Photo by Leela Kelley

Welcome!

Thank you for meeting me here. My name is Branch Miriam Gold and I use they and he pronouns. I live to love and love to live here among these connections of rivers and mountains.

A belief of mine that I presence in my practice is creating a culture of belonging. Where the wholeness and richness of every person is affirmed, held sacred, and celebrated in connection. Un-belonging has been used as a tool to separate and disenfranchise people from themselves, land, and community, especially for people with marginalized identities. I seek to offer a space that welcomes all of you, honors your wisdom, and supports you in connecting with your vibrant aliveness.

In a culture of belonging, relationships can offer pathways to connecting with yourself, the land, humans, and all alive beings. As a twin, I grew up in this world as a person very attuned, sensitive, held and rooted in relationship. My sense of perception to human relationships has been in conjunction with deep relationships with the more-than-human world. I acknowledge the potential of relationships to be a grounding, enlivening, supportive and affirming resource in life and in healing.

I understand our bodies as bodies of water that are expansive, powerful, playful, alive, and endlessly changing. Like the rivers, the body is a creation of nature and it can ebb and flow, change course, and that its transformations are because of the body’s wholeness and interconnectedness. I humbly hope that in our sessions together, you find connection and belonging with the life-giving depths within you, are nourished by rooting into relationships that are here supporting you, and that you feel fully seen and respected in the wholeness of who you are.

Certifications:

Registered RCST® practitioner with The Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy Association of North America

Integrative Somatic Parts Work Level 1 - 2025 - The Embody Lab - taught by Fran Booth

Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy Practitioner Course - 2022 - 2024 - through Body Intelligence School - taught by Nancy Schrauth, Hiraman Reynolds, Hannah Wasielewski, and Ryan Hallford

Sacred Plant Medicine Apprenticeship Year 1 and 2 - 2018 - 2019 - through The Gaia School with Sage Maurer

Reiki Level One of the Usui Lineage - 2018 - with Ellen Albertson

Spiritual Response Therapy Beginner, Advanced, and Intensive Courses - 2015 - 2016 - through Spiritual Response Association with Karen Kent

Bachelor’s degree in Biology and Environmental Studies - 2013 - Oberlin College

Courses that inform my work:

Unbodying Supremacy, Weaving Connection - 2023 - SUSU Community Farm, led by Amber Arnold, Em Megas-Russell, and Lis Newell

Unbodying White-Bodied Supremacy 100 and 102 - 2020 - 2021 - SUSU Community Farm, taught by Amber Arnold

Dreaming Torah - 2022 - through Romemu - ritual dream study with Rabbi Jill Hammer

Jewish Protection Magic Class - 2021 - with Kohenet Dori Midnight

Wildlife Tracking Courses and Internships - 2012 - 2024 with Northwest Connections

I am also endlessly learning from my mom, Judy Becker, who has been practicing hands-on and energetic healing work for over 20 years. She is trained in Spiritual Response Therapy, One Light Healing Touch, Emotional Freedom Technique, and Reiki.

I am a white 3rd generation american of Ashkenazi Jewish descent. I am dedicated to the ongoing anti-racist practice of unbodying white-bodied supremacy culture that is present in myself and the world around me, while supporting the liberative changework that is led by people of the global majority (BIPOC). I am a queer, nonbinary, transgender person who is constantly awed by the powerful love that is cultivated and adorned by LGBTQQ2SIA+ family. I have experience living with disabling injuries and chronic illness, and I am a thin bodied person. I am food and housing secure and was raised professional class. I have worked in sexual health and gender-affirming health care, education, social work, and food service. I live along the generous Green and West Rivers on unceded Abenaki land in southeastern Vermont, alongside friends, the magical cat Owlet, and plant kin. I am often gardening, spending time with the river, making art, cooking, and crafting herbal medicine.