Hello! I'm glad you're here. My name is Lauren, and I'm a mental health therapist with a focus on experiential approaches. We will not just talk *about* what's happening with you, we will dive into it and spend our time together actively engaging with your inner world. I am passionate about giving space to the unheard stories and unhealed parts of you. We might use sandtray, art, imagination, or other on-ramps into you listening within. Therapy invites you and I into witnessing together and coming out the other side with more freedom and more capacity to write your own story. Here's a poem of blessing for the days it all feels like too much. Do not despair. You hold the memory of what it was to be whole. It lives deep in your bones. It abides in your heart that has been torn and mended a hundred times. It persists in your lungs that know the mystery of what it means to be full, to be empty, to be full again. I am not asking you to give up your grip on the shards you clasp so close to you but to wonder what it would be like for those jagged edges to meet each other in some new pattern that you have never imagined, that you have never dared to dream. - Jan Richardson