Relationships are the agents of change and the most powerful therapy is human love. -Dr. Bruce Perry
We don't create a fantasy world to escape reality, we create it to be able to stay…We have always done this, used images to stand and understand what otherwise would be intolerable. -Lynda Barry
art therapy
Art therapy is based on the premise that the act of being creative is a quintessentially human endeavor. Pain, grief, trauma, shame, and difficult life experiences can make us feel disconnected from ourselves. The process of making art is by nature connective. It empowers us through our capacity to create. When we make art, we connect with our humanness and our humanity.
We have more possibilities available each moment than we realize. -Thich Nhat Hanh
mindfulness-based practices
Mindfulness practices help cultivate awareness of our thoughts, feelings, and experiences so that we are able to respond to our lives with greater tolerance, more self-acceptance, and less reactivity. Mindfulness teaches us to sit in the fire of life's hardships with great compassion for ourselves and others. Developing awareness through mindfulness provides opportunities to shift our behaviors so that we may act in greater accordance with our hearts.
We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. -Joseph Campbell
existential and intuitive coaching
There are moments in our lives when we feel inhibited from moving forward to the best of our abilities or making sense of what is happening or what our purpose is. Through coaching, clients are guided to understand and move through blocks and unhelpful beliefs and to identify and practice that which makes life meaningful for them.
Trauma is not what happens to us, but what we hold inside in the absence of an empathetic witness. -Peter A. Levine
Trauma-informed therapy
Trauma-informed therapy examines how past traumatic experiences impact and impede present functioning. Trauma, violence, oppression, and loss can destroy a person's sense of security and trust. The goal of trauma-informed care is to help individuals create and rebuild a sense of safety--within the therapeutic relationship, the individual's community, as well as within their own body--and to support people in gaining a sense of resolution and power over traumatic events so that painful past experiences don't overshadow their present lives.
Changing the memories that form the way we see ourselves also changes the way we view others. Therefore, our relationships, job performance, what we are willing to do or able to resist, all move in a positive direction. _Francine Shapiro
eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (Emdr)
EMDR is an evidence-based therapy that uses bilateral stimulation to help individuals reprocess traumatic events so that they are no longer triggered by reminders of what happened. EMDR also helps individuals develop more positive beliefs about themselves in relation to the trauma they've experienced. For more information on EMDR, please visit the EMDR Institute's informational page.