About

The Makaranda Method

Welcome. I'm Eleanor!

I am the founder of The Makaranda (pronounced maka-ron-da) Method, a nature-based, holistic approach to well-being. I’m a therapist and intuitive who works at the intersection of psychology, ecology, and spirituality.

Our team supports you in remembering how to return to your natural rhythm. That means working with what lives in the body, tending to the nervous system, and restoring connection to our lineage, our breath, and our Earth.

Our work begins with regulation and grounding. From there, we explore expansion, helping you release inherited patterns of fear, heal relationships, and transform the way you relate to money, work, and love. We teach the practices that bring you back to balance: how to breathe, how to trust, and how to build a life of curiosity and wonder.

At our core, The Method is about wholeness. Integrating mind, body, soul, and Spirit so that you can give and receive fully in this lifetime and beyond.

My purpose is to reconnect us with our wild and wonderful planet. From there, everything else meant for us can unfold.

My purpose in life and work...

Our Team

We are here to help you remember your natural rhythm.

Who we are

We created a community of therapists, coaches, nurses, and facilitators trained in meditation, psychedelics, and Earth-centered healing through The Makaranda Method.

We’re redefining what healing can look like. We are an holistic system where you get support from our whole team. Your therapist, nurse, and coach all speak together, offering collaborative care for your unique experience.

We serve as a model for community-based, preventative, and integrative care.

​We support individuals, couples, and groups through psychedelic preparation and integration, somatic healing, and relationship work, meditation, birth and death, medical intuitive, light work, energy healing, reiki, message, marketing and so much more.

How We Work

Our approach is simple.

We help you slow down enough to notice what’s happening inside you, in your relationships, and in the world around you. We work as a team to give you the best care possible.

Within our team, you’ll find practitioners trained in reiki, energy work, psychedelic and ketamine therapy, somatic and relationship therapy, dreamwork, archetype guidance, nature therapy, rites of passage and the sacred thresholds of birth and death.

Ways to Work With Us

1:1 & Couples Sessions

When life feels overwhelming, your body often holds the answers your mind can’t access.

In our sessions, Eleanor and her team integrate mindfulness, somatic therapy, and holistic coaching to bring clarity and regulation back to your system. We create the conditions for lasting change in how you relate to yourself, your relationships, and the world around you.

Integration Group

Our Integration Groups offer a grounded space to continue your healing after ceremony or other peak experiences.

Led by Makaranda-certified coaches, these 90-minute gatherings include guided meditation, nervous system regulation tools, and community reflection to anchor your insights into daily life. This is where transformation becomes lived practice.

Earth Circle Retreats

You’ve done the inner work, but talk therapy just isn’t cutting it anymore. You’re ready for something deeper. Our retreats are immersive weekends designed to help you shed old patterns, expand your awareness, and reconnect with your true rhythm.

​Guided by Eleanor and her team, each gathering weaves meditation, yoga, live music, and integration work to help you embody your insights and carry them into everyday life.

Meet Our Coaches

Each coach brings her own lived experience, training and medicine while staying rooted in the same shared values of presence, ethics, and care.

Eleanor Evans Medina, MA

Founder of The Makaranda Method | Marriage & Family Therapist | Ceremonialist | Death Doula | Meditation Teacher| Boulder, CO & Virtual

Eleanor is the founder and principal teacher of The Makaranda Method. Drawing from her background in clinical therapy, mindfulness, and plant medicine work, she developed this approach through her own path of healing. Her work invites others to return to the wisdom of their bodies, the rhythm of nature, and the peace that comes from living in alignment with themselves and the planet.

Amelie Rey

Professional Counselor in training| Researcher | Somatic Practitioner |  Trauma Specialist | Denver, CO & Virtual

Amelie approaches healing as a process of remembering wholeness. She works with people caught in cycles of fear, OCD, and disordered eating. She works somatically and relationally, helping clients rebuild trust with themselves. Through presence and practical tools, she helps clients loosen their grip on control and rediscover a felt sense of trust in themselves.

Kate Pauley, LMFT

Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist | Ceremonialist | Ketamine-Assisted Therapist | Denver, CO & Virtual

Working with Kate will help you become who you want to be. Kate believes that the mind has the power to shape your entire life. Together, you will examine your thoughts and patterns, so that you can begin to heal/change/accept yourself. This work will give you power to create exactly the life you want to live.

Emily Christensen, RNC-OB

Ketamine Therapist | Labor and Delivery Nurse | Birth & Postpartum Educator | Seattle, WA & Virtual

Emily supports women through one of life’s most vulnerable thresholds: birth and the seasons that follow. She bridges western medicine and eastern philosophy to bring calm, safety, and meaning to the transition into motherhood.

Daria Moss, MA, RRT

Respiratory Therapist | Intuitive Medicine Practitioner | Reiki Level 2 | Denver, CO & Virtual

Daria helps people remember how to breathe again, fully, deeply, without rushing. Her sessions combine gentle inquiry, nervous system awareness, and emotional regulation to help clients find peace in their own bodies.

Lindsay Lynch

Psilocybin Facilitator in training | Microdosing Coach | Neuroscience Educator | Reiki Level 1 | Denver, CO & Virtual

​Lindsay works with microdosing as a tool for gentle awakening and neural repair. She supports clients living with chronic pain, anxiety, and depression to soften their inner dialogue and create new, life-affirming pathways in the brain.

Kathleen Hooper

Vocal Coach | LVDY| Denver, CO & Virtual

Kathleen helps people reconnect with their body’s natural intelligence through the voice. Her sessions focus on breathwork and finding song to heal inside and out.

1993 - My dad, little sister Kathleen in the backpack and me, feeling a lot

The Story Behind
​The Makaranda Method

Eleanor here! Over the years people have asked me how I created this method, and here is a bit of the story.

I’ve always been sensitive. I felt so much in my little body as a child, and my parents called me an "old soul." My clothes were too itchy, the sounds too loud, the lights too bright. I could never quite find comfort in my body, and that made school hard. While other kids did well in the classroom, I wanted to be outside.

My dad taught me how to identify birds, trees and clouds and through this I began to sense something ancient that I didn’t yet understand.

From one old soul to another 💌

A free gift for you - a guided meditation to help you return to center. And you’ll also receive my monthly letter, where I share personal reflections & practices for living in rhythm with life.