About Us
Mission
Therapists at Soul Soil Healing aim to partner with clients in healing the soil that nurtures their souls.
We work to provide therapy that is:
trauma-informed
trans-centered
queer-centered
rooted in racial justice
rooted in disability justice
ecology-informed
celebrates health at every size
decolonial
sex positive
culturally humble
anti-oppressive
curious
nonjudgmentally compassionate
kink informed
supportive for people exploring or practicing nonmonogamy
as we serve diverse communities in the Baltimore, MD area, including:
children (ages 8+)
adolescents
adults
individuals
couples/polycules
families
We hope to partner with clients to co-create spaces where we feel able to breathe, explore, question, and heal. Therapy can include learning skills and practices to improve daily functioning alongside long-term relational care to heal from traumatic experiences, build resilience, and cultivate thriving as members of healthy social ecosystems. Together, we can uncover, design, and live into lasting solutions.
neurodiversity-affirming
Worker-owned Cooperative
As a business, we operate under the principles of a worker-owned cooperative.
This means that we are a democratic workplace, and company wealth, decision-making, and responsibility is fairly distributed amongst all worker-owners and employees.
We value the development, health, and well-being of each of our therapists and staff alongside valuing the therapeutic work that we do. We value navigating interpersonal conflict compassionately and candidly. We value radical authenticity, acceptance, creativity, and cooperation.
We also care for each other, support each other, and have fun along the way!
Here's a peak into some of us connecting in our office suite!
Accessibility
Providing care that is accessible to our clients is important to us, and we are happy to work with you to meet accessibility needs.
All of our therapists provide therapy via telehealth if that is easiest for you, or we are available for in-person sessions at our office in Woodberry, Baltimore or an outdoor walking session in Druid Hill Park or Cylburn Arboretum.
Getting to our office: We are located at 3600 Clipper Mill Rd. Suite 221, Baltimore, MD 21211. We’re at the Woodberry lightrail stop, or about a 7 minute walk from the 22 bus line. We have plenty of open parking in our parking lot, although it can fill up and require a short walk to the office during mid-days. There are handicap spots on both the west and east side of the building close to the entrance doors.
Our office is wheelchair accessible. Our building can be entered via a ramp up to the West entrance or ground-level entrance next to handicap parking at the East entrance (the handicap parking is within a small lot at the Potter’s Guild entrance, and the door to enter is to the right of Potter’s Guild). Unfortunately, neither door has a push-button for truly accessible entrance — your therapist would be happy to meet you at the door for easier entrance if needed.
East entrance: West entrance:
We are on the second floor. There is an elevator close to the East entrance, there are bathrooms (gender-neutral and gendered) near the elevator, and our office suite is a short distance straight down the hall.
Once inside, we have a water machine with filtered water and tea available, and fidgets toys in every office, and lots of natural light as well as lamps and overhead lighting on dimmers. We have couches, chairs, or floor seating available — you choose! Please let your therapist know if you’d prefer different lighting or seating options than are initially present in the room when you arrive — we’re happy to adjust!
Please speak with your therapist about any additional accessibility needs — we want to make your experience coming to and experiencing therapy as easy as possible, and are happy to make adjustments if desired.
Soul Soil Collective
Soul Soil Healing was founded by Dr. Kris Gebhard and Emily Rizzo in 2023 as part of the Soul Soil Collective. Soul Soil Healing’s values align with Soul Soil Collective’s mission of supporting culturally-competent, evidence-based and ecology-informed holistic healing services including therapy, retreats, and other community programming that invite collaborators to deepen their relationships with and learn from local ecology, land, and the more-than-human world.
We work in collaboration with Souls Soil Collective Farm to support access to land held in common for collective land-based healing by individuals/groups who face racist, generational, and classist barriers from access to land stewardship, especially Black, Indigenous, and other people of color, and gender and/or sexual minorities.
Based on a land acknowledgment statement drafted by a Susquehanna and Shawnee elder for the MSAC Land Acknowledgment Project,as well as information shared by Piscataway Indian Nation tribal consultants with the MSAC Land Acknowledgment Project.
We acknowledge that the places today known as Baltimore City and Baltimore County, Harford County, and Cecil County exist as the result of duress. In 1652, Susquehannock leaders unwillingly transferred these lands to the English in an unsuccessful effort to stop English settlers encroaching up the Susquehanna River. We acknowledge that these places and their Indigenous inhabitants exist without rigid political borders and boundaries maintained by settlers and settler governments. The Piscataway Indian Nation also has a long history in this area and continues to maintain a relationship with the lands surrounding Baltimore. Along with the Piscataway Conoy Tribe, the Piscataway Indian Nation received recognition by the State of Maryland in 2012.
We acknowledge the social, physical, spiritual, and kinship relationships this land continues to share with Indigenous nations of the Susquehanna River and Chesapeake Bay; we acknowledge that these relationships have been displaced, damaged, and dispelled by colonists’ insatiable thirst for acquisition and domination. We acknowledge a place out of balance with its true purpose in being. We acknowledge our occupation of Susquehannock and Picataway lands. We acknowledge the continuing presence of Indigenous nations, and the shelter and nourishment that this place continues to provide all Native peoples who live here today. We acknowledge our responsibility to Indigenous nations to repair unhealthy relationships and to steward all life. When Soul Soil Collective is able to buy legal access to land, we will provide material reparations to Native peoples who have been displaced from that land via land tax. We will pursue epistemic and environmental justice -- seeking to center relationally-based and Indigenous knowledge and life ways that have been suppressed through colonial capitalism -- through consensual reparative relationships with local Indigenous organizations and groups.
Land acknowledgement and pledge of responsibility
