Pluto’s realm: Shadow work, sex, death & transformation
Therapy for shadow integration, sacred sexuality, spiritual death, and the underworld of the psyche
"I was up above it / Now I'm down in it" — Nine Inch Nails, Down In It
What I specialize in
I'm a licensed therapist in California specializing in depth work for people walking through Pluto's realm: the underworld of the psyche where we meet our shadows, our grief, our rage, and our power.
I work with people navigating shadow integration, sacred sexuality and erotic reclamation, spiritual death and ego collapse, karmic relationships and soul contracts that won't let go, grief that doesn't follow stages, sex work and body sovereignty, and Pluto transits and 8th house initiations.
This work is slow. Messy. Non-linear. It's the descent. The stripping away. The long reformation of self.
Why You're Here
There are parts of you you've never spoken aloud.
Memories that live in your body, your dreams, the space between wake and sleep. Desires buried under shame. Grief that no one gave you permission to name.
Maybe you're here because something happened that you're just now starting to remember. Or you're in the middle of a Pluto transit and your life is falling apart. You've always felt "too dark," "too intense," or "too much." You're healing from sexual trauma and no one else seems to get it. You've lost someone, or lost yourself, and the grief won't move.
Pluto brings all of that to the surface. Not to punish you. To return you to yourself.
What Pluto Asks of Us
Pluto is the force that strips us of everything we aren't.
It calls us into the underworld to face what we've buried: our trauma, our rage, our exiled selves. The dark night of the soul. The tower falling. The door closing with no window in sight.
I don't pathologize these moments. I honor them.
Pluto isn't trying to destroy you. It's trying to show you what's real. What's always been there. What needs to be witnessed, remembered, and reclaimed.
Sacred Sexuality & Reclaiming the Body
Pluto work is erotic work. Not in the superficial sense, but in the sacred sense, where sexuality becomes a path of healing and the body becomes a site of truth.
For survivors of sexual trauma, reclaiming sexuality isn't about "having better sex." It's about sovereignty. Pleasure. Choice. Consent. Aliveness.
This includes people whose relationship with their body and sexuality has been shaped by sex work, in any form. This is a space where you won't be pathologized or studied. We work with reclaiming autonomy, clearing what's been absorbed, and integrating the spiritual and erotic as one.
This work is also for anyone reclaiming non-normative sexuality after shame, or anyone whose sexuality was shamed, controlled, or violated.
If you're looking for deeper work specifically around sexual trauma and inner child healing, that lives on the Complex Trauma, C-PTSD & Inner Child Healing page.
Grief That Doesn't Move in Stages
Pluto holds space for grief that doesn't always have a name. Grief for who you used to be. Grief for what never happened. Grief that belongs to your mother's mother's mother. Grief as a rite of passage, not a problem to solve.
Grief is not weakness. It's a sacred form of remembrance.
(Related: Grief Tending & Ancestral Healing)
Shadow Work: Rage, Shame, Jealousy & What We Bury
Shadow work isn't just about "accepting your dark side." It's about reclaiming the parts of you that were exiled because they were too dangerous, too honest, too real.
Rage. Shame. Jealousy. Power. Desire.
These aren't "bad" emotions. They're messengers. We name what's been forbidden, give voice to what's been silenced, and reclaim your shadow as power rather than pathology.
Pluto Transits, Scorpio Placements & the 8th House
If you have strong Pluto, Scorpio, or 8th house energy in your chart, you already know this path.
It shows up as intensity, obsession, loss, a soul ache that has no name. But it's also the call to become whole, the magnetism of your truth, the rebirth you never saw coming.
Your birth chart becomes a mythic map. A reminder that this descent is not a detour. It's part of your becoming.
If you want to go deeper into your chart and what your Pluto placements or transits are activating, that work is also available through Fourth House Alchemy as a standalone astrology reading or ongoing spiritual consultation.
(Related: Astrology in Therapy)
Spiritual Death, Ego Collapse & Identity Unraveling
Sometimes Pluto's work looks like losing your sense of self. Everything you thought was true falling apart. Not recognizing yourself anymore. Feeling like you're dying even though you're still breathing.
This is spiritual death. Ego death. The dark night of the soul.
It's terrifying. And it's the doorway to rebirth, the stripping away of what was never real, the beginning of becoming who you truly are.
I don't rush you through this. I don't try to fix it. I witness it. I honor it. I hold the space as you dissolve and reform.
Karmic Relationships, Soul Contracts & Patterns That Won't Let Go
Some relationships feel fated. Obsessive. Magnetic. Impossible to leave even when they're destroying you.
These are often Plutonian bonds. Soul contracts. Karmic entanglements.
We explore why this person or pattern keeps showing up, what your soul is trying to learn, how to release without spiritual bypass, and energetic repair at the relational level.
This work overlaps with ancestral healing (inherited relationship patterns), past life themes especially around South Node work, and parts work when we're meeting the part that can't let go.
This Work Goes at Your Pace
These journeys are slow. They're destabilizing. They don't follow a treatment plan.
And still, Pluto brings us home.
I won't rush you. I won't try to fix you. I'll hold the lantern as we walk together.
Who This Work Is For
✓ Are navigating a Pluto transit or major life unraveling
✓ Have strong Scorpio, Pluto, or 8th house placements
✓ Feel called to shadow work, depth psychology, or the underworld
✓ Are reclaiming sacred sexuality after violation or shame
✓ Carry grief that doesn't have a name
✓ Are walking through spiritual death or ego collapse
✓ Feel "too dark," "too intense," or "too much" for traditional therapy
✓ Are healing from sexual trauma (see also: Complex Trauma, C-PTSD & Inner Child Healing)
Related Work You May Resonate With: Complex Trauma, C-PTSD & Inner Child Healing · Grief Tending & Ancestral Healing · Therapy for Neurodivergent & Highly Sensitive People · Depth Therapy for Mystics, Healers & Spiritual Seekers · Motherhood, Matrescence & the Mother Wound · Ancestral Healing & the Mother/Father Wound · Astrology in Therapy
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You don't have to explain why you were drawn here. Pluto already knows.

