FROM GRIEF AND TRAUMA TO EXPANSION

My focus is on holistic well-being

You want to live a deeply connected, joyously expansive life.

But you live in an incredibly confusing civilization. Information is always coming at you. Your life is so busy you don’t even know how to slow down and listen to your desires. You feel disconnected from people and disconnected from yourself. You long for a healthy, thriving planet, but the state and suffering of the Earth feels overwhelming. You know there must be a better way than the way you’re living, but what is it and how do you get there? Where do you even start?

Bringing together

Mind

Body

Spirit

There is a kind of magic that happens when we learn to slow down. As we practice being present, we begin to hear what our life really wants. We begin to notice how interconnected our symptoms of pain, avoidance, confusion, fear, and anger are. We begin to see that we have some work to do: around grief and around renewal. As we learn to slow ourselves down and listen, we begin to notice the many ways we experience life: as body, as mind, as spirit, as members of larger ecosystems. I help people slow down so they can expand into the life they want.

A Few of the things i offer

Grief Work

Loss and death are incredibly painful, it’s the kind of pain that takes so much space in our lives. But we live in a culture that doesn’t make space for grief, and so we never really learn how to grieve. You need a sacred space where you can work with your loss and allow it to transform you. Together we will navigate your grief and help you move forward.

Trauma Reprocessing

Trauma takes us by surprise in very challenging ways. It takes away our trust in ourselves, it turns us into hypervigilant people, and it complicates all of our relationships. But trauma doesn’t have to take over your life. You were designed to heal. I help people reprocess trauma and get their lives back.

Weekly Intensives

Sometimes we don’t have the time to wait months or even years to reprocess the trauma and expand into who we KNOW we’re meant to be. I offer intensive trauma and expansion work that takes place over one week. If you’re looking to jumpstart your therapeutic journey, or want to expand more rapidly into the life you want, an intensive might be for you.

Ceremony Design

We are creatures of time and space. We’re designed to make memorials and hold ceremonies, it’s part of how we make meaning in our lives. The things we lose and the things we welcome in all deserve space that honors them. Together, we will design a ceremony for you to aid in your process of grief and expansion.

Why choose me

I bring years of expertise in spiritual, psychological, and ecological healing.

I am a licensed therapist seeing clients in Oregon and Washington. With studies and experience in psychology and counseling, spiritual traditions, Reiki, agroforestry and permaculture, and trauma reprocessing, I look at the whole human experience. Engaging our relationship with our pain, our desires, our bodies, and our belonging to each other and the Earth offers us an incredible path for healing our wounds and expanding into our full selves.

Words from some clients

“Amanda is not afraid to talk about death; she holds the space around grief in a way that feels sacred and safe. I've been more able to enter the experience of loss and the transformation it brings because of my work with her.”

L.W.

“Accelerated Resolution Therapy changed my life. I'm not kidding. My nervous system is no longer activated by post-traumatic stress. I've left the weight of those experiences behind, and that has opened up so much possibility for my life”

C.S.

"Amanda's deep inner knowing and intuition make her an incredible therapist. Her relational attunement and connection to the work anchor the therapeutic process. Without hesitation, I would recommend her to anyone seeking transformative healing and growth."

A.J.