Welcome
About The Oak Institute
Rooted in care. Grown through challenge. Led by the sacred intelligence of those doing the quiet, reparative work.
The Oak Institute exists for those navigating the deep end of leadership, caregiving, and systems change—leaders, practitioners, educational guides, parents, and healers who are doing far more than their job title suggests.
This is a place where emotional depth, intuitive truth, and intelligent strategy meet.
Where repair is possible.
And where others like you—wise, weary, and wildly essential—can find tools, support, and resonance.
Whether through reflective supervision, healing-centered facilitation, or pathfinding consultation, we meet you where you are, not where someone else thinks you “should” be.
This isn’t about managing burnout or bouncing back.
It’s about asking: What happens when we stop abandoning ourselves to keep systems moving?
Why “Oak”?
The oak tree is a living metaphor for this work:
Wide roots. Slow growth. Steady strength.
Restoration through connection—across time, seasons, and lineages.
You’re not here to grow fast and fracture.
You’re here to take up space, deepen, and remember your own wisdom.
What if there’s a different way to do this work—one that includes you?
The kind that honors your insight and your limits. That makes space for grief, complexity, and genuine care.
Because leadership isn’t about holding it all—it’s about holding what matters.
Are you ready to lead without abandoning yourself?
Let’s begin there.
Meet Tricia
Guide. Facilitator. Educational Wisdom Keeper.
I’ve spent over two decades working with parents, educators, leaders, and healing professionals—often in the places where regulation, identity, learning, and lived trauma collide. My work lives in the quiet, tender spaces—where people are sorting how to keep showing up in systems that weren’t built for their wholeness.
I come to this work as an educator, a reflective supervisor, a systems thinker, and a healing-centered facilitator. Titles aside, I’m here to hold space for what’s real—and to meet people without assumption or performance.
I founded The Oak Institute because I saw how often people doing the deepest care work were emotionally depleted, spiritually disoriented, and professionally undersupported.
And because I know this for sure:
Quiet leaders hold the repair the world needs.
I exist to support them.
My approach blends somatic and emotional intelligence, rigorous training across systems, and lived experience as a parent navigating unexpected diagnosis and ongoing advocacy. I believe care work is sacred. And that we need new language, new models—and more room to be human.
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