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Chronic Pain & The Stories We Hold
Healing, I came to understand, needed to incorporate more than treating the infections. I live a full and meaningful life again. I credit many people, practitioners, and healing modalities along the way, but I first began to experience a profound shift when I started addressing the emotional layers of my illness and my past, untangled the fear and the grief, and cultivated a sense of trust and safety within my body—even in the presence of pain. It was only then that I felt my system had the capacity to truly absorb and metabolize what it needed to heal.
Meet Julie
Meet Julie Kittredge, LPC Learn more about her and her work at http://www.juliekittredge.com
When Love and Values Diverge: Rebuilding Connection with Your Adult Child
Somewhere along the way, your grown kid started seeing the world differently than you do — and the distance that's opened up feels painful and uncharted. Acceptance of each other is not the same as disagreement and there can be a way forward with curiosity on both side.
Meet Lindsey, ‘26-’27 Counseling Intern
Meet Lindsey, Counseling Intern. Learn more about her at https://rithnercounseling.com/lindsey
Meet Caroline
Meet Caroline Fraase, LPC. Learn more about her at https://www.carolinefraase.com/
When Difference Feels Dangerous: Exploring Difference, Deepening Connection, and Practicing What It Means to Stay Open to Growth
Explore the psychology of othering through a psychodynamic lens. Learn how projection, exiled parts, and compassion shape our ability to navigate difference.
Meet Lindy
Meet Lindy Pearson, LPC + Supervisor. Learn more about her at lindypearsoncounseling.com
The Legacy of Silence: The Father Wound
The Father Wound is the invisible but felt impact of an emotionally unavailable father figure throughout childhood. It has impacts on intrapersonal and interpersonal health and relationships.
Meet CJ
Meet CJ Rithner, LPC + Supervisor. Learn more about him at cjrithner.com
Meet Meagan
Meet Meagan, artist and counseling intern - MeaganTarka.com
Art as a Path to Wholeness
Art offers a powerful healing path toward wholeness, not by erasing brokenness, but by helping us hold grief, trauma, and joy together with compassion. Drawing from personal experience as an artist and counseling intern, this reflective piece explores art as a healing language that integrates fragmented stories and invites deeper presence, curiosity, and hope.
How to tell a great 5-minute story
A few easy suggestions for writing a great 5-minute story for The Art of Story nights.
Meet Constance
Meet Constance, practice owner of Deep Medicine.
The Beauty of “Collective”
Discover the beauty of collective care at The Art of Becoming. Explore how a slower, human-centered, multi-modal approach fosters integration, growth, and healing through dialogue, diversity, and relational connection. Learn about our ecosystem of clinicians and the power of community in supporting both clients and practitioners.
Part-time office availability
Part-time light-filled office space in Central Old Town available for healers interested in supporting clients in a collaborative and peace-filled environment.
River of Losses and Longings
To those who carry grief in this season, we honor the quiet bravery of your heart—the way you rise each day with what cannot be seen, yet still choose to keep living forward.
Longing for Connection: The Hidden Impact of the Mother Wound
Explore the mother wound, its impact on self-worth and relationships, and how women can heal, nurture themselves, and find emotional clarity despite complex mother-daughter dynamics.
Spiritual Homelessness: When Becoming Threatens Belonging
when it comes to spiritual belonging, and the increased exodus of people moving away from their spiritual homes of origin, we should be curious enough to ask…
“Why are people choosing not to belong?”
The Art of Aging Out Loud
Aging as Becoming- Reframe aging as the lifelong art of becoming by embracing resilience, loss, and beauty at every stage of life.
The Art of Re(membering): A Summer with Our Inner Child
We will close the series in the open air of Spring Park, celebrating the joy that comes—not from perfection or arrival—but from remembering who we are. We will play our way back to authenticity, exploring joy as a sign of healing and a form of resilience. Join us for a casual evening of shared laughter and reflection, where we will honor that joy isn’t earned. It’s your birthright.