find your flow
Experiential Somatic Therapy
(Not Just Talk But Tools)
Tired of anxiety, depression, anger? Tending grief? Struggling with trauma and intergenerational burdens? Burned out and lost purpose? Wanting change
but feeling stuck?
Services
Counseling
Counseling often begins when we hit a rock in the river. We need help getting unstuck, mending our vessel, navigating the river--harder tasks when in the dark of depression, turbulence of anxiety, or painful underground river of grief. Through this process, we get to know the waves; we learn the water. We heal hurt and free ourselves from painful patterns. We find how we flow. We tap into peaceful, energized states of mind that become new ways of being that deepen and widen our lives.
coaching
In Coaching, we may feel stuck but are ready for adventure. We tune into our inner compass, study maps, or plunge in, refining our skills and process as we go. We immerse ourselves in what matters most. And we cultivate flow. We extend our strengths, venturing into new levels of wellbeing, skilled activity and relationship—becoming as big as we always were.
Why a somatic approach?
Somatic approaches drop below our habitual tracks and traps of thought. They operate below the words, closer to the roots of our raw experience.
One is example of somatic is Gendlin’s Focusing approach. In Focusing, we tap into the currents of our experience and learn how to help our lives flow. Usually we contract that wideness, grappling with self-other, inside-outside, past-present future chaotic and overwhelming. integrates Focusing brings into focus what matters most right now. This approach is a transformative balm for our busy, fragmented times—it is holistic in the way that healing dreams or poems, metaphor or music washes over us, changes us. Gendlin quote on the essence of change.
wHY Experiential? (Talk and tools)
Immersive creative. State to trait. Mindfulness…for ADHD… And so in our work together we weave various explorations and practices, tailored to you, designed to disrupt and dissolve painful habitual patterns and experience fresh states of being.
WHAT ABOUT tALK AND TOOLS?
Sharing our lives aloud with a caring witness can be deeply healing in itself. Full stop. (Much has been written on this.) And words can help us find our way. Core questions and attuned metaphors can be doors that open up new perspectives and possibilities. But talk can sometimes become a wall, limiting our view and movement to what we already know, or think we know. After all, words live at some distance from experience, and healing and growth (life!) are experiences.