RESET YOUR BODY-MIND & RESET YOUR LIFE!
RESET YOUR BODY-MIND & RESET YOUR LIFE!
WHO WE SERVE
PEOPLE WITH CHRONIC PAIN & HEALTH ISSUES
Dr. Tabitha has worked for 30 years in natural pain and stress relief. She understands how mental health can affect our physical health and vice-versa. If you are dealing with chronic body pain, life challenging illness, and other conditions worsened by stress, overwhelm, and significant life changes, Dr. Tabitha can help support you in an inner journey of healing that can dramatically change how you relate and respond to these difficult life challenges.
With these challenges, combined counseling with supportive mind-body medicine are especially helpful. Qigong classes (moving meditation) and Impower Healing Counseling Circles (TBA) will also be helpful options to consider as you seek to become an impowered participant in your own healing process and find supportive community.
PEOPLE WITH SENSITIVE NERVOUS SYSTEMS
Almost all of us have times when our nervous system is on high alert due to shock, loss and grief - if not actual PTSD. If you are one of the 20% of individuals (HSPs) born with a more sensitive nervous system to begin with, these times can be even more stressful. A whole-self approach combining counseling with acupuncture and holistic medicine can create a brilliant synergy to help reset and reintegrate the nervous system in any of these scenarios -- helping to process emotions, feelings of overwhelm and find your center again. If you don't "feel like yourself" it may be a clear signal that it is time for a reset!
INDIVIDUALS SEEKING EMOTIONAL BALANCE
Dr. Tabitha provides a safe space for individuals with feelings of anxiety, depression, body image issues, and some kinds of trauma. If you have talked to a therapist for years and hit a wall, or if you have been taking medications, but the issues come back the minute your dose needs to be refilled, you might benefit from a mind-body approach to counseling that gets to the root of the issue.
Both talk and medication can be important for some individuals. At the same time, we are neither entirely "human thinkings" or "giant bags of mostly water" (nod to old Star Trek fans there). We are these things and entire systems of parts that interact with each other.
For example, I might be able to manage anxiety by looking at and controlling my thoughts, but it doesn't necessarily make the anxiety go away. This is because the root of many emotional imbalances, triggers and trauma are not even in the talking part of the brain! To get an actual shift to occur, it's helpful to talk directly to non-verbal parts of the brain where the challenges actually live.
This means using a language that these parts understand -- which is what a mind-body integrative approach does. The goal is to help you integrate those charged experiences and free yourself from old patterns that keep you stuck in old ways of being - while also giving you more access to your own inner wisdom.
PEOPLE WHO WANT TO CHANGE THEIR MIND-BODY PATTERNS
From birth, we absorb unconscious patterns from our family, culture, and early experiences. By the time we are seven, we are filled with most of the primary wounds and beliefs that will feed the story of our lives -- unless they are challenged and upgraded.
This act of questioning, in fact, is the primary task of adolescence. But some of use didn't get to do that. At the same time, many of these "bugs" in our system were imprinted before we even had language. This is where a holistic approach including the non-verbal use of creativity and body wisdom can be especially helpful.
In this way, we can honor what helped us survive, while having the option to let go of patterns that no longer serve us and discern what things are useful to us going forward.
SLEEP CHALLENGED INDIVIDUALS
2/3 of people are walking around without enough sleep -- either by lifestyle or by circumstance. Research shows that lack of sleep is undermining our mental health, contributing to chronic health conditions including brain health issues (lack of focus, poor memory, & dementia), undermining efforts at weight loss, weakening our immune system and actually shortening our lives.* Dr. Tabitha pays special attention to your particular pattern of sleep challenge combining the benefits of counseling with acupuncture and East Asian medicine to help you achieve your goals of better quantity and quality of sleep.
CAREGIVERS
Impower Healing provides "care for caregivers" who are at risk for experiencing compassion fatigue due to dealing with emotionally charged situations such as: mental-health care practitioners, healers, social workers, teachers, parents and anyone else who may experience burnout due to their deeply giving or service-oriented nature. Exploring the roots of these patterns along with radical self-care and wellness support can be just the thing to pull yourself out of burnout and into a better place of filling your well so that you can give from a place of abundance.
CREATIVE & SERVICE-ORIENTED BUSINESS OWNERS
Creative or motivation blocks? Self-esteem issues? Finding the balance between calling and making a living? As a both a creative and service-oriented business owner for 30 years, Tabitha is passionate about helping support others in bringing their gifts out into the world where they can make a difference. While many people can coach you around goals, counseling can help you get to root of patterns that may hold you back from expressing your true, authentic brilliance in the world.
SEEKERS IN SPIRITUAL OR PHILOSOPHICAL CRISIS
There comes a time where the faith or philosophy that we grew up may challenge the truth that currently lives inside of us. Tabitha's bias is that anything worth truly believing can stand up to deep questioning. In fact, this is difference between hard-earned faith and blind belief. In this word of personal spirituality, there is only one path - yours. Whatever spiritual, religious or philosophical tradition moves you, it will be held with the deepest regard and with the goal of deepening your relationship to it. Tabitha has extensive experience in exploring world religious and philosophical traditions, including multi-cultural, indigenous and new age traditions that might have expansive ideas of what is "normal."
* Walker, M. (2017). Why we sleep. Scribner