Owl Medicine Healing Circle, LPC

Licensed Professional Counselor

(Offers Online Therapy)

Emotions can often be described as energy flowing through the body, distressing emotion seems to come from this energy flow being blocked or stuck in the body, often through the use of old beliefs and thought patterns that are more disruptive than helpful. Finding these patterns and leaning how they operate can help a person create choice and opportunity for relief from the distress. I practice this way of self healing in my own life and have witnessed others as well for the past 20+ years find empowerment and peace of mind. Happiness feels like freedom to me, it just takes some awareness and willingness.

Client Focus

Session Format: Individual

Age Specialty: Adults

Treatment Approach: Cognitive/Cognitive-Behavioral, Existential/Humanistic, Experiential, Gestalt, Jungian, Person-Centered, Psychodrama, Somatic

Approach Description: The focus will be on self awareness from a holistic perspective and how this relates to emotional wellbeing. Learning about the influence the mind has over the body and uncovering the wisdom within the body that leads to healing emotional suffering.

Owl Medicine Healing Circle Practice Details

License #: 74242

License State: TX

Therapist(s) Gender: Female

Practicing Since: 2015

Company: Owl Medicine Healing Circle

Education: MS, Mental Health Counseling in 2014. Outside of academic training I would engage with a mentor for 20 plus years that taught me through both personal experience and group trainings a way to infuse the spiritual discipline system and perspective of the Lakota into a counseling framework.

Average Session Fee: $130.00-$150.00

Accepts Insurance: Yes

Insurance Details: Blue Cross Blue Shield, Aetna, Cigna, UBH, Tricare

Offers Online Therapy: Yes

Online Therapy Details: Teletherapy through face time or Zoom as well as phone calls are offered to all clients who are either cash paying or when specified in their insurance benefits.

The method used in my practice is a blending of cultural wisdom learned from the Lakota and Gestalt therapy exercises. This blending creates a way to experience the healing process physically as the exploration progresses. This way offers the client new tools to practice and incorporate into life. It is essentially an exploration into the motivations and actions of the ego or shadow self and learning to use this information to empower the part of us that is not ego. The learning that goes on gives the individual a way to recognize how they create emotions and in doing so create more choice about what emotions to create. It is not to say that a person who practices this way of doing things will never experience sadness or other types of emotional pain again. It is simply offering a self empowered response to it that allows for the potential for less suffering. What is being taught is self awareness in a way that leads to stronger self confidence, better choice making and increased happiness. Things that will be explored are the way one speaks about the self and others, ideas and beliefs about the self and others, what we make important and how that might help or hinder us and much more.

The perspective or foundation from which I view this work is that it is for the purpose of increasing freedom through the creation of choice. The premise being that we operate much like a computer. When we are born we do not yet have any software in our hard drive, or brain. Once this program is in place it begins to govern our choice making without us even being aware of it. So, if we are operating from a program, this would limit choice. In taking responsibility for letting the program be in charge we can begin to create choice and put ourselves in the drivers seat so to speak. As children we quickly become programed with software that is downloaded through the process of experience. What we experience creates the programming. The adults around us are responsible for creating our experiences. They can only create experiences for us that they have been programmed with themselves. This is how we pass on our faulty programming to our children and they to theirs. This programming sets in motion a particular response pattern to various stimulus. It uses beliefs to keep the programs operational. Beliefs about the world and the self. We are taught to identify this programming as the self and not to question it. When we have a negative reaction to something or someone, our programming tells us that “they” have caused us to feel bad. This is easily accepted because on the surface it does appear to be a cause and effect relationship. To some degree it is cause and effect but not in the way we usually think it is. If I have a program running in my hard drive that tells me to create the response of anger every time I hear a certain opinion or statement, then that is what I will experience. I can then make the emotion more powerful with the belief that the emotion is morally justified and therefore my motivation for negative behavior may also be justified as a consequence. What this might look like if it is played out between people is, one person says to another that they are stupid for thinking the way that they do. The person receiving this comment then subconsciously activates the programming that says to create the anger and hits the other person in the face. This interaction is the direct result of two programs interacting, running on autopilot. This lack of awareness of the program and how it can influence thoughts, feelings and behaviors is what I believe to be the root cause of most of human suffering. Learning to identify the programs and the beliefs that fuel them, can be an important first step to achieving freedom from life on autopilot. In my experience, experiential therapies are the most effective way to accomplish this because that is how the programs were born in the first place, through experience. My current view is that although it may not be possible to delete a program, I have experienced how to make the program less powerful. Utilizing the method I now teach others has led me to this increased level of freedom from my own programming.

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