About
Hi, I'm Zia.
I approach the work with warmth, compassion, and clarity. I aim to help clients face the wisdom of their bodies by learning to approach the fear in their bodies and the conflict in their lives in a healthier and braver way. I'm interested in setting actionable goals for progress. Our work together isn't about becoming calmer day to day — though that happens. It's about building a practice that helps you summon bravery in your life to conquer the things that scare you — to drop into the body, step out of the mind, and access a freer, more joyful, more capable version of yourself. My work is rooted in Tibetan Buddhism but infused with methods that stretch across modalities. I also help people develop healthier communication styles and develop a more sustainable relationship with conflict. I know how to help, not just because I've studied the how but because I've done the work myself.
My path
How I learned what safety feels like
Personally, I was raised in an emotionally violent, conflict filled home — when I left, my nervous system was wired for chaos and didn't know what safety felt like. I was riddled with anxiety, panic attacks, and found myself incapable of lasting romantic relationships. I couldn't stop either exploding in conflicts or running away from them entirely. Even though I knew I wanted healthy relationships, I couldn't figure out how to sustain them. After years of therapy I understood the why of my behaviors, but that didn't make them go away. My conflicts were still cyclical; I was always circling around the same topics with different people, trying to win conversations instead of finding a way forward together. Even when I knew what my triggers were, I was incapable of stopping them from turning me into a more rage-ful, defensive, or terrified version of myself.
Eventually what I realized is that I was filled with guilt. My refusal to be wrong came from my fear. Because if I was wrong in an argument then what? Was I a bad person?
This is where sitting with my story came in. I learned to simply be with all the things swirling in my body. To witness them, to feel my guilt and shame and have compassion for the body that has lived this life. No one taught me how to be healthy and happy. That's okay — now it was time to learn.
Eventually I developed tools to witness myself in conflict, to soften my relationship with the dichotomy of right and wrong, to feel into my body when triggers arose, to know when it's time to pause, when it's time to listen, and how to explain my feelings without always needing to be correct.
It's possible to become that better version of yourself. I want you to face the things that feel hard — but with support.
What I believe
A few things I'll never stop saying
Through the thorns, to the beautiful field
Meditation and healing isn't meant to be easy. Your life may be in a serious period of discomfort, and that's okay. I'm here to guide you and support you till you get to the other side.
Learn to respond differently
The point of healing isn't to never have triggers again — it's to learn to respond differently when they appear.
Freedom and joy are trainable
They aren't personality traits you missed out on. With a real practice, they're capacities you build, session by session.
Slow is fast
No forcing, no fixing, no spiritual bypassing. A practice that lasts is built at the pace your nervous system can actually hold.
The practice I'm building
Sitting with Your Story
Everyone carries a story — about who they are, what happened to them, what's possible for them. Most of us either repeat it on loop or try to outrun it. Sitting with Your Story is a practice for a third option: meeting the story directly, feeling where it lives in the body, and loosening its grip until there's more room to be who you actually are.
- Meditation rooted in Tibetan Buddhism
- Somatic work that goes below the narrative
- Gentle inquiry — with the story, not against it
- A practice you can actually keep
Work with me
Come sit with me
Start with a guided session, or book a free 30-minute intro call and we'll see if we're a fit.