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Willow Abrahamson, MSW, LCSW, CCTP
Suhuuvii Donzia

Integrating Indigenous Traditional Knowledge & Clinical Expertise
Willow offers culturally grounded therapy, holistic healing, and provides expert Indigenous behavioral health consultation.
"My Indigenous name is Buha Wiyipa which is a woman who carries Buha. The singular, holy, and unseen power of creation. The one vital life-force that flows through all sacred things. It connects the natural elements of the universe directly to the physical. My life acts as the uncorrupted bridge that binds the spiritual world to the physical earth."
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A Clinician Rooted in Culture & Expertise
Identity & Ceremony:
  • Champion Jingle Dress Dancer
  • Ceremonial Practitioner
  • Native American Church Board
  • Plant Medicine Healer & Knowledge-Keeper
  • Founder, Haskell Indian Nations University Indigenous Empowerment Summit (est. in 2008)
Willow Abrahamson authentically blends clinical expertise, deep cultural excellence, and ancestral wisdom. She is uniquely positioned as both a cultural insider and a licensed clinical professional, focusing on Indigenous mental wellness and cultural resurgence for her clients.
Therapeutic Approach:
  • Trauma-informed clinical practice.
  • Traditional ecological knowledge & tribal language preservation.
  • Somatic healing rooted in ceremony & land-based wisdom.
Impact & Advocacy:
  • National consultant, trainer, & mentor.
  • Transforms behavioral health services for Indigenous populations.
  • Advocates for systemic change, strengthening cultural identity and fostering intergenerational wellness.
Licenses & Certifications
  • Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW), Idaho
  • Supervisory Capabilities
  • Certified Clinical Trauma Professional (CCTP)
  • Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART) Certified- Rapid reprocessing and resolution
  • QPR Gatekeeper Instructor - Suicide Prevention
  • Certified Addictions-Informed Professional (CAIMHP)
  • Certified Grief Informed Professional (CGP)
Education:
  • MSW, Administrative & Advocacy Practice — University of Kansas
  • BS American Indian Studies — Haskell Indian Nations University (Honors)
  • Certificate in Medicinal Plants — Cornell University
Systems-Level Impact:
  • 18+ years of combined advocacy, clinical & systems-level practice
  • Led State–Tribal Coordination Initiatives at the National Level
  • Advocated for & secured passage of federal legislation including Tribes
  • USDHHS STAC · National Head Start Directors Board · FACES Workgroup · Mathematica Survey Reviewer OPRE
Authentic Indigenous Healing: Plant Wisdom & Sacred Movement
Willow integrates time-honored Indigenous healing modalities into culturally-grounded therapy, offering holistic care that addresses mind, body, and spirit.
Plant Medicines & Traditional Knowledge
With a Cornell University Certificate in Medicinal Plants, Willow reclaims ancestral plant knowledge, bridging traditional botanical wisdom with modern science.
Carrying plant medicine healer bloodlines, she carefully studies and ethically applies this knowledge for spiritual uses and modern wellness.
As a Longhouse relative, Canoe family relative, ceremonial participant, and active member of the Native American Church, her practice emphasizes:
  • Restoring ancestral plant knowledge for contemporary healing.
  • Ethical use of plant medicines for spiritual well-being.
  • Supporting physical wellness through reconnection with nature and traditional ecological knowledge.
Indigenous Dance and Movement
Drawing on the power of traditional dance and sacred movement, Willow facilitates profound healing experiences. These practices are integral to Indigenous cultures, offering pathways for emotional release, spiritual connection, and community building.
Her approach leverages movement for therapeutic benefit, including:
  • Facilitating emotional processing and trauma release through embodied practices.
  • Fostering spiritual connection and cultural identity through traditional dances.
  • Promoting physical wellness and self-expression in a culturally safe space.
Truly holistic care, addressing and supporting spiritual wellness.
Clinical Integration & Indigenous based Therapy
Grounding therapeutic practices in Indigenous ways of knowing and being to foster culturally safe healing spaces.
Indigenous Centered Healing
Her approach offers immersive experiences grounded in traditional knowledge, movement, and somatic healing. She cultivates a deep connection to land, ancestors, and community, fostering an environment where Indigenous clients can heal within their own cultural framework.
Integrated Clinical & Traditional Interventions
Willow integrates traditional wisdom into targeted therapeutic programs, providing pathways for deep healing.
Signature Interventions:
  • "When You Walk with Plants, You Never Walk Alone": TEK-based healing & connection, Zaande Dama Buhii-viit Mai.
  • "Muuhee-goi: Return from War": Indigenous trauma therapy focused on healing historical trauma.
  • "Indigenous Tea/ Buhii Bah": Collective resilience through talking circles and plant knowledge.
  • "Ne Suakande Maviizhiagande: Taking Care of My Wellness": Holistic personal & community wellness using culturally adapted evidence based therapies.
Advocate for Decolonial Practice
Dedicated to decolonizing therapy, Willow's practice is exclusively rooted in Indigenous epistemologies and frameworks. This commitment ensures safe spaces for healing, promoting cultural resurgence and championing Indigenous approaches across all care systems for youth, elders, individuals, and communities.
Consultation Services & Expertise
Willow offers comprehensive consultation services, leveraging her deep expertise in Indigenous knowledge and clinical practice to guide international, federal, state, and organizational partners.
Indigenous Mental Health Integration
Expert guidance on integrating Indigenous mental health frameworks within existing systems. Focus on decolonizing therapeutic practices and addressing historical trauma for diverse organizations.
  • Strategic planning for Indigenous mental health
  • Culturally congruent intervention design
  • Policy development & advocacy
Cultural Competency & Training
Provides specialized training and consultation on cultural competency for providers, educators, and organizations. Fostering a deeper understanding and respectful engagement with Indigenous communities.
  • Tailored cultural competency workshops
  • Curriculum development for Indigenous perspectives
  • Best practices for community engagement
Program Development & Evaluation
Consultation services for developing, implementing, and evaluating programs that are rooted in Indigenous epistemologies. Ensuring effectiveness, sustainability, and cultural relevance for various organizational needs.
  • Indigenous-led program design
  • Outcome measurement & impact assessment
  • Grant writing support for Indigenous initiatives
Willow also is part of Newe Style Indigenous Consulting, a multi-professional cultural resurgence education and advocacy collective.
Indigenous Resilience:
Presentations and Workshops
Transformative healing rooted in Indigenous experience: land, culture, and community.
Cultural Knowledge Integration
Willow integrates Indigenous traditions from her Lemhi Shoshone, Bannock, Colville, Coeur d'Alene, and Interior Salish lineage into therapy.
Focusing on Indigenous Epistemology and Pedagogy, ecological knowledge, language, ceremonial ways, and land-based healing, she ensures culturally meaningful healing that strengthens Indigenous identity.
Reclaim spiritual connections via storytelling, and intergenerational teachings, fostering resilience and pride.
Somatic Healing
These workshops blend Indigenous dance (e.g., Jingle Dress Dance) with contemporary somatic therapy, raising awareness of their origins in medicine and healing. Participants gain practical tools for emotional regulation, trauma processing, and community connection.
Understand the cultural, spiritual, and therapeutic meaning of Indigenous movement, supporting personal and collective healing.
Willow utilizes Accelerated Resolution Therapy for blending Indigenous knowledge with modern trauma and reprocessing therapy.
Plant Medicine & Holistic Wellness
Willow combines Cornell training (Medicinal Plants Certificate) with ancestral botanical knowledge.
Workshops cover traditional plant medicines, ethical harvesting, and their integration for trauma and mental wellness.
Helping individuals and communities reconnect with plant relatives, teaching safe ways to incorporate traditional medicines into modern wellness practices.
Visit the websites below for more information on consultation and training.
Contact Information & Links
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Paving the way and building strong foundations for all our Future Generations. | Willow Abrahamson LCSW

Indigenous Healing and Liberation: centering Indigenous knowledge, and the four sacred winds of knowledge, sent to all directions in Creation. Building a pathway for our next seven generations, using #CriticalConsciousness , #IntellectualSovereignty, and #PoliticalIntelligence, imperative skills towards our liberation. Sending prayers in all 4 directions. Through the intent in spirit- prayers sent up, through my center- prayers sent for love and protection, and through mother earth below, and a

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Reclaiming our ceremonies and our values is how we heal from intergenerational trauma| Willow Abrahamson LCSW

Colonization tried to sever our connections. Resurgence is our act of reweaving them. By reconnecting to our lands and laws, we are rebuilding the family and community systems that are the foundation of our identity. This is not a metaphor; it is our spiritual practice. It is our therapy. Reclaiming our ceremonies and our values is how we heal from intergenerational trauma because it restores what was taken: our sense of belonging, purpose, and inherent worth. Our ways of knowing are not alterna

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Historical Trauma & Healing our Youth

Boots to the ground working on intergenerational/ transgenerational/ trauma and decolonial interventions. Indigenous Clinician. Trauma informed, harm reduction, patient centered, liberation, restorative justice, EVIDENCE BASED practice informed, Reservation-based, Ceremonially-grounded Indigenous Clinician. Not a student, not theorizing around, not just talking bout it, but being about it. Indigenous clinical excellence and traditionally based interventions, grass-roots TEK integration practice

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Community Suicide Prevention 2025 conference Willow Abrahamson LCSW presentation

Our mission is to reduce suicide in Eastern and Southeastern Idaho through advocacy, collaboration and education. Our vision is that Idahoans choose to live Community Suicide Prevention is an organization based out of Idaho Falls to serve Southeastern Idaho. We are devoted to rallying around those in the community affected by suicide and lifting them to feel renewed direction in a world forever changed by the loss of their loved one. We educate people on risks, prevention skills to stop a crisis, and postvention skills to help those affected by one.

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From tragedy, a new purpose Willow Jack , Willow Abrahamson

At this year’s Denver March pow wow, a young lady crossed the arena to accept the top award for the adult Jingle Dress contest. It was an amazing feat for Willow Abramson Jack, 28. Walking was something her doctors doubted she would ever do; dancing was thought impossible. But the Lemhi Shoshone-Bannock woman from […]

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Indigenous Traditional & Ecological Knowledge, Political Economy | Willow Abrahamson LCSW

PEOPLE EATERS- TRADITIONAL INDIGENOUS STORIES, NEWA DIKKAS Colonial Predatory Systems to Seventh Generation Healing. The same predatory, cannibalistic logic that drove colonial tiraids drives contemporary finance capitalism (according to 1899 Thorstein Veblen). Indigenous knowledge is the blueprint for liberation, and the foundation of all future sustainable economic systems. Some say, the same barbarian lineages built the systems of predatory-class power, are carried on today. NEWA DIKKAS: ONE FORCE,

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Presentation_Belonging_ Calling Our Spirits Back Willow Abrahamson 6.11.2026.pdf

Belonging: Calling Our Spirits Back to Land, Story, and Each Other Indigenizing Social-Emotional Learning through land, story, sovereignty, healing, and the journey from classroom to graduate study and beyond. By Willow Abrahamson, LCSW, CCTP · Suhuuvii Donzia. 2026 Idaho State Indian Education Summit. ISU Pocatello, Idaho· June 11, 2026. This presentation addresses the interruption and the return. The interruption includes languages suppressed and taken, children removed from families and land, ceremony restricted and criminalized, and knowledge described as "primitive." The return includes SEL grounded in land, language, and ceremony; neuro-decolonization in classrooms and counseling; sovereignty embedded in school culture; and belonging centered as shared responsibility. The session is offered as a five-pillar framework grounded in clinical and public health evidence showing cultural identity as a protective factor against suicide, ACEs, and historical trauma — from kindergarten through graduate school. It draws from federal behavioral health policy, peer-reviewed clinical research, and Indigenous scholarship.

CNN June 2026 Featuring Willow Abrahamson, Agai Dika Lemhi Shoshone on Sacajawea
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Vetted Subject Matter Experts: Sacajawea
Rose Ann Abrahamson
Agai Dika Lemhi Shoshone Culture, Language & Heritage Keeper | Agai Dika Lemhi Shoshone Oral Historian, Cultural Knowledge Keeper and Educator
Rose Ann Abrahamson is an Agai Dika Lemhi Shoshone, enrolled with the Shoshone-Bannock Tribal Member and retired educator, and a living carrier of Lemhi-Shoshone oral history, ceremonial knowledge, and traditional teachings; intergenerational knowledge that grounds this framework in lived Indigenous experience rather than academic scholarship alone.
She is a nationally, federally, state, and locally recognized subject matter expert on Sacajawea, acknowledged by institutions including Idaho PBS, the Sacajawea Interpretive Cultural and Educational Center in Salmon, Idaho (which she helped develop), by the United States Execuitive Office (2001), HBO, and documentary productions.
Her knowledge is carried through lineal descendancy from Chief Cameahwait (Agai Dika Lemhi Shoshone), deep bond to Agai Dika homelands, lifelong participation in living Agai Dika ceremony, fluency as a first-language speaker of the Agai Dika dialect, and custodianship of the linguistically genuine oral tradition. 30+ years in education, Masters degree from the University of Chicago. Fluent Shoshone language speaker, Indigenous historian. Consulting credits: Molly of Denali, Discovery Channel, HBO.
Her authority is grounded in legal and ethical frameworks including:
  • National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA), 54 U.S.C. § 300101
  • Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C. §§ 3001–3013
  • United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP), Article 31
  • American Indian Religious Freedom Act (AIRFA)
  • Indian Arts and Crafts Act (IACA)
Willow: Sacajawea Subject Matter Expert
Willow is a lineal descendant of Chief Cameahwait (Agai Dika Lemhi Shoshone,) and is notably the last Agai Dika born in her homeland. She has appeared in numerous Sacajawea cultural and historical activities alongside her mother Rose Ann Abrahamson, her aunts Emma George and Rozina George, and her siblings — carrying forward a living, familial oral tradition rooted in direct ancestral connection.
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Recent Events


EVENTS
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Healing Through Traditional Artforms
Workshops that blend ancestral teachings with hands-on creative practice, offering participants tangible connections to Indigenous wisdom. Each experience is designed to promote self-reflection, holistic balance, and cultural understanding.
Self-Love Earring Workshop
This workshop teaches Native cultural knowledge about shells, embedded with traditional teachings of self-love. Participants create shell earrings as tangible gifts for self-reflection and to honor their life's journey.
Sacred Circle Necklace
A workshop on holistic balance aligned with Indigenous teachings of the Sacred Circle. Participants create culturally significant necklaces while learning to maintain balance and connection to all living things.
Beaded Medicine Bag
Learn about the significance of traditional medicine pouches while creating a decorated buckskin pouch. Embedded lessons on personal strength provide holistic empowerment.
Traditional Regalia & Cultural Items
Ribbon Skirts, Shirts & Wing Dresses
Full-day workshop presenting historical overview of traditional clothing. Learn about solidarity, unity, and self-expression while constructing garments to wear at ceremonies and significant life events.
Star Quilt Workshop
Explore Indigenous teachings about symbolism and values in design. Requires intermediate sewing skills. Each participant creates a star quilt as a reminder of self-care, well-being, and achievement through mindful creation.
Breast Plate Making
Learn the historical Indigenous context of breast plates and their significance. Focus on self-worth, resilience, and aspirations. Participants share ancestral stories and create male or female breast plates as symbols of warrior spirit.
Traditional Choker Making
Workshop on choker history and the importance of Native voices in singing and speaking. Learn that as culture-bearers, we should introduce ourselves in our tongue, sing tribal songs, and share narratives.