Counseling and Coaching services

We are designed and created with natural instincts to connect, trust, and love. When we experience early suffering, distress, or trauma, it disrupts our development. We develop adaptive strategies to deal with this pain. We all have survival styles, which are adaptive strategies that children develop when their core needs aren’t met. Even in the most loving, stable home, the possibility of not getting a core need met early in life exists for everyone. Essentially, these adaptive strategies are coping mechanisms to deal with feelings of pain, isolation, and hurt feelings. These strategies become our survival styles, which persist in our adult relationships and create adverse emotional responses.

These survival styles and adaptive strategies may start as helpful but become hard to shake, less useful patterns over time. Eventually, these survival styles cease to help us function as our lives change and can become unhealthy, affecting our relationships, careers, self-esteem, and happiness. 

In counseling or coaching, I help you reconnect to your true, God-given nature by exploring how you adapted to difficult circumstances as a child. This newfound awareness helps you understand your survival styles and connects you to your sense of agency, empowering you to choose how you want to respond to life and its challenges.

• Clients feel seen, heard, and accepted just as you are.

• Clients are supported to feel changes happening simultaneously on both psychological and physiological levels. This supports you toward increasing embodiment in the here and now.

• Clients report feeling more ease, freedom, and energy to pursue a life that allows stuck energy to move toward growth, wholeness, and fulfillment.

how it works

In counseling and coaching sessions, we work mostly in the present moment, primarily with intrapsychic conflicts, rather than focusing exclusively on personal history.

·      My approach is non-pathologizing and acknowledges the inherent wisdom of a client’s survival strategies.

·      In the process, the client becomes more aware of positive shifts toward increased connection in bodily experience.

·      All parts of a client are accepted and honored, especially those they have learned to reject.

·      They are supported in reconnecting with themselves and disidentifying from old beliefs and judgments.

·      They are supported in becoming aware of the survival strategies they still use today and how they affect their lives and their suffering.

Services

Counseling and Coaching Services are offered on an hourly basis and in an Intensive format. For more information about Intensives, click HERE.

SSP can be added to any service or provided as a stand-alone Therapy.

For more information about SSP, click HERE.

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