Supporting Women With Anxiety and Trauma Counseling in Benicia & Vallejo, CA
I'm Simone, an imperfect person who's honored to support your freedom and healing
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I'm here for you and together, we explore how your experiences or trauma(s) affected your sense of who you are.
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I provide a safe, judgment-free space for you to explore beliefs about yourself and increase your self-acceptance.
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We'll focus on the underlying cause of anxiety and trauma to create a foundation for you to trust and love yourself.
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You'll learn to deal with the complex feelings that arise when you set boundaries, prioritize your needs and start engaging in relationships with confidence and authenticity.
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I honor your personhood and your right to accept or decline my recommendations.
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I regularly ask for your feedback to ensure that you are benefiting from our work.
My favorites: Laughing, connecting with people whom I feel safe with, the ocean, music, trying new foods, family fun nights at home, dancing, yoga and writing poetry/ short stories.
How I Work
This is the hard part: Talking about myself. How do you capture life experiences in a summary? Well, here goes my best effort:
I believe healing must include all aspects of our beings - or at least as much as we possibly can considering that our beings are dynamic, ever changing and sometimes difficult to define. Nonetheless, starting with acknowledging our many parts/ selves/ aspects is at least a step toward honoring and accepting ourselves. The heart of my work aims to do this. I love to support others with acknowledging, accepting, trusting and loving themselves bottoms ups, tops down, outside in, inside out and loving the part of yourself that's beyond the material, beyond attachment and beyond identity.
As I was taught early on: The healing is in the relationship and I've carried this with me because, it aligned so appropriately with how I've always viewed myself and the world...through the lens that everyone/ thing is in relationship with everyone/ thing. So, I've carried this statement with me and no matter the techniques, theoretical approaches and countless studies, I cultivate relationships with my clients and try to do so - even if it's just for a moment - with all whom I encounter.
Education
2015 - 2019
Master of Arts in Counseling
Saybrook University, California
2010 - 2014
Bachelor of Science in Human Services
University of Phoenix, California
License & Certifications
Licensure Information
Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, 137157 California Board of Behavioral Sciences
Yoga Certification, RYT® 200
Integral Yoga Academy, 200-hour Teacher Training
San Francisco, CA
Havening Techniques
Certified Practitioner
My Intentions and Commitments to You
I intend and commit to:
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Develop a safe relationship with you.
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Help you reduce internal suffering.
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Support you to increase your capacity for self-attunement and self-acceptance.
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Humbly walk alongside you.
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Help you to recognize and heal issues that make you feel stuck or limited.
I intend and commit to:
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Honor your sense of freedom over and within your life.
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Guide you to act and make choices that align with your values.
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Encourage the ripple effect that happens as you create healthy relationships with yourself, with others and your world.
An Encouragement to Find Your People
"The best advice I can offer anyone breathing in this world; find people that make you both soft and strong. People that hold you in tears and hold you accountable. People that show up to listen or help you fight. People that create safe places to land in a world that banks on your trauma. People that owe you nothing and still give you everything. People that see you even when they don’t see your path."
- Dr. Ashley Nash, PhD, NCC