Welcome
About Me
About Me
If you are searching for meaningful relational support, in which all systems of your personhood can be witnessed and tended to with presence and compassion, then I want to help you begin to know and feel that you belong. I believe that access to a loving witness is your human right.
About Me
About Me
About Me
As a human being, trauma survivor, and trained clinician, I value reducing systemic suffering. My process has led me to understand and facilitate healing that is less traditional, involving the body, internal neural networks, play and creativity, and unconscious emotional expression.
Clients
About Me
Clients
Individuals and relational systems often find me as they battle aspects of their own identities, insecure attachments, and struggle with feeling at home within themselves. I frequently work with people who have learned through turbulent histories to be appeasing and self-reliant.
Creative & Embodied Trauma-Informed Therapy For Sensitives
My Approach
- Affirming (Your Identity/Identities) - As an inclusive and affirming therapist, all races, ethnicities, genders, and sexual orientations are welcomed and celebrated in my care. Identity shaming is not tolerated in my life or within my practice.
- Compassionate and Justice-Centered (Witnessing Your True "I") - In trauma recovery, we need to experience processes that were chronically disrupted or disengaged from. Primarily, many survivors haven't had the experience of (or experienced very little of) being genuinely cared for, appreciated, and celebrated. Individuals may have only received care or cheerleading when and if they abided by dysfunctional rules or coercive control by perpetrators. In therapy, I believe it is your right to be authentically honored without performance.
- Goal/Purpose-Oriented (Healing Wounds of the Past) - My goal for our work together is to engage with the unconscious mind that holds onto unresolved trauma narratives, beliefs, and patterns. I believe that healing requires the facilitation of helping unconscious material become more conscious to the individual. In our work together, I will strive to help you uncover and release toxic stress that manifests as low self-esteem, inattentiveness, and disease.
Principles
- You are the expert of your experience. - When we work together, we are equals in relationship. I may have therapeutic training, but I am just another human being. You are, therefore, the expert of your own life experience, and I am both a witness and a guide in our relationship.
- Your mind is always pushing towards wholeness. - Neuroscience informs us that the psyche is always pushing toward the integration of experience. So even when we become submerged in traumatic stress, our minds are working with us, rather than against us. We can trust the psyche's process throughout the healing work that we do.
- You are not broken, but you have been (unfairly) challenged. - Humans are not broken, and as a therapist, my job is never to fix another person. Fixing isn't possible for a reason, and that reason reflects the wholeness of each individual, independent of the trauma experienced. Trauma doesn't break people, but it does challenge them. It's important that we establish this wisdom in our work together.
Style
- Treatment and Therapeutic Style - As an integrative trauma therapist, I adapt treatment to authentically practice in the best way that I see fit per each unique individual and/or relational system. I encourage deep internal reflection and processing that challenges programming and conditioning, attachment ruptures and unmet needs, dysfunctional intimacy and family-of-origin trauma, and complex trauma/dissociative symptoms. I enjoy using creative mediums, such as the sand tray, collage, and arts journaling, to process felt-sense experiences.
- How I Practice - In treatment, I will spend time getting to know you, and/or yourself and your loved ones who will attend relational counseling. Together, we will determine your specific needs, longings, and pain points, and will work slowly and compassionately towards a future in which you and/or your relationships feel more resilient. I focus on witnessing my clients by tending to and tracking emotional gestures, physical sensations, unmet needs, and longings. I help people connect to the present, their resources, their bodies, feelings, and needs, to find a home within themselves in the presence of relational attunement.
Returning Home to Yourself: My Clients
Features & Tendencies
- Neuro-complexity & Appeasement Tendencies -Neuro-complexity is a term that encompasses more than a diagnosis and views neurodivergence not as a singular label, but as a dynamic tapestry of strengths and difficulties. Appeasement tendencies refer to life experiences that have primed individuals for adaptations that are commonly referred to as "people-pleasing, or fawning behaviors" that occur in attachment/relationships. My clients tend to be neuro-complex humans (giftedness, ADHD, chronic illness, & beyond) who share difficult experiences with "hiding, perfectionism, and self-sacrificing."
- Sensitivity & Creativity - The clients that I work with tend to be highly intuitive, creative and/or artistic, sensitive individuals and/or relational units. Often, but not always, clients find me as they want to begin to express themselves creatively, and are struggling to get parts of them onto paper, in songs, or in their deepest other creative longings.
- Identity Expansion & Grief Transformation - My clients often find me as they are traveling through different life stages, and are opening up to the fuller spectrum of who they are and the meaning-making that they are co-creating within themselves and their relationships, with fuller expansion of what it means to be alive. In this process of change and identity transformation, my clients grieve aspects of self that have developed through survival, and they learn to welcome in softness and expansion through processing sadness, loss, betrayal, and/or rage.
Availability
Located in Downtown Asheville of North Carolina.
Email Address: radicalessencetherapypllc@hush.com
Fax: 828.340.2622
Radical Essence Therapy PLLC
Hours
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