Welcome!
What a gift you are giving yourself by seeking out support during this time in your journey! It would be my pleasure to explore whether we share an alignment and safety in doing the hard work of unpacking your concerns and questions. This is a brave step you are taking just by searching.
About me:
I have found helping others to be meaningful throughout my life. Prior to earning a master’s degree in counseling, there were different iterations of helping including, but not limited to, mentoring young mothers of preschoolers, mentoring young people in church, and becoming a life-coach shepherding women who were navigating the difficulties of divorce. After raising my children, I returned to school to earn a master’s degree in counseling which has qualified me to become a counselor. Often, I learn more about myself and feel so grateful that folks willingly enter a collaborative relationships with me, trusting me to hold space and reflectively listen to their stories and witness what they needed to be seen and heard. It has continued to be a passionate journey, and I am sure I will be an eternal student of life, people, and the connection we all share.
My experience and philosophy:
What I have learned is that most of us have an idea about who we are and how our childhood or our lived experiences have shaped us. We also are built with an internal healer. Just like when we cut ourselves, other than keeping it clean, we trust our bodies to heal, so it is with our psyches. However, there can be events or neglects that have left a deeper wound and may need extra measures to flesh out and allow opportunity for healing. Therapy can be a powerful tool as a kind of emotional sonagram, revealing what can use some attention. Although the treatment is a collaboration of client and therapist, the work is the client’s choice. How deep, how intentional, and how consistent is all up to the one being healed. I notice the faster folks want to heal, the slower they will need to go because lasting change requires integration time-one layer at a time.
The primary way I work with folks is to introduce them to their inner-world, which allows them to become their own cartographer (creating maps of their inner world). I enjoy framing those parts of us that want two different things (ie Part of me wants to start therapy and part of me does not think it is a good idea) as two different parts of the inner-system. Both parts want what is best for you but for differing reasons and it is the job of a neutral part called “Self” to allow both sides or multiple sides to have their say without taking over the stage. This is a fascinating approach as you may see, if you choose to work with me, because it honors how complex we all are and helps us understand why help is sometimes needed to sort out the inner confusion. It may also root out stuck emotions stored in our bodies and minds as traumatic, even if no overtly traumatic event seems to have happened. Our bodies don’t make the distinction, they just feel the pain of something that felt like “too much”, so we shoved it down.
There are many other ways to reach resolution within, and I have collected some interesting approaches to regulate nervous systems and allow space for healing along the way. Most challenges begin as these deeper issues, so whatever your presenting challenges are today, beginning to understand your inner-system may help resolve those challenges.
If any of this is of interest, please pay attention to the parts and get permission from the resistant parts to make the step towards growth and healing. What story do you want to create along your journey?
Contact Full Circle when you are ready to seek your resolution. I look forward to joining you on your steps to healing.
What a gift you are giving yourself by seeking out support during this time in your journey! It would be my pleasure to explore whether we share an alignment and safety in doing the hard work of unpacking your concerns and questions. This is a brave step you are taking just by searching.
About me:
I have found helping others to be meaningful throughout my life. Prior to earning a master’s degree in counseling, there were different iterations of helping including, but not limited to, mentoring young mothers of preschoolers, mentoring young people in church, and becoming a life-coach shepherding women who were navigating the difficulties of divorce. After raising my children, I returned to school to earn a master’s degree in counseling which has qualified me to become a counselor. Often, I learn more about myself and feel so grateful that folks willingly enter a collaborative relationships with me, trusting me to hold space and reflectively listen to their stories and witness what they needed to be seen and heard. It has continued to be a passionate journey, and I am sure I will be an eternal student of life, people, and the connection we all share.
My experience and philosophy:
What I have learned is that most of us have an idea about who we are and how our childhood or our lived experiences have shaped us. We also are built with an internal healer. Just like when we cut ourselves, other than keeping it clean, we trust our bodies to heal, so it is with our psyches. However, there can be events or neglects that have left a deeper wound and may need extra measures to flesh out and allow opportunity for healing. Therapy can be a powerful tool as a kind of emotional sonagram, revealing what can use some attention. Although the treatment is a collaboration of client and therapist, the work is the client’s choice. How deep, how intentional, and how consistent is all up to the one being healed. I notice the faster folks want to heal, the slower they will need to go because lasting change requires integration time-one layer at a time.
The primary way I work with folks is to introduce them to their inner-world, which allows them to become their own cartographer (creating maps of their inner world). I enjoy framing those parts of us that want two different things (ie Part of me wants to start therapy and part of me does not think it is a good idea) as two different parts of the inner-system. Both parts want what is best for you but for differing reasons and it is the job of a neutral part called “Self” to allow both sides or multiple sides to have their say without taking over the stage. This is a fascinating approach as you may see, if you choose to work with me, because it honors how complex we all are and helps us understand why help is sometimes needed to sort out the inner confusion. It may also root out stuck emotions stored in our bodies and minds as traumatic, even if no overtly traumatic event seems to have happened. Our bodies don’t make the distinction, they just feel the pain of something that felt like “too much”, so we shoved it down.
There are many other ways to reach resolution within, and I have collected some interesting approaches to regulate nervous systems and allow space for healing along the way. Most challenges begin as these deeper issues, so whatever your presenting challenges are today, beginning to understand your inner-system may help resolve those challenges.
If any of this is of interest, please pay attention to the parts and get permission from the resistant parts to make the step towards growth and healing. What story do you want to create along your journey?
Contact Full Circle when you are ready to seek your resolution. I look forward to joining you on your steps to healing.