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SOMATIC THERAPY
Founded on the principle of the body and mind working in functional unity, Body-Centered Psychotherapy describes therapeutic approaches that integrate a client’s physical body into the therapy process. Also referred to as Somatic Psychotherapy, this is a process that recognizes the intimate relationship between the human body and the psychological well-being of a person.
Body-Centered Psychotherapists view the body as a resource for self-discovery and healing. We help you access your innate somatic wisdom in order to better understand and treat your concerns and help you heal. Incorporating mindful awareness, touch, breathing, and movement techniques to address a wide range of mental, emotional, relational and physical health concerns.
Body-Centered Psychotherapy and Somatic Experiencing gives us access to memories, emotions, and beliefs that are otherwise beyond words and cognition. If you have struggled to understand how your body and mind are seemingly on different pages, we can help you in bridging the mind/body gap.
Unresolved trauma, depression, and anxiety can affect the body in many different ways. Chronic pain, tension, fatigue, and insomnia are just a few of the physical symptoms that may be associated with concurrent mental health challenges. Exploring the psycho-emotional layer of these conditions may lead to greater self-awareness, self-regulation, distress tolerance, and living a fuller, more vibrant life!
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The Somatic Experiencing® method is a body-oriented approach to the healing of trauma and other stress disorders. It offers a framework to assess where a person is “stuck” in the fight, flight or freeze responses and provides clinical tools to resolve these fixated physiological states. The SE approach releases traumatic shock which is key to transforming PTSD and the wounds of emotional and early developmental attachment trauma.
Trauma may begin as acute stress from a perceived life-threat or as the end product of cumulative stress. Both types of stress can seriously impair a person’s ability to function with resilience and ease. Trauma may result from a wide variety of stressors such as accidents, invasive medical procedures, sexual or physical assault, emotional abuse, neglect, war, natural disasters, loss, birth trauma, religious trauma, systemic and/or racial trauma, or the corrosive stressors of ongoing fear and conflict.
The SE approach facilitates the completion of self-protective motor responses and the release of thwarted survival energy bound in the body, thus addressing the root cause of trauma symptoms. This is approached by gently guiding clients to develop increasing tolerance for difficult bodily sensations and suppressed emotions.
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EMDR is the acronym for Eye Motor Desensitization and Reprocessing. It utilizes bilateral stimulation, which activates both hemispheres of the brain; allowing for the processing of emotions, memories, and other traumas stuck in the nervous system. EMDR also targets cognitive limiting beliefs that often arise out of trauma.
The Somatic addition to EMDR helps with deeper embodiment while processing trauma. This is interwoven into EMDR sessions through tracking sensations, deepening awareness, gentle movement, and self-regulation. All to help identify the root of the pain and alchemize it into a restoration of safety and agency within. Somatic EMDR allows for a deeper attunement into our innate healing capacity. We begin to listen to the stories of our bodies inside of a structured approach to healing that targets limiting beliefs, emotions, and sensations.
MINDFULNESS AND ATTACHMENT-BASED PSYCHOTHERAPY
Mindfulness is the gentle and compassionate effort to be continuously present with your experience. Pain is a basic part of human life. We go through our lives avoiding pain and resisting uncomfortable experiences, thus creating barriers between ourselves, our deep-seated emotions and others. Often, the resistance of our pain equals greater suffering. We guide our clients in being unconditionally and lovingly present for each experience that emerges, holding all parts of themselves with softness, awareness, and curiosity. Through mindful awareness, we learn to experience each passing moment fully, non-judgmentally and with self-compassion for our experience.
Understanding Attachment
Unfortunately, we had no say or control in whether our needs would be met or unmet in our childhood and infancy. We simply responded or adapted to the experience instinctively. That means this adaptation or attachment style is the “original blueprint” for how we perceive, connect with and relate to others and the world around us––and it often informs our adult relationships unconsciously. Our attachment system is rooted in an instinctual, evolutionary urge to connect to our caregivers, as it ensures our chances for survival. Why is that important? Because it means that we are already biologically wired for secure attachment. Our innate attachment system is highly adaptable, which means we can all learn new skills and tools to help us return to our dominant state of secure attachment, enabling us to experience authentic connection, safety, and joy in our lives and relationships.
In therapy, we can learn to
Recover Secure Attachment: Attachment tools help us see unhealthy behaviors in the context in which they were created—knowledge that gives us hope and sets us on a healing path toward healthier, more loving relationships.
Grow More Resilient: Trauma or relational wounding can leave you struggling with a variety of challenging feelings and emotions. Despite our past, it’s possible to strengthen our innate ability to heal, reconnect and thrive!
Repair & Reconnect: An attachment framework helps us see how early experiences shape current patterns and behaviors––insights that help us learn how to reconnect to ourselves, others and the world around us.
SPIRITUAL GUIDANCE AND HEALING
Our deepest passion lies in working with other spiritual seekers. Guiding them in their sacred journeys home toward an awakened heart and an embodied mind. The journey can be a lonely and confusing one. We assure you that you are not alone.
If you find yourself in a juncture of searching for direction, meaning and spiritual connection, we will happily join you in the deep end and offer a float. Trusting that there is a great reason we have been brought together for this chapter of life.
We all know there is something bigger than ourselves. When we can touch that place, if even for a moment, and feel the source energy that is Love, then this world makes more sense and becomes a place we want to inhabit.
Spiritual Offerings
Earth-based rituals and ceremonies
Psychedelic integration and preparation
Guided meditations & visualizations
Tools for grounding and protecting
Cord-cutting ceremonies
Energy clearing and hygiene practices
Highly-sensitive person and empath skills
Exploration of spiritual philosophies and practices
Using nature as a resource and ally
Teachings around cyclical living
Working with lunar and solar energies and wheel of the year
Oracle card readings
Women’s wisdom traditions
Breathwork
Mindfulness meditation
YOGA THERAPY
Yoga therapy is a type of therapy that uses yoga postures, breathing exercises, meditation, and guided imagery to improve mental and physical health. The holistic focus of yoga therapy encourages the integration of mind, body, and spirit. This is often woven throughout our sessions and offers greater resources to tap into both comfort/calm as well as strength and expansiveness.
SEX AND RELATIONSHIP THERAPY
Many individuals and couples come into sex therapy in the midst of navigating emotional pain, shame, and confusion. So often in society, and even in therapy, sex is seen as a taboo topic and therefore it does not get the attention it needs. Naturally, where there is silence, there is shame. This can make it challenging to find places to speak about our concerns without judgment and stigma. It can deepen shame when we reach out for help and have experiences of feeling misunderstood and rejected. If this is you, you are not alone and are welcome here just as you are.
Intimacy, love, and sex are deeply connected to all parts of our personal lives. We are all born from sexuality and therefore, it is a natural and creatively powerful energy within us. It is also tied to our culture, race, class, religion, and ethnicity. It is no wonder that sex therapy has a way of bringing up some of the most tender parts of who we are. We believe when we have corrective, healing spaces and relationships to explore this topic that we can begin to open into the vastness of our humanness.
Our intention is to bring compassion, awareness, and empowerment into individuals’ and couples’ lives. To dismantle shame and process traumas that keep us from fully inhabiting our sexuality and desires. We are here to honor, celebrate, bring confidence, and help create the sex and relationships you want.
Areas of Focus
Healing Sexual Trauma
Desire and Intimacy
Dismantling Shame Around Sex and Sexuality
Relationship Issues
Dating
Kink
Infidelity
Orgasm Issues
Conscious Uncoupling
EXPRESSIVE ARTS THERAPY
Unlike traditional art expression, the process of creation is emphasized rather than the final product. Meaning, you don’t have to be good at art to have a meaningful experience through the art therapy process! Expressive Arts therapists share the belief that through creative expression and imagination, people can examine their bodies, feelings, emotions, and thought processes. Expressive arts therapy is the practice of using imagery, storytelling, dance, music, drama, poetry, movement, dreamwork, and visual arts to foster insight, growth and healing.
The use of the expressive arts multiplies the avenues by which a person in therapy may seek meaning, clarity, and healing. While we still use talking to help process and make sense of the art, the accessibility of expressive arts therapy is due to the focus being not on artistic outcomes but rather on the process of creating. Through the use of the individual’s senses the imagination can express, flourish, and support the inner work.
PSYCHEDELIC THERAPY
Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP) is a holistic modality in which ketamine is used as a complement to psychotherapy to help eligible patients experience more frequent breakthroughs and sustained improvement in symptoms. Ketamine is a legal, safe, and effective medicine used to treat a variety of mental health conditions, including depression, anxiety, and PTSD. Ketamine has rapidly acting antidepressant and mood-enhancing effects, which can begin to take effect 1-2 hours after treatment. Ketamine can also enhance overall neuroplasticity for lasting improvement post-treatment.
While Ketamine is the only legal psychedelic available for therapeutic use in Georgia, we do provide psychedelic preparation and integration services for journeys you plan on taking outside of the therapy office.
Please inquire for more information on the process and eligibility.
INTERNAL FAMILY SYSTEMS (IFS) AND PARTS WORK
Working with inner parts including inner child parts is a big part of this practice. One of these methods is Internal Family Systems (IFS) - a transformative tool that conceives of every human being as a system of protective and wounded inner parts led by a core Self. We believe the mind is naturally multiple and that is a good thing. Just like members of a family, inner parts are forced from their valuable states into extreme roles within us. A true spiritual Self energy is at the core of everyone. It can’t be damaged. It knows how to heal. IFS is frequently used as an evidence-based psychotherapy, helping people by accessing and healing their protective and wounded inner parts. IFS creates inner and outer connectedness by helping people first access their Self and, from that core, come to understand and heal their parts. Inner child healing happens from this work as well.
