Psychotherapy is creative nourishment

 

Psychotherapy offers a relationship rooted in attunement, deep listening, and the growing of trust. This relationship centers the client’s curiosities and needs. This is wise healthcare: a focused and generative way to support health and wellbeing in the midst of all that we face in our lives.

Psychotherapy is A pathway

to release, rest, and restore

grow your roots and land into yourself

deepen sturdiness

compost the impacts of overwhelming life experiences

to feel less inner pressure,

more centered and at ease,

more present in your own life

grow skills for creative response to the challenges we face

deepen capacity to care well for yourself, your relations

learn to advocate for yourself and your communities

unfold the magic you carry

deepen embodied courage at your growing edge

weave your wisdom into the world

Relational ecology helps us reclaim our sense of belonging

Kind, responsive, relational inquiry can help us learn how to relax our nervous systems and become more present, more connected to own being in this moment as well as to wider community.

When we learn to ride the tides of turbulence, to modulate our nervous systems to feel safer and more here-and-now, then it is easier to unfold more supple and playful expressions of who we are. Then it is easier to find our voice, and make choices.

As we deepen our capacity to modulate our own activation we develop more options for responding to the challenges and opportunities of the present moment with clarity, creativity, courage, suppleness, and skillful flexibility.

These threads create creative resilience, helping us weather and respond to the ongoing storms of life and shape dynamic relationships that feel nourishing, clear, and loving.

together

We are dynamic, living beings, who grow and change throughout our lives. Like all living beings, our ecology is to grow and restore through relationship.

Though there are many cultural narratives that praise self reliance, such as managing alone as a measure of independence or strength, we are actually relational beings primed to grow through relationships. Much like great trees who stabilize through weaving their roots with one another, so too humans have always gathered to make it through hard times.

Our deepest injuries are often relational, and this can impact our feelings of safety in relationships and groups.

When therapy is rooted in nonviolence, consent practice, collaboration, attunement, and a social justice approach, it can be a meaningful, tender, potent, effective way to heal the legacy of these experiences of harm.

In the midst of intensity, psychotherapy can function like a paddle to help navigate rough waters.

And when we are on the threshold of a life change, the alchemy of companionship can help us gather and know ourselves to step forward with more courage and clarity.

Psychotherapy is a reliable relationship of kindness and curiosity, which places your experience, needs, and growth at the center.

  • "one of the most vital ways we sustain ourselves is by building communities of resistance, places where we know we are not alone."

    bell hooks

  • "The human brain always retains the capacity to learn, change, and grow. While trauma can inhibit or block this capacity, once the trauma has been addressed, growth and positive change become possible again"

    Resmaa Menakem

  • "Contrary to what we may have been taught to think, unchosen suffering wounds us but need not scar us for life. It does mark us. What we allow the mark of our suffering to become is in our own hands.”

    - bell hooks

  • "...Doesn't everything die at last, and too soon? Tell me, what is it you plan to do With your one wild and precious life?"

    Mary Oliver

  • “At its heart, belonging isn’t about being good enough to be included ‘in the tribe.’ Quite the opposite. It is an inside job that requires self-reflection, redefining what we’re committed to: forgiveness, fierce love, and deep spiritual labor.”

    Reverend angel Kyodo Williams

pathways for healing through psychotherapy

 

restoring embodied resilience

Our bodies are wise healers, adept at repairing injury. Our psyches also.

Weaving healing through holistic methods means welcoming mind and body, emotion, and spirit. We come together to rekindle inner rhythm, the capacity for supple flow that we all carry at the center of our beings.

Breath and movement, centering and grounding, boundaries and release, rest and relaxation, enlivening play, creativity, and connection.

These are the methods of Old Healing Wisdom, which humans have made use of throughout the centuries.

We can draw upon these wise supports as we turn towards the places where we feel overwhelmed, hurt, exiled, dead, buried, agitated, tangled. These methods offer us sturdiness, titration, and voice as we work with the experiences that ache to be released and tended.

healing trauma anxiety and depression

In trauma work, in tending anxiety and depression, we are relearning flexible capacity for modulation. We work with small aspects of life experience, in the present moment, through mindful exploration.

We metabolize trauma and uncoil anxiety, restoring supple yield and strong push, getting unstuck and restoring supple flow.

This is enlivening, deep, gentle work, which can be subtle and can be intense, which supports and strengthens embodied resilience.

Releasing trauma held in our nervous systems, reinstating capacity for active defenses, rediscovering capacity to relax, rest, and engage.

Places of contraction and fear, numbness and collapse, can be restored to greater ease, dynamic flow, and a sense of belonging.

This is transformative experiential growth.

tending grief and loss

We create sanctuary together, to feel the emotions that need to be felt, gather the meanings that can be gathered, spending time with the mystery, honoring truths.

Grief is an experience that cannot be denied. Grief is potent, and requires soulful attending.

Ceremony, ritual, art, poetry, music, movement, Ecology, relations with Earth Mother… grief has a rhythm and a sacred flow.

Tending grief and loss is crucial: to be whole, real, known to oneself and others. Tending grief is a path for deepened belonging in the fabric of life. Tending grief deepens our life force.

Weaving creative, somatic psychotherapy, from wise lineages

  • Somatic Psychotherapy: Sensorimotor pSychotherapy and Hakomi

  • Arts Therapy: visual Arts, Writing, theater games, embodied playfulness

  • social justice praxis: radical dharma, somatic abolitionism, intersectional feminism, queer liberation

  • Dance and Movement Therapy: gesture, sensation, and movement phrases, call and response, creative improvisation

  • Earth relations and Wisdom traditions