Discover, nourish, and complete the entire circle of your well-being.
The Whole Circle approach is informed by a reverence for the power of narrative and the transpersonal.
Our practice creates a safe space that includes a spiritually-intentional set and setting. Narrative therapy informs our worldview of structures of oppression and modern power and helps empower those who consult us to take primary authorship in writing the story of their lives. All who seek to grow their consciousness are welcome.
Our mental health consists of multiple domains. To make sustainable progress, we work with the whole circle.
whole body
The practice offers medication management that is person-driven. We do not believe in prescribing for the sake of it, nor do we believe that psychotropic medications need to be lifelong treatments.
The practice works with ketamine as a vehicle for consciousness expansion and will expand to other psychedelics once they become legal. Read more about ketamine here.
Lastly, we also offer the use of nutritional psychiatry as a means of approaching your mental well-being through what you consume.
The practice will be expanding to offer a variety of holistic somatic services such as subtle energy healing (e.g., healing touch, therapeutic touch, Reiki, etc.), Hakomi/SE, reflexology, guided imagery, biofeedback, aromatherapy, music, and sound therapy
whole mind
The practice offers individual psychotherapy to emergent adult and adult populatons. We do not see ages below 18 years. We intend to offer group and couples work in the near future.
The foundation of our psychotherapy worldview is narrative therapy. Some suppositions of the narrative worldview as defined by Michael White:
Everyone has meaning-making skills.
Everyone tells stories.
The meanings we give these stories shape our lives.
We are often not aware of the extent to which we are fabricating our lives through acts of living.
Life is rich in experience but very little of it gets rendered significant.
Life is multi-storied, not single-storied. Even when things feel stuck or futile, there is usually an invisible preferred storyline to be discovered.
Therapists listen for these storylines, and we support people to develop the preferred storylines richly.
Change comes from the foundation people develop when they richly develop their preferred storyline. Rich story development allows people to become more aware of some actions they could take that are in harmony with what they give value to, and what they intend for life.
You can learn more about Narrative Therapy here.
At times an eclectic approach may be used. Other modalities that may be incorporated include existentialism, Rogerian therapy, some behavioral therapies (ACT, DBT, CBT, MBSR), and some transpersonal therapies (IFS, Jungian archetypology).
whole person
Narrative therapy speaks about relational identity, which is the belief that identity is (amongst things) shaped by our experience with others and their perceptions of us, by culture, and by social context.
We think about “self”, or identity, not as a noun referring to a container filled with resources, but as a verb referring to a project we are pursuing in active, ongoing relationship with other people across a wide variety of contexts. - Jill Friedman and Gene Combs, EFTC
Our family, friends, and our society impact the way we feel, think, and act. The modern approaches to psychotherapy are isolating and problematizing of the individual. People are not problems, problems are problems. Healing takes place not just within the four walls of the therapy office, but within the community.
At Whole Circle, we ideate ways to build a tribe that supports your preferred narrative and explore activities that spread the news of your change. We practice re-membering those who are important to you and we create and share documents of your travels with trusted fellow travelers.
whole spirit
The traditional medical model has long underwritten and buried spiritual practices as a valid means of psychological treatment. At Whole Circle, we view the spiritual domain as an essential part of the circle.
Our spiritual work is closely tied to our consciousness work. We make room during and outside of journeys for the transpersonal in the forms of Jungian archetypes, shadow work, trance, ecstatic dance, chanting, tarot, oracle, crystal, meditation, and energy work.
While Whole Circle does not ascribe to any particular religious path, we are a deeply spiritual and magical practice working diligently to build a bridge between the ordinary and the non-ordinary.
You are welcome here, regardless of belief.