THERAPY AND WELLNESS OFFERINGS

You have full authorship of your story and depression, anxiety, dissociation, stress, burnout, and trauma happen to be  characters that take up a lot of space in this chapter, and what sounds like the past few chapters also. Remember that as the author of your story, you also have the wonderful ability to introduce new characters in your narrative.

Some that I introduce in my own story include curiosity, gratitude, pace, release, mindfulness, patience with myself, self-love, expression, forgiveness, laughter, permission, and unconditional self-acceptance, even in moments of distress. Sometimes characters might enter your story that feel unfamiliar, unwelcome, and cause a reaction to perhaps ignore, run from them, or fight them until you feel worn out, and even if you fight them, the engagement with these unwanted characters causes strain on you still, interrupting your flow and the story you’ve worked so hard to keep writing, perhaps even causing you to feel “out of character.”

I want to gently remind you that you are so strong and have all the tools to not just fight the characters, but to also befriend them. When you befriend them, you have the opportunity to learn about and from them, where they came from, how they got to this chapter in your story, and what they might be trying to protect; that way you can better learn how to address these characters, healing them and the parts of your life that have been impacted. 

-Mia Turner, MA., RYT, LMFT, ASDCS, NPT-C

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Person, Healer, NeuroPsychotherapist, Founder

Think of your life as a really big book with lots of chapters.

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Areas of Speciality

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Complex Trauma, Dissociation, & Resilience:

  • Processing intergenerational, familial, cultural, and personal experiences of resiliency and trauma

  • Recovery from violence and harm perpetuated by oppressive social, political, medical, and mental health care systems, capitalism, colonialism, cultural erasure, discrimination, criminalization, persecution, relocation, land theft, micro-aggressions, stereotyping, tokenization

  • Healing from Narcissistic Abuse

  • EMDR

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Shifting Patterns That No Longer Work For You:

  • Life experiences leading to patterns of self-blame, self-criticism, perfectionism, imposter syndrome, high masking, internalized ableism, burnout, complacency, dependency, and resentment

  • Shifting performative patterns of accommodating and adhering to “normative,” colonizing ways of dressing, thinking, feeling, speaking, healing, working, and interacting

  • Harm Reduction

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Relationships, Boundaries, & Empowerment:

  • Exploring internal, familial, relational, systemic, learned, taught dynamics of power and oppression: power to take up space, to define, share, change, silence, or erase the narratives of history, your experience, and that of others

  • Integrity in using your voice and setting sustainable boundaries

  • Addressing guilt, shame, and anxiety in navigating boundaries with loved ones

  • Mixed-race, multicultural, blended, adoptive, & alternative family structures

  • Communication barriers in relationships

  • Relationship ruptures and mends

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Rootedness, Wisdom, & Culture:

  • Rootedness and wisdom through connecting with spiritual, ancestral, indigenous, traditional, cultural, intergenerational practices, and ways of knowing, learning, teaching, remembering, healing, honoring, personifying, feeling, creating, expressing, & relating

  • Exploring and making meaning of intersections of identity, including race, ethnicity, environment, gender diversity, ability, culture, immigration generation, class, or sexual orientation; Allyship and Privilege

  • Celebrating strengths and shifting perceived cultural narratives

  • Integration of wisdom and meaning making from non-ordinary states of consciousness and psychedelics

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Stress, Autism, ADD/ADHD, Sensory Processing, Neurodivergence, & Anxiety:

  • Autism and ADHD Assessment for Adults

  • Psych-education and understanding self in relation to symptoms, experiences, environment, and strengths

  • Skills for self-nurturing and working through anxiety, Autistic Burnout, ADD/ADHD, Masking, Sensory Processing, Neurodivergence, depression, stress, occupational burnout, and being “sick and tired of being sick and tired”

  • Addressing emotional and behavioral responses to stress, trauma, change, loss, major life transitions

  • Developing Coping, nurturing, and self-preservation skills and new habits

  • Reconnecting with yourself and body through mindfulness and somatic practices

  • Learning / relearning to trust yourself

  • Protecting your peace

  • Understanding and accommodating sensory needs

  • Post-Diagnosis meaning making

At this time, service offerings are accessible to California residents via TeleMedicine/Telehealth video only. There are no in person offerings.

Service Offerings

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    Virtual EMDR

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    Therapy for Adults

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    Therapy for Teens

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    Therapy for Therapists and Healthcare Providers

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    Therapy for Relationships

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    ESA Evaluations & Reasonable Accommodations

  • Neurodiversity-Affirming Adult Autism ADHD Assessment BIPOC virtual

    Neurodiversity-affirming Adult Autism & ADHD Assessment

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    KAP

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    Expressive Arts Therapy

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    (New Offering Coming Soon!)

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-Ralph Ellison

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