Vida Libre Therapy is committed to facilitating lasting mental health healing and "liberation" by addressing root causes to mental health symptoms and distress such as trauma, socio-cultural influences, neurodiversity, metabolic health, varying nervous system states, and the effects of adverse experiences - past, recent and present.
I can help you understand the impact that trauma, socio cultural influences, metabolic health, nervous system states or neurodivergence may have on other conditions and on your relationships. I will guide you through exploring how neurodivergence, nervous system states, socio-cultural influences, metabolic health or past trauma manifests in the body and is healed or managed in relationship and by restoring safety and access where it has been lost or how to cope through active trauma and socio-cultural restrictions by imagining and paving the way for the relationship, environment and safety that we may need and not yet have access to.
As appropriate, I may integrate your practices of mindfulness, spiritual, cultural and ancestral wisdom with empirical evidence based care (CBT, ACT, DBT, PACT, Crucible, EFT, Play Therapy), psychodynamic, sex therapy, liberation psychology and attachment theory with trauma informed, mind-body health considerations, nervous system awareness and somatic based interventions (EMDR, Parts Work, Somatic Experiencing, Polyvagal Theory).
You can expect a warm, depth-oriented, empirical and holistic, cognitive and somatic, relational and personalized experience focused on facilitating lasting, effective and meaningful healing, at a pace guided by you.
Lilla Watson, Ubuntu, Thich Nhat Hanh, Bruce Perry