About

 

Welcome, Beloved. You are here for a reason.

 
 

As a brave soul, you desire healing and leadership — but not just in the traditional sense. 

 

Traditional Psychotherapy often teaches that intuition and energy in the body either don’t exist or are second to the analytical mind.  Healing must happen indoors between four walls and with one therapist.

 
 

Root Awareness offers healing and guidance to compassionate and brave individuals, families, and groups that we feel are lacking in modern psychotherapy.  You are crossing the next threshold, and we understand the power of holistic support.  Depth and body-oriented awareness, energy healing, music therapy, and true soulful connection with the Earth and community help you to transform into the wildly embodied and empowered soul that our Earth desperately needs. 

You may often feel depleted and/or overwhelmed by capitalistic culture, standards of perfectionism, and by the energy of others; however, Root Awareness supports you in cultivating the power, insight, and courage to know and follow your soul’s journey and purpose in this time of Great Turning.

 

You have a unique dharma and legacy to offer our Planet.

And you hope to have healers, teachers, and guides that are trauma informed and justice oriented, who can hold all of your experience; yet you also desire healing that meets your spiritual heights and soulful depths that lead you towards purposeful action.

 

You feel the call towards something greater than yourself, although you can feel anxious and out of place sometimes, unable to express yourself as boldly and fiercely as you know yourself to be.

You desire community and Earth rootedness. The true ecological web that all humans deserve that both support and challenge you to weave your creative threads.

You are ready to re-ignite and channel your inner fire, so that your unique passion and energy flow directly from the Earth’s source into service of higher purpose.

 
 
 

At Root Awareness, we believe that the brave and creative leaders are our hope for transitioning into a more heart-centered, just, and sustainable future. We support you with full integration in order to guide the new and emergent way forward.  

Brave souls and leaders who embody courage, practicality, groundedness, fierceness, and Truth as well as compassion, sensitivity, deep listening, and reciprocity with the non-human world are the authentic humans the Earth desperately needs.  

These qualities cannot simply be taught. They must be experienced, lovingly tended, held in ritual and ceremony with community, ancestors, and the Earth. Shame and Shadow must be felt, witnessed, and understood so that one’s shame and fear can transmute into Wisdom and Light.

 
 
 
 

We are here to support your healing and transformation.

 Meet Caroline

 
 

Hi, I am Caroline (she, they), the founder of Root Awareness, and I am so glad you are here.

I am a psychotherapist, energy healer, wilderness guide, and leadership coach with Scottish, Irish, and Welsh ancestry. Throughout my childhood, I wandered amongst pine trees, armadillos, possums, and tree frogs in lush Louisiana. 

For several years I worked as a lead wilderness leader, empowering people who struggled with substance abuse, self harm behaviors, depression, anxiety, and low self esteem.  During this time, I supported and guided folks in cultivating compassion for self and others, communication skills, and nature-based skills.  

During my time as a nature-based therapy guide I had to learn how to communicate assertively and effectively, how to be both an emotional and logistical leader, and how to process and engage with my own difficult feelings.  Healing shame became an inner quest as the undoing of negative self and cultural beliefs I had inherited from trauma, ancestry, and family guided me towards greater self love, compassion for others, awareness, and sensitivity.  

My journey of healing and transforming also led me towards studying and practicing holistic and body - centered psychotherapy, meditation, yoga, energy healing, as well as engaging in a wild and deep love affair with the Earth.   

My ideal day is an adventure in the mountains or on the Rivers in the Southwest, engaged in a deep soulful conversation with a deer friend, praising the non-human world.  You can usually find me writing, dancing, and exploring inner and outer landscapes near her home, in Mancos, Colorado.

*Caroline Lewis facilitates all 1:1 coaching, group coaching, and nature immersions.

    • Bachelor Degree in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Colorado - Boulder

    • MA in Integral Counseling Psychology from the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) including extensive training in Mind, Body, and Spiritual Psychotherapy

    • Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) including over 3,000 supervised hours working in clinical settings with teens, adults, couples, and families.

    • Energy and Intuition Medicine Licensure from the Academy of Intuition Medicine (MIM)

    • Outdoor Adventure and River Guide with Deerhill Expeditions in Mancos, Colorado

    • Senior Field Wilderness Guide from Second Nature Wilderness Therapy in Oregon and Utah

    • Ecotherapy certification from The Earth Body Institute in Oakland, California

    • NOLS (National Outdoor Leadership School) semester in Alaska; Internship in Amazonas and Motto Grosso, Brazil

    • WFR certified (Wilderness First Responder Medical Training)

    • T-Group training (group process) from Pierce street counseling center and CIIS

    • Backcountry skier, river runner, beginner guitar player, dancer, singer, writer, and child like wanderer, living and exploring the Southwest and lands surrounding Mancos, Colorado.

    So much gratitude for the organizations and people that have influenced me and Root Awareness’ offerings including: the guides and teachers from Animas Valley Institute, Joanna Macy and the Work that Reconnects, Adriana Marie Brown (Emergent Strategy, Pleasure Acitivism), Pinar and So from Queer Nature, Resma Menakem (My Grandmother’s Hands), Sally Kempton (Awakening Shakti), Brene Brown, Sharon Blackie (If Women Rose Rooted), Nina Simons from Bioneers, Francesca MCartney (Body of Health and the Academy of Intuition Medicine), Anita Moorjani (Sensitive is the New Strong).

 

Other Collaborators Include:

 
 

Cheryl Slover-Linett and Larry Glover from Lead Feather