About

About Thaysa

I’m Thaysa, founder of Elementos Living.

I offer non-clinical support for people seeking a deeper relationship with their body, emotions, inner knowing, and lived experience.

I hold a bachelor’s degree in Occupational Therapy and am a registered Occupational Therapist. While Elementos Living is not an occupational therapy service and I do not provide clinical care here, my health sciences training deeply informs how I understand the nervous system, embodied experience, and what it means to sit with someone in difficulty without trying to fix or rush them. That foundation doesn’t lead the work — but it never leaves the room.

Over more than a decade, I have practised and trained in somatic approaches, and completed three dedicated trainings in psychedelic-assisted therapy and integration. Long before any of that was formalised, I was the person in my circle that people came to — walking alongside family and friends through difficult seasons, supporting integration after profound experiences, sitting with what had no name yet. That informal apprenticeship shaped me as much as any training did.

I am also guided by my lineage. The ancestral and cultural frameworks I carry offer a different kind of knowing — one rooted in wholeness, reciprocity, and the intelligence of the living body. As a migrant, I know what it is to arrive somewhere without a map, to hold two worlds at once, and to find ground in yourself when the ground around you is new. My own recovery from burnout gave me another kind of map — of what it is to move through depletion and find your way back, not quickly, not perfectly, but honestly.

I started Elementos Living because of something I kept witnessing across years of working with people in complex and difficult seasons: most care is built around containment and crisis — and very little of it is built around recovery. The quieter questions — how are you sleeping, eating, who is around you, what does your body actually need — rarely make it into the room. Time, systems, and the pace of everything conspire against it. When burnout came for me, I chose differently. I went slowly. I paid attention to the ordinary things. And I found my way back. That experience — and genuinely believing that this kind of unhurried, whole-person support works — is why this space exists.