Listen within
Hello! I'm glad you're here. My name is Lauren, and I'm a mental health therapist with a focus on experiential approaches. We will not just talk *about* what's happening with you, we will dive into it and spend our time together actively engaging with your inner world. I am passionate about giving space to the unheard stories and unhealed parts of you.
We might use sandtray, art, imagination, or other on-ramps into you listening within. Therapy invites you and I into witnessing together and coming out the other side with more freedom and more capacity to write your own story.
Here's a poem of blessing for the days it all feels like too much.
Do not despair.
You hold the memory
of what it was
to be whole.
It lives deep
in your bones.
It abides
in your heart
that has been torn
and mended
a hundred times.
It persists
in your lungs
that know the mystery
of what it means
to be full,
to be empty,
to be full again.
I am not asking you
to give up your grip
on the shards you clasp
so close to you
but to wonder
what it would be like
for those jagged edges
to meet each other
in some new pattern
that you have never imagined,
that you have never dared
to dream.
- Jan Richardson
Lauren Scislowski
Licensed Professional Counselor