Clear Life Counseling and Consulting

I'm a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Master Certified ART Therapist. After more than 16 years in mental health and hundreds of trauma-processing sessions, I've learned that lasting change often requires us to go deeper than coping. I know this work personally, too. Years ago, I found myself rebuilding my life after a difficult divorce. I was overwhelmed, struggling to function, and knew I needed more than coping. I needed resolution. What I found changed the way I understood healing and ultimately changed the work I do today. The famous Austrian psychiatrist Viktor E. Frankl wrote: “Today it appears more important to remind man that he has a spirit, that he is a spiritual being. Psychotherapy should remember this...” I believe that, too. Healing is not only psychological. It is physiological and spiritual as well. You Are More Than What You Were Taught to Be We begin life with something beautiful and whole within us. Then, along the way, experiences teach us what is safe, what is acceptable, who we need to be, and what parts of ourselves we need to hide or emphasize in order to survive, be loved, and belong. We can carry those lessons for so long that they begin to feel like who we are. They can shape our health, our work, our relationships, and even how we relate to God. But they aren't all of who we are. Part of healing is reuniting with those parts of ourselves that were covered and distorted so we can operate from authenticity and make decisions based on clarity instead of clouded by pain or fear.