RJ Kirkland

You’re good at figuring things out. You’ve analyzed yourself from every angle. But despite all that thinking, you still feel disconnected from your body, and perhaps from your loved ones and your community. Maybe you’ve done therapy before, and it left you with lots of insights…and the same old feeling of being stuck. Perhaps you’ve learned to adapt by masking your inner experience, pushing through, achieving, and caring for others. With all this “doing,” you may appear fine from the outside. But underneath, you may feel exhausted, overwhelmed, overstimulated, flat, uncertain about your needs, or frustrated that strategies that seem to work for other people just aren’t cutting it. I’m here to support you in reconnecting with yourself, building self-trust, and shifting those patterns. I won’t pretend the process is always comfortable. It often isn’t. But I believe in your capacity to grow. Many of the people I work with have spent years adapting to environments that required them to disconnect from themselves. Sometimes those environments are religious communities, workplaces, schools, political movements, or cultural expectations. Sometimes the adaptation grows out of living with neurodivergence or chronic illness. Whatever the source, therapy can become a place to reconnect—with your body, your values, your intuition, and your own way of moving through the world. My approach honors your strengths while gently challenging ways of being that are no longer serving you. I draw from somatic (body-based) counseling, creative and nature-informed approaches, and gestalt (experiential) work because I believe lasting change happens not only through insight, but through reconnecting with the body, imagination, and the parts of ourselves that learned to stay quiet simply to get by. Because of this, I especially enjoy working with neurodivergent adults, including people with ADHD and those exploring whether they might be neurodivergent; people processing experiences connected to exiting high-demand organizations, including religions, multi-level marketing organizations (MLMs), and political groups; and clients navigating faith transitions, identity shifts, or chronic illness. I also offer psychedelic integration support for clients who are already receiving legally prescribed cannabis or ketamine treatment through their medical providers, helping to thoughtfully integrate those experiences into ongoing therapeutic work. My lived experience also informs my work. I have personal experience with the LDS and Baptist faiths; nonprofit, academic, and government work environments; chronic illness; neurodivergence; gender nonconformity; and alternative sexual communities and relationship structures. Clients have described me as open-minded, pleasure-positive, calm, and curious. I welcome clients across identities, relationships, and belief systems who are looking for a therapeutic space where they can be both accepted as they are and supported in becoming who they want to be.