Psychotherapy.
“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.” (C. Jung)
Our Approach:
At Tethered Healing Center, healing is not fixing, it’s holding. As lifelong students of Pluralism, we believe that our psychological and physiological wounds are also paths to our gifts and spiritual liberation. We truly believe that all people have an innate healing capacity and through compassion, we can navigate to the other side of shame. We have worked extensively with issues of childhood and adult traumas and how these painful experiences have affected how we relate to ourselves and others. With awareness and sensitivity to both personal and cultural forces, we strive first and foremost to create a safe, welcoming space for you to explore all aspects and parts of yourself. We aim to work from a decolonized lens, gently inviting awareness of how pathologizing, individualistic, and oppressive social structures cause suffering and impacts how one relates to one’s sense of self. We are flexible to what you personally need, constructing therapy based on what works to relieve suffering, develop insight, and foster growth. That said, work with us tends to be more experiential than cognitive.
The foundation of our approach is fostering mindful awareness, relational safety, and integrating somatic approaches and guided imagery. In a paced and gradual way, we will focus on uncovering wounds through depth work and mind-body based approaches for exploring your self (“Parts Work”) and help you build your physiological and emotional capacity (using Somatic Experiencing®) to safely process and renegotiate wounds in an embodied way. We will also use self-compassion approaches and may incorporate holistic practices like breathwork and/or other behavioral techniques. We are especially passionate about working with people who are open and willing to do deep work. We also enjoy working with those who are interested in using therapy to explore topics such as having a life of meaning, creativity, and spiritual development. Our style is warm, non-judgmental, attachment-oriented, and trauma-informed.
Areas of Focus: Anxiety, Coping Skills, Codependency, Career Counseling, Domestic Violence, Depression, Divorce, Grief and Loss, Incest, Life Transitions, Men’s Issues, Moral injury, Parenting, Psychedelic Integration, Racial and Gender Identity, Relationship Issues, Recovery from Narcissistic Parents, Self-Esteem, Sexual Abuse and Assault, Spirituality, Stress, Trauma and PTSD, War Trauma, Women’s Issues.
We are proud to serve members of the LGBTQ+, POC+, Non-Monogamy/Poly+, and Kink communities.
Specialties
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SE® is a body-oriented approach to the healing of trauma and other stress disorders. It is the life’s work of Dr. Peter A. Levine, as a form of alternative therapy aimed at relieving symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder and other mental and physical-related trauma health problems. The SE™ approach releases traumatic shock, which is key to transforming PTSD and the wounds of emotional and early developmental attachment trauma. SE 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. This helps to facilitate 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. Sessions involve a client tracking their own experience & offer a bottom up approach by gently guiding clients to develop increasing tolerance for difficult bodily sensations and suppressed emotions. Sessions also often involve touch work to help further facilitate movement in the physiology towards healing.Description text goes here
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Parts work acknowledges the “multiple” quality of the mind—the many experiences, feelings, values, and opinions an individual can simultaneously hold—and approaches the work done in sessions through a systems-thinking lens. The parts approaches we draw from include ancestral animistic lineages, Voice Dialogue, and Jungian archetypes. Our approach focuses on getting to know the various "parts" of you and how these parts work together as a protective system to care for you. Our job in therapy is to help parts recognize that sometimes the beliefs they hold, the actions they take, and overwhelming feelings they have are based on something from the past that is no longer happening. We work together to help heal wounded parts to help other parts transform the way they operate inside you. The purpose of of parts work ultimately is to reintegrate these parts into a healthy, functioning whole. We do not ascribe to IFS as we believe this model is inherently dualistic in nature.
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Our harm reduction approach includes education and resource information; exploring potential risks and benefits of altered states of consciousness; set, setting, and safety planning; setting intention; access to supportive local community resources.
During post-psychedelic integration sessions, we work with clients to gain meaning and growth following invigorating, challenging, or disorienting psychedelic experiences. We appreciate and respect the use of psychedelics for inspiring transformation in oneself and one’s world. We also recognize that numerous non-psychedelic therapy modalities and non-ordinary states of consciousness can lead to life-altering revelations. We, therefore, offer mindfulness-based practices and welcome creative expression, mind-body awareness, and spiritual exploration into our work with clients. We view our role as a collaborator on our clients’ healing journeys and greatly value the opportunity to offer support as life stories evolve including addressing existential and psycho-spiritual issues. Our approach to integration is rooted in curiosity, exploration, and discovery.
*Please note that I do not condone the use of illicit substances outside of legally sanctioned and ethically responsible research studies or cultural ceremonies. I do not refer clients to sources for obtaining illicit substances.Item description
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Focus: PE acknowledges that individuals with PTSD avoid thoughts, feelings, and situations associated with the trauma. PE helps individuals to contact these avoided areas through a process of exposure (imaginal and in vivo). It involves education, breathing retraining to reduce physical distress, engaging in real-world situations that are being avoided, and openly revisiting the traumatic memory (repeatedly across ~9 sessions and listening to the recording in between sessions). Exposure causes these avoided situations and memories to lose their power to evoke distress and helps individuals reengage and feel control in their lives. It should be noted this is an intensive treatment, requiring commitment and a good amount of between session work. At Tethered Healing, we blend Somatic Experiencing with PE to aid in building resilience in the nervous system.
Commitment: Approximately 10-15 sessions (typically weekly), 90 minutes each. ≈1-2 hours of daily at-home practice. Description text goes here
“Wholeness is not achieved by cutting off a portion of one's being, but by integration of the contraries.” (C. Jung)
