning, purpose, belonging, and a sense of connection to something larger than the individual self. In this process, we may gently loosen the expectations, narratives, and survival strategies that have shaped us and create greater freedom to discover and inhabit ways of being that feel authentic and self-determined. 

At the heart of this vision is a commitment to behavioral health care that honors the whole person. We aspire to cultivate a clinical home where people are met with curiosity rather than assumptions, where difference is not pathologized, where cultural and lived experience are recognized as sources of knowledge, and where healing is understood not simply as the absence of symptoms, but as the cultivation of connection, agency, meaning, belonging, and possibility. 

Elizabeth Suzanne Shapiro, LCSW

Elizabeth is a queer Jewish neurospicy therapeutic ritualist & mother, born and raised in New York City. Her developmental and educational experiences were embedded within multicultural environments, which contributed to an early and sustained engagement with marginalized communities. She graduated with a Masters in Social Work from the Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College in New York City in 2014. She completed her undergraduate studies in Psychology at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia in 2009. She is a certified Yoga Teacher and Master Level Reiki Practitioner and Alchemical Healing Practitioner. She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and clinical Supervisor.

Elizabeth has over a decade of experience supporting individuals, families, and communities in navigating mental health challenges and the enduring impacts of trauma. She maintains a strong commitment to decolonizing her therapeutic practice and advancing equity in mental health care. Her work centers on supporting those impacted by systemic oppression in contextualizing their experiences, strengthening resilience, and engaging in meaningful, culturally responsive, whole-person healing.

Elizabeth is the steward of The Sanctuary and Red Tent in Eugene, where she facilitates circles, workshops, and immersive courses. These offerings explore themes of feminine empowerment and initiation, ritual and self-compassion, grief work, shadow integration, and the reclamation of imagination as a pathway for personal and collective transformation. 

Elizabeth completed a vision fast in Death Valley, Nevada in 2015 as a personal initiation connecting her deeper to herself, her earth mother, and the Great Mystery. Rites of the Heart was part of the medicine received during her time on the land. Elizabeth later spent six years as a guide supporting wilderness-based rites of passage for adolescents, supporting youth navigating connection to self, connection to spirit, and connection to the natural world.

Elizabeth draws inspiration from her ancestral spiritual teachings and technologies. She is deeply committed to the reclamation of meaningful rites of passage, and the creation of inclusive, accessible approaches to spirituality and healing. 

It is through ritual that we know spirit. It is through ritual we know ourselves.

Your soul can’t wait any longer.

Are you ready to embody your divine wisdom?

Are you ready to awaken your ritual intelligence?

Let me know how I can support you and your precious heart
in this experience of being human.