ABOUT V
Perhaps central to my identity is that my mother was killed by wounded men. My sister and I survived. We alchemized our wounds. We thrive, alongside my daughter, the next generation of my mother’s brilliance.
My work is born out of collective memory and blossoms from blood soaked soil to cover the earth in love.
-LaVoya Woods (ve/ver)
Genderqueer, homofluid, neuro-expansive, and disabled V Woods studies and practices black womanist care, liberation psychology, quantum mechanics, and decolonial education, all within a queer afro-diasporic cosmology. Ve applies what ve learns to ver own life and creative practice and helps others curate their optimal timeline. V does not believe that we can find safety and joy by assigning ourselves to the confines and torture of white supremacy culture, “I want to live outside of that imagination and my co-conspirators across time, space, and intention want that for themselves too.”
SELECTED HONORS
Publication Award · midnight & indigo, 2025
Black Europe Scholar · BECC, Amsterdam
American Academy of Psychotherapists Post-Graduate Scholar
Ada Sheperd Award in Fiction Writing · City College of New York
Edward Rivera Prize for Autobiography · City College of New York
V’s Relational Field Cosmology
V Woods has incarnated this cycle to disrupt oppressive timelines and expand individual and collective vibration. Ver work happens at the cellular level, where epigenetic recoding, metabolized within the individual, becomes the mechanism of disruption. This offers us opportunities to resist the binary logic that has shaped Earth's current evolution.
This methodology holds that all change happens within, between, and around relational fields: our relationship and communication with ourselves, each other, the Earth, and the divine. Rather than stopping at self-regulation, or individual healing, or even self-actualization, V supports the development of coherent relational fields that slowly alter our collective experience.
beyond brokenness
You are not broken. You are not a problem. Healing is re-membering wholeness in a broken system. Or rather, a system operating as designed, curated to convince the earth’s first people of their own brokenness. Brokenness, like victimhood, is outside of our cosmology. By releasing the mythology of brokenness we can notice and honor what is trying to unfold instead. Re-membering opens us to the vast inner universe we carry, and often abandon to survive.
our body
We understand how the body holds history, builds protection, and carries the capacity for joy. We work with the nervous system, sensation, fascia, movement, and breath to liberate our cells from past harm, in order to make friends with the unknown bright future. As we evolve our own body, we begin to see it in right relationship with the human, plant, animal, and earth body around us.
OUR LINEAGE
The engine of white supremacy culture is shame. As children we adopt the strategy of shame to survive violence, internalizing the enemy’s voice and turning it on ourselves. Naming how systems - racism, colonialism, homophobia, transphobia, patriarchy, capitalism, imprint on the nervous system across generations can help us externalize and eradicate our oppressor. We become lovers of our inner selves and enemies of the culture instead, interacting with our inheritance from a place of safety and compassionate love.
our relationships
We all need love. Love is a sacred place to land in a world where violence is currency. Relationships can be both a safe space for love to blossom and a place of harm and erosion of trust. Early bonds, ruptures, and longings forever shape our present life. The magic of the portal of unconditional love (of self, of others, of the earth) is that new patterns of intimacy, trust, and repair can make us new again.
Get in Touch
queer therapy → woodscollective.com
speaking & press → Speaker Kit
substack → The Euphoria Lab
everything else → https://vwoods.carrd.co/
