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RELATIONAL HEALING & NERVOUS SYSTEM REGULATION
INCREASING AWARENESS FROM THE INSIDE-OUT. If you’re here, you may be seeking something more than symptom relief—you may be longing for deeper healing, meaning, and reconnection with your true self. Psychospiritual counseling is a holistic form of therapy that honors both your psychological well-being and your inner spiritual life. It integrates modern trauma-informed psychotherapy with mindfulness, depth psychology, and ancient wisdom to support healing at every level of your being ~ body, mind, and spirit. My work is especially centered on supporting women and nonbinary folks socialized as female who are navigating trauma, stress, distress, life transitions, identity questions, or the quiet ache of disconnection from themselves. Many of the people I work with are highly sensitive, intuitive, or spiritually inclined, yet also struggling with anxiety, distress, relationship challenges, grief, or burnout. You may feel “functional” on the outside, yet exhausted or lost on the inside. Therapy can be a place where your whole self is finally welcome.
APPROACH
My relational approach to therapy is to help you change your relationship to suffering by holding yourself and your experiences with kindness and increasing your awareness of the choices in your life. Pleasure and pain are not optional. Suffering is. When we work together, I am most interested in what you want from therapy and how our connection can help you uncover and fulfill these important needs. In other words, we want to bring whatever is currently unconscious or at the edge of your consciousness into the full light of consciousness so you can have a more intimate and mindful relationship with yourself and others. This takes time and compassionate intention as we build trust, get to the root of things, and look deeply at relational patterns in and out of therapy, working together toward freedom from conditioning. What you will notice right from our initial correspondence is that I have a warm personality and care about what is happening in your life. In addition to my in-depth study and expertise in psychotherapy, I am a down-to-earth and compassionate companion in helping you change your relationship to suffering. I use whatever works in my vast toolbox to help you, but lean most on these relational approaches that support freedom from conditioning: Psychodynamic Therapy, Neurobiologically-Informed Trauma Treatment, Buddhist Psychology, Mindfulness-Based Therapy Transpersonal Psychotherapy / Non-Dual Awareness Counseling, Ecopsychology, Social Justice Lens.
ABOUT
I am a lesbian with a mixed heritage background (Mexican and Italian on my mom’s side & Italian, Irish, Polish, and French on my father’s side) committed to freedom via spiritual awakening and social justice. Originally from the South Side of Chicago, I was raised by a single mother and grandmother in a Catholic working class family. I welcome women and nonbinary folks raised as female from all backgrounds to my practice. Pronouns: she/her. Through a relationship of trust and compassion, I provide a safe space to help you change your relationship to the thoughts, emotions, behaviors, and energies that create suffering. With a balanced approach that both accepts where you are in your process and addresses your immediate needs for action, we create a framework for healing. I am present, warm, intuitive, grounded, and appreciative of your unique experience. While I hold an optimistic perspective, I am neither afraid nor hesitant to go into the deepest and darkest places with you. I trust that whatever happens in our time together is exactly what needs to be unfolding for healing.
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