Intrapersonal | Curious | Interpersonal

Keene Counsel is a nervous system and trauma informed mental health practice offering individual and couples counseling in California, Oregon, and Washington.

Here, you are seen and you will be treated with holistic care. Through existential wanderings in your past, present, and future, concrete planning and skill building, creativity, and curiosity I am here to help you move towards the life you want; whether that's a brand new life or to move towards important aspects taken by trauma, pain, illness, and feeling different or othered from the people around you.

I view the challenges you share from a nervous system perspective whether you identify as having a nervous system disorder or not. This attention and perspective is supported by data, client experience, and trauma informed care. This means that I believe the body is doing its best to keep you safe and that fight, flight, freeze, and fawn may not be working for you anymore. I also know that we can use the data the nervous system is giving us to understand when and how you can up or down regulate, self soothe, or change direction to find balance. We'll do so through a combination of evidence based practices, primarily Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), somatic interventions, and Motivational Interviewing with attention to Attachment and Existential Psychotherapy.

I am also a yoga teacher and may bring in movement, breath work, and energy based interventions, helping to build, rebuild, and strengthen the brain - body connection.

I believe, and research supports, that the therapeutic relationship is more important than a particular model. I hope to get to know you person to person rather than expert to patient.

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