Welcome to Longleaf Healing Arts!

Hello there!

My name is Treva Ellison and I am the founder of Longleaf Healing Arts. This practice grew from my own healing journey — from grief, recovery, prayer, art-making, study, and learning firsthand how powerful touch can be when it is offered with skill, consent, and care.

While recovering from a spinal surgery during a season of immense grief, I found myself wondering whether my body would ever feel trustworthy again. During that season, the Southern longleaf pine became a loving witness and guide as I rebuilt trust with my body. Longleaf pines listened to my prayers and helped transmute my tears into intention and action. The longleaf pine’s deep and wide roots, resilience, and steadiness continue to guide this practice.

Longleaf Healing Arts is grounded in rooted care: loving witness expressed through skilled touch, collaborative communication, consent-based and trauma-informed practice, and deep listening to the body’s wisdom. My approach is shaped by training in massage therapy, Reiki, Spiritual Herbalism, my experience as an educator, abolitionist values in practice, and training in and study of the Pachakuti Mesa tradition.

From lived experience, I bring a deep commitment to connection and care that honors agency, boundaries, transformation, and the sacred intelligence of each living being.

I understand the body as more than just a physical structure; it is also an emotional, mental, energetic, and spiritual vessel. The body’s physical structure carries memories, lineages, grief, resilience, and possibility. Because of this, my work honors the whole person — muscles and fascia, breath and nervous system, emotion and spirit, boundaries and belonging.

At Longleaf, healing is not something I do to you. Healing is what we create together: my training, presence, and hands meet the wisdom of your body and your intentions, and together we listen for what is ready to soften, release, integrate, or return. This practice is trauma-informed because I believe care should honor the many ways our bodies have learned to protect us.

Longleaf Healing Arts is a cornerstone of my life’s work of healing intergenerational trauma, cultivating peace and harmony, and living beyond survival.

Thank you for visiting! Hope to meet you on the table soon.