Welcome

Life can be incredibly difficult at times. If you have experienced situations or periods in your life that overwhelmed your mind and body, you may have been unable to process what happened. Whether these experiences were recent or in the distant past, you may continue experiencing the distress and symptoms.

Let’s face it – the demands of our lives don’t stop while we try to heal! If you’ve been struggling for a long time, you’ve likely developed effective coping mechanisms. Your brain has an amazing ability to create adaptive “strategies” to keep you functioning. Coping might involve turning to alcohol or other substances by the end of the day, working excessively, finding ways to numb or detach, isolating from others, sleeping too much or too little, sexual addictions, aggression, scrolling, gamingand many other strategies. Although these coping strategies may now cause problems in your life, your brain and nervous system are working as designed – to keep you surviving!

Despite finding ways to continue functioning, your distress may remain just below the surface in short-term memory and stored in your body – influencing your life, shaping your decisions, forming your reactions, and causing symptoms that interfere with the way you want to live. You may also be experiencing physical symptoms like autoimmune disorders or other chronic illnesses, fatigue, digestion issues, skin problems, or chronic pain.

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When Coping Is No Longer Enough…It Is Time to Heal

Through genuine connection with someone you can trust, you will find hope and healing. Counseling is difficult work at times, but I am here to walk alongside you in the journey as a safe and caring witness to your story. You may be hurt, but you are not broken. Together, we will work to increase your self-awareness and insight into why you react, respond, behave, and feel the way you do. You will learn to embrace your vulnerability, allowing your mind and body to move through your shifting emotions.

You Are In Control of This Process

Working at a pace that is ideal for your unique healing journey, I am here to show you that hope and freedom is waiting for you. You may be frustrated with your life choices … feeling unworthy … overwhelmed … anxious … stuck … fearful … struggling with grief…. Just know that your past patterns can change. Your beliefs about yourself can change. Your thoughts can stop spiraling. You can feel more in control and regulate your emotions. You can find freedom.

YOU ARE WORTH IT!

My Approach to Counseling

We heal with grace, beauty, and integrity in rhythim with all of creation.

We heal when we are in rhythm with nature. With PURPOSE, but not in a linear path. The spiral shell of the nautilus helps me reflect on how we dynamically shift inward and outward in our growth. Obstacles and fears push us to retreat deep inside ourselves. We isolate at times. Lash out at other times. Get small. Stay hidden. Perform. Mask.

Yet we are designed for connection, for community, for relationships. We are drawn to healing.

With help from trusted others, we can again find enough safety in the world to face fears and emotions, allowing light into the dark spaces within. We keep growing, like the larger chambers of the nautilus, while also not abandoning what remains wounded within … until our minds and bodies are ready for deeper healing.

“ Know all the theories, master all the techniques, but as you touch a human soul be just another human soul.” ~ Carl Jung

I believe we were created for human connection…and in relationships filled with safety and trust, we find healing. It is never too late to process pain and embrace life as your true self. I have advanced training in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) and somatic psychology. I am aligned with polyvagal theory, attachment theory and neurobiology, and also integrate internal family systems (IFS) and mindfulness-based stress reduction into therapy.

My approach is to work with my clients’ inherent ability to heal through the mind and body, calming the nervous system. Counseling can be hard work, but it is worth the work. Embracing vulnerability leads to uncovering your strength and living free.

“Love” by Ukrainian artist Alexander Milov

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NOW AVAILABLE: Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy

My psychotherapy treatment modalities are rooted in a holistic, trauma-specialized approach that weaves together the neuroscience with wholehearted compassionate care for you, as a unique individual. I value treatment that supports the connection between your biology, psyche, spirituality, and community. In alignment with this integrative approach, I now offer Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP) to support deep healting, growth, and transformation.

Why Integrate Ketamine Into Therapy?

I often work with clients that have already tried a multitude of therapists, self-help programs, as well as a range of antidepressant and anti-anxiety medications. Perhaps this resonates with your own journey. You found some relief or shifts in mood and behavior, but still feel stuck in depression, trauma, anxiety, or substance use. I know this is painful! Especially when you continue to feel numb, alone, and disconnected from the world.

I was moved to train in the KAP modaility, because it saddens me to encounter the hopelessness and discouragement in these individuals. For some people, the integration of KAP with other treatment modalities, like EMDR and IFS, may create the potential for greater long-term healing.

Ketamine has been used in medical settings for decades and has also been prescribed in various psychiatric and pain management settings. It is a medication approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as an anesthetic and sedative for certain medical procedures and is known as a safe and legal anesthetic medication. For therapy, ketamine is used in significantly lower doses than in anesthesia. In this lower dose, it induces a non-ordinary state of consciousness, and has gained recognition for its rapid-acting antidepressant effects while also holding immense promise as a trauma treatment.

KAP combines the medical use of ketamine, with the care and safety offered through therapy. Blending the medicine of ketamine with therapy creats a potential for deeper healing neurologically and emotionally. This approach supports clients in softening the internal obstacles or defenses, so that therapy may be more effective to support you in breaking free of painful cycles, while creating growth, insight, and transformation.

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Healing doesn’t happen by revisiting the trauma – it happens by teaching the nervous system that it is safe.
Dr. Janina Fisher