Trauma-Informed Reiki, Life Navigation & Disability-Affirming Support

A woman with short red hair and glasses wearing a black floral dress. She is sitting at a table with her arms crossed, showing tattoos on her shoulders and a smartwatch on her wrist. The background is a beige brick wall.

A Little About Me

Before this work, I spent years in corporate interior design, accessibility, training, and problem-solving as an NCIDQ-certified designer.

Today, I bring that same systems-based way of thinking into trauma-informed support, Reiki, disability advocacy, accessibility, and Life Navigation.

I tend to notice the places where environments, systems, and expectations stop working for the person using them.

Then I ask:

What would make this actually work better for the human being in front of me?

[Meet Monica]

Restorative Healing Haven is a space for healing, support, education, and community built around real bodies and real lives.

I’m Monica Munson, a trauma-informed practitioner, Reiki Master Teacher, disability advocate, and NCIDQ-certified designer.

My work is especially informed by trauma, neurodivergence, chronic illness, disability, accessibility, and the reality that capacity can change from day to day.

Work With Me

Life Navigation & Support

Practical, trauma-informed support for the parts of life that feel hard to untangle alone.

We can work through decisions, planning, systems, accommodations, routines, paperwork, major transitions, or simply figuring out what needs to happen next.

[Learn About Life Navigation & Support]

Distance Reiki

Restorative Reiki sessions you can receive from home.

You can join from your bed, couch, recliner, wheelchair, or wherever your body is most comfortable. Cameras can stay off, you can move or stim as needed, and the session can adapt to your capacity that day.

60-minute sessions are $80.

[Book Distance Reiki]

Learn Reiki

I offer live, trauma-informed Reiki certification classes online in small groups.

My approach centers accessibility, consent, nervous-system awareness, practical learning, and creating a Reiki practice that works for your actual life.

[Explore Reiki Classes]

Disability, Trauma & Accessibility

A large part of my work is education and advocacy.

I write and create content about disability history, accessibility, chronic illness, trauma, neurodivergence, nervous systems, and what it means to build support around people instead of asking people to constantly adapt themselves.

[Read the Restorative Blog]

The Restorative Blog
Accessibility Was Never Given Freely

Curb cuts, captions, ramps, accessible transportation, and accommodations can feel like ordinary parts of modern life. But many of these forms of access exist because disabled people organized, protested, and demanded change. Accessibility has a history, and that history matters.

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Three Years Later, My Life Looks Completely Different

Three years ago, I thought I knew what my life would look like. Since then, I’ve left a marriage, been diagnosed with PTSD, become disabled, lost the corporate design career I spent years building, started using a wheelchair, and learned to live with POTS, dysautonomia, MCAS, chronic pain, hypermobility, and bulging discs. This is the story of what changed, what I lost, what I built, and what it means to create a life around the body and person I am now.

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Everyday Ableism: “But You Don’t Look Disabled”

Disability does not have one appearance. Someone can be young, dressed well, smiling, standing from a wheelchair, or able to walk short distances and still be disabled. This post explores everyday ableism, invisible and dynamic disabilities, mobility aid use, and why disabled people should not have to prove their suffering to be believed.

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Disability History Is American History

Disabled people have always been part of American history, but their organizing, protests, and fight for civil rights are often left out of the story. From Section 504 to the ADA, disability history shows us that accessibility was not simply given. It was fought for.

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