Therapeutic Storywork

Because freedom demands the courage to give and accept love while loving demands the courage to heal…

Therapeutic Storywork as a methodology is a tool in generating awareness and as a result, a roadmap to possibility. Whether our goal is healing trauma, understanding pain, addressing imbalance, or affirming integration and wholeness, the starting point is the same. Awareness of the story of where we are and how it has been shaped by the stories of where we have been. Although transparent conversation is foundational in this process, somatic exercises, energy work, bodywork, creative arts therapy, and ritual comprise a few of the practices that may be used on our journey of writing our stories by living them consciously, deliberately, and with joy as our birthright.

This offering is for individuals, couples, families, and small groups seeking support in:

  • Processing life and relationship transitions

  • Moving through and healing from traumatic experiences

  • Moving through mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual pain

  • Identifying and working through anger, resentment, grief, shame, and emotional stressors

  • Moving through illness and medical procedures

  • Strengthening the body’s natural self-healing mechanisms

  • Accessing greater sense of life balance, connection, and peace

  • Gaining insight into emotions, thoughts, states of being, and feeling

  • Accessing creative means of expressing emotions and fears that one cannot express through conventional means

  • Increasing self-awareness

  • Developing practices that promote relaxation and relive stress

  • Addressing conflict in generative ways

  • Cultivating authentic communication and generativity in relationships

  • Moving through pregnancy, birthing, and postpartum

  • Moving through death and dying

How We Work

Initial session

Our initial session will be focused on doing a thorough inventory of your physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual being. I will ask a lot of questions (e.g., What are you looking to make more possible in your life? What are the barriers to realizing these possibilities? What is your relationship with grief? Do you have any digestive issues?).

This gives me a better idea of the environment we are starting our journey in and what tools (e.g., dietary and lifestyle suggestions, bodywork, creative projects, somatic exercises, ritual practices) would be most useful in helping navigate the terrain. This is also where I would assess if something is beyond my scope and accordingly offer suggestions and/or referrals to practitioners that may be better suited to meet your needs.

Follow up sessions

Follow up sessions will be a combination of life story and narrative exploration through conversation and practice.

Understanding that everyone’s transformation roadmap is unique, the sessions and practices are customized to accommodate your being’s special topographic needs. Sessions are 90 minutes.

*Our work together is intended to provide insight, inspire, support, and resource the work you do in your day-to-day living. Transformation requires praxes and although I am committed to being your thought and movement partner, it is important to understand that the bulk of your practice will be outside of our time together. You are your own healer.

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No one will be turned away for lack of ability to pay.