M. McCubbins
Intuitive Counseling, Coaching, + Consulting
Intuitive Counseling, Coaching, + Consulting
Dear beloved,
I have been longing to connect with you, reaching for you across time, space, and realm- perhaps even answering your call. Like you, I arrive to this moment, shaking and afraid. But after years of practice, fear finally isn’t powerful enough to stop me from embodying my truth.
We are on and beyond time. We are the ones, calling ourselves deeper and deeper into the present, from the past and the future. We are cycles, learning more and more about our nature as we spiral in and out of control. We are more and enough.
Every cell in our body is destined for growth.
Every ancestor is at our back, offering unprecedented, unwavering support.
Every descendant is at their altar, preparing a space for us to come through.
Our contributions are ready for us to bring them forward now.
Remembering is worthwhile. It is possible and necessary to be who we are. As we embody our purpose and weave our purposes together, we co-create a tapestry of divine design. This tapestry drapes over the world, incubating us all in a multigenerational legacy of healing and repair.
Welcome. My name is M. I am an Intuitive Counselor, Coach, and Consultant providing spiritual resourcing, liberatory accompaniment, and visionary guidance for apocalyptic times.
As a Liberatory Priestexx, I tend to the undercurrent of our collective body and labor in deeply felt realms. I listen for what floats right below our conscious awareness, awaiting compassionate integration and review. My offerings are abundant, designed to make my unique skills, gifts, strengths, and teachings visible and accessible, while also meeting a wide variety of community needs. Through ten years of practice, I have identified and fine-tuned the most meaningful, heartfelt contributions I can make to the collective- my hope is to make those contributions more available for you to access here.
I am a community-accountable* practitioner (*thank you to the beloved Alexis Pauline Gumbs for this life-affirming term and orientation towards life/work), meaning my offerings are emergent and evolve in direct response to community need. I am accountable to the communities I am from and practice within, and specialize in opening and stewarding portals of connection that transcend oppressive, hierarchical norms that have attempted to decimate the sacred bonds we are here to build on Earth. From a place of deep listening, I’ve created a wide variety of containers, called offerings, to help hold and guide our work together. I keep my offerings specific enough to provide clarity, yet nimble and spaciousness enough so I can adapt them to meet your vastness and respond to your emergent needs.
My current offerings include
Reparations and Redistribution Facilitation (TBA)
Whiteness Coaching (TBA)
I sometimes craft special offerings, aligned with the stars, seasons, and political and cultural moments. To stay informed about these offerings, follow me on Instagram @ancestralconnectioncoach or sign up for my newsletter at the bottom of this page.
I work 1-1, with groups and individuals. Many of my offerings require a three-six month container (or a 8-12 session commitment) minimum in order create the greatest possible benefit for you. Often, I am able to accommodate general inquiries or special requests for services/offerings that are not listed on my page. If you’d like to chat about crafting an offering or working with me in a way that is not listed on my page, please email me at m.mccubbins@pm.me. My practice is currently virtual. I see clients via Zoom. I also offer an option for Signal video chats for folks who would prefer using an encrypted platform. I am available for house, land and site visits on Turtle Island, in the Midwest and in the South on a case by case basis.
My offerings synthesize my own lived experience in fortifying my spiritual truth, as well as my experience as an anti-carceral social worker, care worker, and spiritual practitioner who has supported hundreds of visionaries, spiritualists, seekers, activists, creatives, care workers, and survivors as they steward their own self-determined visions of healing. My offerings are shaped also by my involvement in movements to end and transform violence- including movements for reproductive justice, transformative justice, and restorative justice- where I have provided heart-centered, Spirit-first leadership, visioning, and strategizing support to collectives, grassroots orgs, non-profits, foundations, and emerging initiatives.
I am a student of Indigenous lifeways and spiritual traditions across cultures. I hold multi-cultural spiritual literacy because it is important to me to shapeshift my skills and practice to meet folks of all lineages, wisdom traditions, and identities. I center, revere, and cherish Blackness and Indigeneity in my work because I am accountable to pasts, presents, and futures where Black and Indigenous people are protected, nourished, cared for, and resourced. I bring a mature yet ever-evolving racial, political, gender, class, age, and disability consciousness to my work, which allows me to be deeply present with the realities shaping our experiences, as well as points of reference for understanding what is possible from within them. I apply my inherited gifts as an oracle/seer with my skills as a writer, artist, and care worker to provide dynamic care and resourcing for all. My embodied experiences surviving oppression, holding privilege, and navigating power help me understand the complexities, contradictions, nuances, and multitudes we all carry. My work aims to help us make peace with our existence, maintain our dignity, and fortify our commitments in unveiling* times. (*thank you to the beloved adrienne maree brown for articulating this specific and resonate framework in 2017).
As an intentionally non-licensed, non-clinical community care practitioner, I provide services that are accountable to my clients and communities, not the government, colonial licensing bodies, or the state. I work with a wide range of modalities, including tarot, astrology, herbalism, bibliomancy, mediumship, energy work, ancestral reverence, therapeutic witnessing + guidance, affirmation, and politicized somatics, as well as Internal Family Systems, decolonized attachment theories, and inner parts work. As we move deeper and deeper into the co-creation of a world that serves us all, we need sturdy, adaptable, and versatile containers that nourish and equip us with the spiritual, emotional, and practical skills necessary to lead our most liberatory lives. Together, we can find a harmonious relationship to all that has passed, all that is to come, and all that exists.
If you feel called to work with me, my prayer is that you make a reach. The opportunity to work with you is a gift you give to me, and I treat your time, energy, and presence with the utmost reverence and care. I honor your life force and long to make space for it, for you, in the most adaptive, expansive, and nourishing ways I can. I want to be someone who is in your corner through the seasons. Consider me an ongoing resource as you awaken, become, return, remember, and repair.
Please note, all images on my website are art or photography created by me. I invite you to engage this art as a visual spell. If you’d like to use or share it for educational or healing purposes elsewhere, please credit me and/or reach out about a resourcing exchange. <3
We can survive apocalypse, empire crumbling, relational rupture & repair, personal transformation, political chaos, & climate change with agency, dignity, and grace.
As a Liberatory Priestexx, I specialize in facilitating dynamic and healing relationships between humanity and divinity, ensuring no brilliant, vulnerable, or integral part of us is diminished, dulled, exiled, or left behind. I consider your existence a miracle and experience you as an Earth being, traversing your path with courage and bravery- and also, as an iteration of God who is perfect, unique, and creative in every way. I provide care for your energetic and Earthly body (and/or the energetic and Earthly body of your collective, org, or business) through spiritual resourcing, using grounding, collaborative, and nourishing approaches such as co-processing, visioning, storytelling, intuitive movement, liberatory visioning, and more. I understand you in the context of your lineage, identities, traumas, dreams, hopes, fears, and gifts. I move based on my own intuition, wisdom from my guidance systems, best spiritual and ethical practices, as well as information offered up by you. I honor what you express you need or don’t need in a moment, abide by your boundaries, and practice consent. Part of what makes working with me so meaningful is the opportunity to be witnessed deeply and completely in ways that are affirming and aligned for you.
I work through a wide variety of lenses- literally! If you can imagine a pair of glasses with 8 or 9 different transitional lenses, each offering the ability to see a different aspect of reality- that’s a bit what seeing the world through my senses is like! I can quickly and holistically access the social, political, psychological/mental, historical, cultural, interpersonal, environmental, ancestral, spiritual, and material contexts of our conditions, and use this perspective to support our journeying in various realms. I am also someone who moves in intimate relationship with ancestors, descendants, spirits, guides, natural beings, and energies, which reside in and outside of my body and make themselves known and available to me for important communications.
I am skilled in opening and fostering portals for ancestral connection, creating compassionate and expansive containers for metabolizing personal and collective trauma, and noticing and directing us towards areas for emotional and spiritual growth. I help us make liberatory meaning of our embodiment, understanding why we are on Earth at this particular moment of space/time, and connect us to our capacity to conjure possibility amidst systemic oppression. I care about mapping the impact of our aliveness across time and space and fostering sustainable spiritual practices that resonate with our ancestors, descendants, and living kin. I help us see our gifts, wounds, patterns, blockages, and blessings a little more clearly.
I set the ongoing intention to be a grounding, activating, and nurturing presence in your life, sharing wisdoms, strategies, and teachings that make it feel more easeful and possible for you to root deeper and deeper into who you are. My priority is to provide reliable, compassionate, and trustworthy witnessing as you explore what’s possible for your life amidst chaos, catastrophe, disaster, entropy, intense transformation, grief, and strife. My commitment is that our working relationship be a consistent and reliable site of warmth, respite, accompaniment, and development that grows with you overtime.
Pathways for Engaging The Work With Me
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Therapeutic Support for Activists, Healers, Creatives, Seekers, and more is an alternative to clinical, carceral, and colonial models of therapy that seek to diagnose, treat, and change rather than accept, love, and accommodate the bodies and energies seeking support.
In this container, we work with Internal Family Systems, Parts Work, Attachment Theory, and somatics to develop strategies for resiliency, regulation, and resistance, metabolizing trauma, relating across difference, and navigating the ever-shifting terrain of our lives. We may also incorporate elements of Intuitive Counseling, including astrology, energy work, and more.
Therapeutic Support is offered as one-hour 1-1 sessions, with weekly and biweekly meeting options available.
A 3-6 month container, or an 8-12 session commitment, is required for all new clients, in order to ensure you receive the greatest possible benefit from the service.
For more about Therapeutic Support, click here.
I am currently accepting new clients. To receive Therapeutic Support, please fill out this form. I will be in touch.
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Ancestral Connection Coaching is a container for folks longing to receive the wisdom of their lineage(s), embrace their contradictions and complexities, and move in a unified motion with their ancestors. Ancestral Connection Coaching is for those seeking a sensation of wholeness, holiness, and self-acceptance that can only be achieved through integrating our histories, knowing who we’ve been to each other, and mapping a more accountable path forward.
Ancestral Connection Coaching is offered in various packages. For more about Ancestral Connection Coaching, click here.
To apply for Ancestral Connection Coaching, email m.mccubbins@pm.me.
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Viable Visions Consulting for Groups + Orgs is intuitive and practical support for connecting with the spirit of your vision, and creating the material conditions necessary for it to thrive. Viable Visions is a medicinal offering for groups and orgs seeking to create mutually-flourishing ecosystems for relating to ourselves, each other, and our shared dreams, both within and without. Through Viable Visions Consulting, we infuse spirit into our strategizing, incorporate love into our logistics, and give structure to our dreams.
This offering is for groups, orgs, collectives, and businesses moving in alignment with liberation values.
To read more about Viable Visions Consulting, including rates, click here.
To inquire book with me, please fill out this form. I will be in touch.
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In Mentorship + Apprenticeship, I partner with you in your spiritual development, as you deepen your connection to your intuition and awaken to the wisdom of your soul. Together, we may explore a wide range of modalities that resonate with you, or focus on building your spiritual literacy with a specific technology. Some pathways I am equipped to teach include:
Psychic + Intuitive Abilities
Spiritual Herbalism
Politicizing your practice
Diverting the Spiritual Industrial Complex, Developing a Sustainable Spirituality
Astrology
Mediumship
Tarot, Cartomancy
Oracle
Bibliomancy
Working with Premonitions and Dreams
Ritual and Spell Work
Ancestral Healing Work
This is a highly specialized offering great for folks interested in cultivating a consistent, daily spiritual practice, as well as folks who only practice in certain areas or seasons of their lives.
Mentorship + Apprenticeship is accessible for experienced spiritualists, newcomers or beginners, and seekers awakening or re-awakening to their path.
For more information about my Mentorship + Apprenticeship offerings, click here.
To receive Mentorship + Apprenticeship support, please complete this form.
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Free, community-based offering. Case by case basis. More info TBA
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TBA
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Guiding Principles
There is value in everyone being where they are at in their process. This sentence came to me like a directive while I sat in a room of philanthropy professionals at varying, overlapping, and contradictory levels of understanding equity, justice, and community care. Rather than applying rigid, puritanical concepts of “right” or “wrong” to the situation or creating hierarchies of disposability in my mind, my role in the situation was to accept, learn to work with, extend compassion towards, and integrate the energies available. I apply this strategy to every facet of my counseling, consulting, and coaching. I assess the impact of our work together by your own internal sense of alignment, rather than any external societal “benchmarks” or goal posts. How in touch do you feel with your path? My work is to help you feel resourced, cared for, tended to, and affirmed exactly where you are, and when appropriate, reflect back where they may be vital opportunities for maturation, integration, and growth. I believe we all hold a vital piece of our collective healing and liberation, and that we are most capable of offering our piece by being exactly who and where we are. I trust you to listen to your own internal guidance system, steward your life force energy in a way that works best for you, and cultivate the contributions that are uniquely yours to give. However, whenever, and wherever our paths converge, I commit to meeting you with curiosity and care. I have immeasurable faith in your infinite potential and unwavering respect for your unique path.
Intimacy is healthy and possible in professional healing relationships. When I first received the vision of starting my own healing practice, I imagined serving folks from a house in the middle of a forest- a warm, soft, landing place, open for consistent resourcing and care. In my vision, the natural cycles of life made it so that I always had enough to give, enough time for pleasure/play, and enough time to rest. While I do not serve clients from the middle of a forest (yet!), I still cultivate this energy in the heart of the city, on couches, in community gathering spots, and on video calls where we share space. A typical day in my practice involves heart-to-heart conversation, compassionate witnessing, and abundant revelations, shared over a fixed candle and herbal tea. Moving into the depths with one another in agreed upon and boundaried ways fills me with a sense of honor and purpose. Over the years, I have found that the most transformative and profound work occurs when emotional and spiritual intimacy is present, when we know one another in a relational way.
I honor sex workers and the archetype of the whore, who teach me that intimacy is a basic human need, and also a service, and also a crucial, sacred, and healing form of care to provide. I distrust and rebuke models of healing that require practitioners to be separate from the communities they serve, practicing in sterile, commodified, siloed, policed and surveilled environments. Boundaries and expectations are crucial for the healthful flow of any relationship, and I practice them often with friends, collaborators, clients, my inner parts, and even my ancestors and guides. However, boundaries and expectations enforced by governing and licensing bodies are stifling to the spirit and detrimental to the human soul. I believe in building bonds that transcend and defy colonial and carceral logic, bonds that affirm our shared humanity, and that also meet your needs. Even as we are in a healing, therapeutic, and supportive relationship, we are also community members, cohabitants, neighbors, relatives, and co-conspirators. I use the term “client” to refer to those I work with because it indicates I am in a position of service to those who trust me to hold the inner workings of their lives with care- in this relationship, I am responsible for showing up regulated and applying the highest level of ethical and spiritual integrity to our interactions. I take this responsibility seriously, while still bringing my humble and honest human self to the table- I truly am on this Earth journey with you.
Freedom is available to us now- let’s practice together. Freedom is a concept that has been co-opted by the settler colonial project to make us feel like our power lives outside of our bodies, resides in someone else’s control, and is perpetually out of reach. In my practice, however, I orient towards freedom as a somatic sensation, a spiritual, emotional, and creative well inside our beings that we can access and channel to the best of our capacity in our living days. In our work together, I support you in noticing this sensation, not through spiritual bypassing but through a deep dropping-into material conditions and the very real feelings that pulse through you. Freedom is in the courageous act of facing our external conditions and allowing ourselves to grieve. Freedom is also in the act of conjuring our ethereal and physical bodies towards our most satiating dreams. Freedom is turning inward, attuning to our inner ecosystem, and listening for what all our moving parts need. Freedom is an opening that allows more and more of ourselves out, in, and through. We practice freedom as we come together to fortify our spiritual truths.
The Value of Our Exchange: Payment & Rates
The spirit of generosity can lead and guide our work, even as we exchange money for services and live within capitalist systems. In many Indigenous, pre-colonial cultures, healers, shamans, vision-poets, seers, curanderas, oracles, priests and priestesses, were cherished, beloved, and cared for by community. They were materially provided for because community understood their offerings were essential to their collective functioning, their wellbeing as a whole. Being a spiritual practitioner concerned with holistic wellness and ancestral connection, alive in a time where spiritual knowledge is demonized, pathologized, criminalized, and demoralized by society at large, requires fierce commitment. I charge money for services because, under current conditions, money is what I need to sustain my life.
Through my own financial healing, I’ve learned we don’t have to abandon our values when marketing our gifts, sharing our offerings, or exchanging money for services and goods. Money is a neutral object; how we choose to work with it imbues it with meaning. With our money choices, we practice as much freedom as we can. As a practitioner who has worked for free and low-cost for many years, believing martyrdom was the most noble path for me, I can attest to how unsustainable and damaging it can be to neglect our basic material needs. I charge for my services as an act of self-love and community care.
With my earnings and my energy, I give generously and abundantly. I set base rates to honor my value and to ensure the resource I need flows to me. I keep flexibility in my practice and work with folks experiencing criminalization, pathologization, dehumanization, and land and labor theft on a free and sliding scale basis as I am able. Under capitalism, I make strategic decisions to ensure I am still contributing to an anti-capitalist love reality, which will be more readily available as global capitalism falls. Know and trust that the exchange of money for services contributes to a circular economy where community needs are met and survival-based resources flow.
FAQs
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Yes! Some of my most valuable, impactful, meaningful work has happened with people I know and love. Over the years, I have provided supportive services to family, community members, partners, lovers, and friends. My offerings are for my community as much as they are for folks who expand outside of my immediate networks.
In some instances, it may not make sense or be appropriate for us to cultivate a client relationship based on dynamics that are hard to negotiate around, our history, working style, or needs. The decision to work together towards a clearly defined goal is made by both of us and in accordance with our guides, spiritual and energetic and emotional boundaries. I trust if you feel called to reach out, there is something available for us to work with and resolve.
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If you’ve reviewed my offerings and want to work together in a myriad of ways, but don’t know the best entry point for you, I’d suggest selecting the offering that best meets your immediate needs or feels like it might be most impactful to you in the “now.”
If you’re still unsure, as our work together begins, we can have a clarifying conversation about the path that might be the best for you.
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Yes! Email me at m.mccubbins@pm.me.
I will be in touch with you as capacity and alignment allows.
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I get it. I trust that if you feel called to work with me, we can find an arrangement that meets both of our needs.
I encourage you to fill out my client intake form, where there’s space for you to elaborate on what feels financially feasible for you right now. Occasionally, I have lower cost spots available in my practice. I will be in touch as capacity and alignment allows.
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Booking services with me is by far the best way to support my work. The opportunity to do my work is a gift, and the exchange between us is immensely valuable to me.
You can also share my work with your community and folks you think may benefit from working with me!
Oh, and I’m currently looking for a book publisher to help me publish my first book on ancestral connection as a strategy for personal and collective liberation. Are you my future publisher or is someone in your network??? If so…let’s connect!
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I work with folks across backgrounds, experiences and identities. My clients are leaders, care workers, and people who hold a lot for their communities.
My clients are also healers, visionaries, witches, conjurers, priests and priestesses, herbalists, spellcasters, curanderas, magic-makers, and those stewarding liberatory futures.
My clients are poets, artists, writers, cultural workers, and creatives.
My clients are multigenerational, ranging in age.
My clients are connected to ways of being and knowing that are ancient, fertile, and sacred.
My clients emerge from various spiritual traditions and cultural contexts.
My clients have rich, layered, dynamic, and textured needs that aren’t always accommodated in the mainstream counseling, consulting, and coaching realms.
My clients are folks who transcend societal expectations and barriers by being who they are.
My clients are people who wonder, grieve, and yearn.
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No! My own background in activism and social justice movements makes my services a great fit for other activists and movement workers, but considering yourself an activist or being involved in politics is not a prerequisite to working with me.
You may be questioning your role in activism, or simply having curiosities or concerns about your role in social change. You may also be experiencing anxiety around our current political climate. I am a great person to process these questions, curiosities, and concerns with.
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Not necessarily, but please note, I’m pretty woo. If you are skeptical of spiritual workings or of spirituality in general, my offerings may not be for you! My offerings offer the most value to those who are fairly open to receive.
Freedom is available to us now
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Let’s practice together
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Freedom is available to us now · Let’s practice together ·
“I’ve worked on a grant with M; they helped me apply for something for my sex worker project and held that process with such care. They are a brilliant writer and asked such important questions to get at what I was trying to ask for and create. M. is full of collaboration and dreaming! Working with them is tender, silly and special.”
-Kiana
“M. had an uncanny ability to listen and meet me where I was at, and an intuitive sense of how to unfold the conversation in a way that was not only highly supportive, but also genuinely loving. They have an enormous heart and capacity for acceptance. I was always inspired by the way M. distilled our conversations and transmitted messages from our ancestors and Spirit to feed the work we were doing. M’.s investment in their own personal journey and work is evident and lays a solid and reassuring foundation for diving deep and resolving complex issues. They are a gem and I cannot recommend them highly enough as a healer, ally, and advocate.”
-Emma