Dr. Renée G. Soule

“Apical” refers to the growing tip of a plant’s branches and symbolizes the tender-most evolving edges of our life. Apical buds are also choice-points, where careful pruning promotes growth in new and different directions. Crossroads are critical junctures. Sometimes change is chosen, and other times life requires that we change. In either case, self-worth, grounded authenticity, and honoring cherished values can ease necessary change. Turning points also reveal hidden doubts, old fears, and baffling resistances to fresh beginnings. Ripe with healing potential, apical junctures are ideal opportunities for inner work and professional support. Along with tending the creative edges of your evolving life, my approach to counseling nourishes the roots of wholesome understandings and perspectives. We have all been hurt, yes, and our collective context is rife with crises. In times such as ours, inner balance and healthy relationships matter. What is possible if we reframe and engage crises as initiatory possibilities to update our capacity to relate, repair, and create? Like skilled gardeners, together we tend what we value and encourage healthy outcomes in times of transformative change. I've been developing and teaching ecopsychology for 40 years and have worked in academic, wilderness, and prison settings. As an Associate Mental Health Counselor, I work under the supervision of Nicholas Barth, LMFT who also practices in Bellingham. Supervision means all my clients get special (and confidential) attention!