Practitioners
Below are all the people who currently collaboratively sustain Succurro. Each are responsible for various projects and aspects of the place, and all are practitioners working within the Succurro context with clients, groups, and animals. You can learn more about our approach here, or book through the emails provided below. You can also attend our Community Clinic.
CO-FOUNDERS & PRACTITIONERS
DAMIAN McCANN
Damian began studying the art of change through energy work and biomechanics at the age of 18 in order to help himself with chronic pain, depression, and anxiety. In his private practice of over 15 years, he merges SourcePoint Therapy, BodyTalk, Breakthrough, and Franklin Method to aid clients in understanding how their minds and bodies work, and how their use together brings us into the present. Damian is from Cork, Ireland and is also a builder, woodworker, and drummer.
You can reach out to Damian for information or to book at mccann.damian@gmail.com
OWYN RUCK
After studying psychology and studio art, Owyn returned home to Brooklyn, NY and helped create the Textile Arts Center. Struck by the significance of creativity in individual and community health, she began training in modalities that pragmatically address blockages to healthy creative expression and the collective process of individuation. Owyn practices SourcePoint Therapy, BreakThrough, and psycho-spiritual astrology; she is an artist and weaver, focusing on the slow, curious, humanizing aspects of working with her hands as a way of returning to a natural curious state of inquiry.
You can reach out to Owyn for information or to book at hello@succurro.co
NEW PRACTITIONERS
ALLIE TOWNSEND
Allie is the farm manager at Succurro. Her interest in working with livestock began in 2019 when she moved to Succurro and had a hand in caring for the small homestead that it was. Her passion for the farm has helped to develop it into the version that it is now -- a few acres of land and many sets of hands that supports the health and growth of hundreds of chickens, as well as small herds of goats and pigs. She is fascinated by the relationship between humans and animals; particularly in the mutual support, deep appreciation and interdependent dynamic that exists between them. In an effort to explore this relationship and care for those who she works with everyday, she practices Sourcepoint Therapy® and the BodyTalk System. She offers remote and in-person sessions to animals as well; her availability is limited in the height of farming season, but feel free to reach out anyway to start the conversation at allieannetownsend@gmail.com
ISABELLA AMSTRUP
Isabella is interested in what inhibits us as humans, what gets in the way of taking practical action and our ability to respond to life. She is interested in going beyond these inhibitions to awaken innate curiosity, creativity, and embodied knowledge in herself and in others. Through practicing the modalities of SourcePoint Therapy and Breakthrough, she aims to support individuals in their everyday lives to better respond and creatively engage with the world around them.
Living most of her life in cities, Isabella has had a growing curiosity to learn about the work that goes into growing and raising food while living and working together in a rural community. Since moving to Succurro in May of 2023, she has had the opportunity to participate in the daily operations - tending to the land, caring for the farm animals, and up-keeping the Succurro lodgings. Isabella is also trained as a weaver and will be leading weaving workshops this summer at Succurro - to learn more go to succurro.co/weaving. You can contact Isabella for sessions at ibamstrup@gmail.com
REBECCAH SANTA ANA STROMBERG
Rebeccah works at the intersection of contemporary healing modalities and ancestral medicine practices.
In 2022, she received a Master of Divinity from the Harvard Divinity School as well as completed SourcePoint Therapy training. She is a certified hatha yoga instructor, and trains in BodyTalk and BreakThrough. She practices ancestral medicine, working with pattern, rhythm, and song to attend to the network of relations that we are all a part of: a network that includes and extends far beyond the human.
Nourishment deeply undergirds all aspects of her practice, and she returns to the anchor and wellspring of making food, bread, and drink with her hands and a sense of devotion, connecting with a deep well of nourishment that is always available.
Rebeccah calls on each of these threads to support the health of the whole ecosystem – the web of all beings – through attending to the health of the individual. In addition to session work, she offers journeying – working with drum and song to support the health of the individual and their network of relations in whatever is arising at this time. You can reach Rebeccah at rebeccahstromberg@gmail.com
RICH WHALLEY
I came to BreakThrough and SourcePoint with a 10 year meditation practice, trying to find a way to heal from life's, often extreme, ups and downs. These practices are all about taking life a little less personally, and embracing the generative qualities of the unknown - as scary as it can seem at first. Through this work, I've caught a glimpse of compassion that's not about learning anything special, but just about showing up to life's small opportunities each day. I'm interested in working with people who have experienced PTSD, young adults, and anyone who is curious to see first-hand, not just intellectually, that we are not limited by the stories we tell ourselves.
It's a lifelong exploration - I invite you to join me. You can reach me by text (978-407-9383) or email (rich.whalley@gmail.com) to schedule a session.