🍊 Welcome to CITRUS™
CITRUS: Contemplative Integration of Trauma Repatterning & Unified Selfwork
A platform for decoloinal trauma healing and sacred research
— for those walking the line between collapse and creation.
CITRUS is not a technique. It’s a living mandala.
“It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.”
— J. KrishnamurtiTended and offered in service to collective healing by Kerrick M. Crace, MA, LPCC (AKA Kavé—Riftkeeper)
🌿 CITRUS™ Trauma Healing Groups
CITRUS (Contemplative Integration of Trauma Repatterning & Unified Selfwork) is a queer-centered, decolonial approach to trauma healing. It is not about fixing you — it is about remembering that you are not broken. Together we build safety, unlearn shame, reclaim story, and weave community.
We currently offer two pathways:
✨ CITRUS™ Therapy Group
A Deep-Dive Container for Queer Trauma Healing
8-Week Spiral (8 Sessions)
This is the core CITRUS program: an 8-week therapeutic group that meets once per week for 90 minutes. Together we move through structured themes of contemplative trauma healing, including somatic practices, Internal Family Systems (IFS-informed) parts work, narrative reclamation, and Buddhist psychology.
This group is designed for queer and questioning folks who want to deepen into trauma healing in community, while cultivating safety, compassion, and authentic belonging.
Includes:
8 live weekly sessions (90 minutes each)
Weekly meditations & embodied practices
Worksheets and ritual guides
Dedicated Discord space for integration, resource-sharing, and community rhythm
Your Investment:
Insurance Accepted (including Medicaid): Most plans reimburse around $27–$30 per session (90 minutes). Your exact out-of-pocket cost depends on your plan.
Private Pay: $30 per session — $240 total for 8 weeks.
Payment: Required in full before group begins if paying out of pocket.
This pricing is intentionally accessible. The heart of CITRUS is not profit — it is collective healing and building a new model for trauma integration.
🌿 The Eight Sessions of the CITRUS Spiral
Week 1: Grounding & Orientation
Build the foundations of safety, ritual, and community. Arrive as you are — protector parts and all.
Week 2: Mapping the Inner Landscape
Begin IFS-inspired parts work, discovering who’s been leading your internal system and why.
Week 3: Trauma, the Nervous System, and Self-Compassion
Learn trauma physiology through a Polyvagal lens. Anchor into the body’s wisdom, not its pathology.
Week 4: Somatic Safety & Expressive Release
Practice embodied discharge, breathwork, and intuitive movement to begin releasing held stories and tension.
Week 5: Narrative Re-authoring & Voice Reclamation
Turn toward internalized shame and silence. Use writing and group process to rewrite what was once written for you.
Week 6: Collective Shadows & Ancestral Resonance
Explore the cultural and ancestral layers of your trauma. Honor grief and resiliency that did not begin with you.
Week 7: Integration, Worthiness & Embodied Identity
Repattern nervous system pathways to align with deeper truth. Practice self-acceptance as a sacred act.
Week 8: Ritual Closure & Re-entry
Weave what’s been reclaimed. Complete with ritual, reflection, and connection — leaving with tools, not just insights.
🌙 The CITRUS Spiral Unfolded
Ground & Gather: Safety, ritual, internal mapping
Reclaim & Re-Author: Parts work, somatic unburdening, grief processing
Return & Root: Ceremony, ancestral weaving, integration
Queer Trauma Research & Data Collection
CITRUS is a living framework. Part of the reason we are offering this group at such a low cost is to incentivize building research data for building this ongoing trauma modality. Participants will be invited (but never required) to take part in pre- and post-program self-assessments. These include short, evidence-based scales such as:
PCL-5 (measuring PTSD symptoms)
SCS (measuring self-compassion)
This data is collected confidentially and anonymously to support the long-term vision of developing CITRUS into a unique, integrative model of contemplative and decolonial trauma healing. You will be part of helping to create a non-pathologizing, decolonial, and contemplative model of healing.
Your choice to participate in data collection will never affect your group membership or care.
Group Details:
Online virtual group
Tuesdays, Oct 14 – Dec 2
6:30pm – 8:00pm MDT
Group capped at 12 participants
Insurance accepted (including Medicaid) or $30/session private pay ($240 total)
Full payment due by first session for private pay participants
📩 Enroll or inquire:
queerliferefuge@gmail.com | 720-340-3721
🌱 Ongoing CITRUS™ Support Group
Weekly Community for Queer Healing & Integration
This group is less intensive than the 8-week therapy program, and is designed as a continuous circle for ongoing support. Together we process, share, and hold space for the lived realities of queer trauma.
Each week we’ll explore themes such as:
Queer religious trauma
Boundaries & relationships
Navigating authenticity in authoritarian times
Safety & autonomy
Identity & enoughness
Collective grief & resilience
This group emphasizes presence, connection, and mutual care. It is open to new and returning participants, whether or not you’ve completed the CITRUS intensive.
Group Details:
Weekly 60-minute virtual sessions
Fridays 6:30pm - 7:30pm
Cost: $20 per week
Discounted package available: 5 sessions at a reduced rate of $85
Open to LGBTQIA2+ participants seeking ongoing healing and community
📩 Enroll or inquire:
queerliferefuge@gmail.com | 720-340-3721