Meet Sundaura

Welcome! My name is Sundaura Lithman. I’m a mentor, educator, intuitive guide, and a Level 3-trained Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapist. The mission of my work is to serve as a catalyst for intergenerational, systemic, and cultural healing - guided by a vision of collective liberation and reconnection that starts from the inside out. My practice is trauma-informed and rooted in neuroscience, systems thinking, and deep relational attunement. This helps guide me in supporting individuals, couples, families, and organizations through times of deep healing, growth, and transformational change.

As a social worker for more than a decade, a trans woman, and a parent of two young children, I’m dedicated to providing care that is not only gender-affirming and anti-oppressive, but affirming of your whole Self and all the identities and parts you carry. My work centers on helping you step into a life that feels more meaningful, abundant, connected, and free.

Over the last eight years, I’ve worked extensively with complex trauma, relationship and attachment healing, gender, sexuality, and LGBTQ+ identity, neurodiversity, spiritual healing, psychedelic integration, and chronic pain and illness. Working with the inner world continually humbles and excites me, as I’ve witnessed how personal healing ripples outward into families, communities, and larger systems. The IFS model naturally blends evidence-based psychotherapy, mindfulness, somatic awareness, and ancient wisdom in order to address psychological, spiritual, energetic, and even physical dimensions of healing. One example of this can be found in a 2013 study of the use of IFS with Rheumatoid Arthritis.

Regardless of what has led you here, IFS offers a holistic and transformative paradigm that honors the innate goodness within each part of you, and can help you access the qualities of Self-leadership, creativity, and compassion that live within. It can also support the unburdening and releasing of intergenerational trauma, shame, and internalized oppression. Together, we can attune to the parts of you that emerge, checking for consent and pacing each step so that safety is not assumed, but rather earned and co-created.

From this foundation, even the deepest traumas and grief can be approached, allowing you to reclaim the gifts you were born with. As your sense of safety and trust expands, you will feel more at ease connecting with your inner world, and more capacity for joy, belonging, discernment, and trust in yourself and in your relationships!