"I have been in and out of talk therapy for many years, and found it to be pretty unhelpful. As a survivor of abuse and a queer woman with an invisible disability/chronic illness, I have been searching for a practitioner who has both an embodied experience and a political analysis of the ways in which these experiences intersect. I have found these qualities in Bruin. Somatics has been one of the most helpful forms of therapy that I have encountered thus far, in part because it works on the level of the body which is where I have experienced so much of my trauma, and in part because Bruin is a very intuitive and receptive practitioner." - WISEBODY individual client
Individual Sessions that
Set You Up For Change
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Your Investment
Clients who are most successful when working with me are deeply invested in their own change and transformation, willing to get uncomfortable, motivated to do the heavy lifting, and take responsibility for co-creating the best container for their healing.
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Our Collaboration
My clients appreciate that in my practice feedback can and will go both ways, and that I believe we should all be actively invested in creating an honest and caring space. They appreciate my sense of humor and my occasional potty mouth. They know that I care for and will fight for them and that I also don't possess a magic wand.
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The Tools You Need
Many of my clients have been to talk-therapists before. And while they can now recite their histories and details of trauma both backwards and forwards, they came to me because they wanted to learn some tools that would actually make a significant difference in their lives and figure out how to put those tools into practice.
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A Context That Supports You
Many of my clients also have had experiences with practitioners who weren't doing their own work around race, class, gender and ability, and they came to me because they wanted to see someone who takes responsibility for their own ongoing learning and believes it isn't the responsibility of their clients to educate them. If healing happens through relationship, then our relationships have to be authentic and able to hold the role of power in the world we all live in.
My values
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Body based
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Anti-Pathology
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Trauma Informed
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Rooted in Collective Liberation
I have been providing trauma-informed somatic coaching & counseling for over 15 years