Services
What I Help With...
Getting You on the Right Path
Living with meaning and purpose
You probably struggle to manage all the demands and expectations put on you by simply living at this time and place. You are most likely exhausted and stretched beyond your limits. You might struggle, because you are managing so much and caring for so many. You may have that little nagging voice that is saying, “get me off this hamster wheel.” You can learn to prioritize yourself, listen to your truth, and create daily changes that will translate into a more meaningful, joy-filled life.
Overcome Patterns of Behavior that Get You Stuck
When life gives you lemons....
Sessions are set up to help you integrate all parts of yourself — physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual. Gain coping tools to help you manage discomfort, difficult emotions, or other struggles that become patterns and show up in your everyday life. Build mindful awareness and gain insight into yourself and discover new ways of approaching repetitive behaviors that perpetuate what feels like life's curve balls. Heal and build a more loving relationship with yourself.
Your Wounds Can be Healed
Healing the physiology of trauma
We all experience our wounds, trauma, and hurts emotionally, mentally, and physiologically. You may have physical pains or sensations that you have had for years that are linked to traumatic experiences, or you may have had a situation that has recently brought up intense emotions, anxiety, and reactivity. Either can be treated with one approach I use called Brainspotting.
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Brainspotting is a powerful in-vivo neuro-experiential model of treatment that accesses the deepest regions of the brain where people store their trauma experiences. This access to mid-brain and the brain stem allows deep transformation to occur. It works by identifying, processing, and releasing the core neurophysiological sources of trauma. The symptoms of unprocessed trauma include emotional and body pain, dissociation, anxiety, insomnia, flashbacks, numbing, addition, disconnection, and other challenging symptoms. These symptoms are notoriously difficult to eliminate through talk therapy. Verbal engagement does not reach the deep regions of the brain (and body) where the traumatic experiences are held, so they cannot heal. The brain becomes overwhelmed and is unable to process verbal information about these traumatic events. This sounds complete, yet is a very simple and deep experiential process of healing.
Adapted from Lisa Larson, LMFT
Are Phobias Keeping You Down?
Or possibly keeping you awake at night?
You may be struggling with exaggerated fears or phobias. I can help either through Brainspotting or with exposure methods or a combination of these. With these techniques, I have helped people conquer their fears of spiders, dogs, flying, and enclosed spaces. I can help you process what you are experiencing in a way that brings support, safety, and grounding to honor your process.
Making Meaning of Your Dream Life
Understanding your dream symbols
In individual therapy or in a small group process, explore your unconsciousness by looking at dream symbols, metaphors, and archetypes. It is bringing what is below the surface to consciousness, a creative and unique process.​ Click to contact Renee for the dates of the next Dreamwork series or for information on individual dreamwork sessions.
