Re-learning to connect with. your nervous system (body) in a trauma informed gentle approach using mindfulness and self-compassion as our guides.

Compassionate Inquiry® is a psychotherapeutic approach created by Dr. Gabor Maté over several decades while working with both patients and retreat participants. This approach gently uncovers and releases the layers of childhood trauma, constriction and suppressed emotion embedded in the body, that are at the root of mental and physical illness and addiction.

I will provide a session that offers information on where stress comes from, what it does to our nervous system, what can be done to reduce stress and regulate our system, empower them to advocate for their own health and "put on their oxygen mask first", ending with strategies and an opportunity to practice a wellness/self-care activity- BUT only AFTER an explanation of our protective, and resilient human adaptations that I mentioned in the first paragraph and how these 'protectors" need to be seen , and told they are no longer needed. Because this is the entryway to actual self care which means nothing if we don't have self-compassion and healthy boundaries.