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Emerge Holistic Therapy, 972 Western Avenue, Brattleboro, VT (2025)

12/12/2025

Ima get a little woo on ya and say...

Therapy is soul retrieval.

When I talk about soul retrieval, what I mean is the process by which a person moves back into a state of integrated wholeness after soul-level traumas cause fragmentation or disconnection from parts of the soul. This may have happened a very long time ago.

This kind of trauma can result in spiritual-emotional illness, confusion about purpose and belonging in the whole, and a disconnection or misalignment in relationships with the human and other human beings that are part of our soul's web. In this state of fragmentation a person is vulnerable to getting lost from their soul path, relationships, purpose and well-being. In this place we become especially vulnerable to exploitations and being out of integrity with ourselves and our values.

Here's the thing though - THIS IS SO NORMAL AND COMMON in the West it can be hard to even conceive of an integrated individual, let alone an integrated community. And - I see so much personal and collective healing happening!

The steps for retrieval (but not necessarily in order) are: 1. Identify major misalignments to work, creativity, relationships, or behaviors and start setting intentions for change. 2. Connect with longing and commit to tending the things that are most important. 3. Attend rituals that help releasing and clearing of energies that are harmful. 4. Find the practices that support you to land in your body, heart,and emotions (this varies widely). 5. Go through the hard and scary emotions that are your soul's memory of the trauma and hold/be held through this experience. 6 Integrate the parts of yourself that are coming back on board and the changes that may be required. 7. Hold a celebration or personal rite of passage to honor what you've reclaimed.

All this happens with a buttload of support from other people and unseen ones!

Sometimes we need to set a course and just start moving in the direction of our soul's north star. There's a point in healing when there's a lot of momentum because reconnecting with and loving oneself is so deeply fulfilling.

If you're motivated to do this work, I'm here for you.

11/03/2025

Sometimes in relationships when people feel hurt, what they need is for the other to learn how to love and care well for them.

A person may feel “not heard,” “not honored,” “not respected,” “not loved,” but what they really need is a way to communicate what exactly it means to them to be heard, honored, respected, loved. Part of the growth in relationship happens through teaching our relations how we want to be treated.

This turns to conflict when one person feels controlled or criticized. The growth happens when these needs are acknowledged, named, and negotiated.

I can help you and a partner, family member, or friend practice caring well for each other.

Be in touch to schedule a free consultation with me ✨

10/30/2025

I'm offering specials for Holistic Counseling sessions through the end of 2025. It's a good opportunity to gift yourself or a loved one some integrative support.

You don't have to be a long-term therapy client to come see me for a Holistic session. In this type of session, I assess your needs and offer some guidance and work with the body to slow down and attend to what arises.

10/17/2025

Here are the offerings I would really love to do… comment if you would be interested!

Confessional Sessions
Reclaiming the healing power of confession. Either in an online or in person 1:1 conversation, share about what you’re carrying on your heart that you regret - harms, mistakes, or misdeeds that you want to repair. I will offer you a reparative action(s). (I could possibly set this us to be anonymous.)

Ritual for That Which Did Not Occur
A ritual focused on griefs for what you hoped would happen that did not occur - in a previous life stage, relationship, or dream you held. Share this grief with others in a group, honoring and releasing ghosts of the past.

Relational Mapping
A fun & creative exercise of mapping your personal animist relational web. What kinds of relationships with human and other-than-humans are you in collaboration with?

08/07/2025

Someone recently donated a session with me to anyone who could use it. I was able to offer this session to a client who is working on trusting in the unfolding of life, loosening the grip on old structures and beliefs in order to live in more interconnection and flow. Spiritually/conceptually, this idea of letting go of structures like Capitalism is great - and practically, it requires mutual aid and acts of service in community to be living into Material Magic Beyond Capitalism. I felt the power of someone receiving a gift of support and blessing, at the right moment, from someone they don’t know.

I usually have 1 pro bono client but this month I have 3. I love offering my services and I benefit from having work that feeds me emotionally and spiritually! If you’d like to support this work by offering a donation toward someone’s healing, I welcome this.

✨taina✨
Venmo -lyons-1

05/16/2025

The freeze, flee, fawn, or fight responses can echo through lifetimes (personally & collectively). If your soul experienced or witnessed a shocking loss or violent act, you may be living out the reverberations. This can look like: chronic anxiety or depression (flee/freeze), living out of integrity to your own values (fawn), being non-committal in your relationships, work, or location (flee), abusing others or committing acts of violence (fight). There’s an initial shock to trauma in which there is not as much choice, as the automatic responses take over. Over time, there is more choice. You may understand within yourself or in the actions of others, whether they are in a reaction state, perhaps a reaction state that lasts a whole lifetime. Shifting back into loving, safe, creative engagement with life is possible.

In My Grandmother’s Hands: racialized trauma and the pathway to mending our hearts and bodies, Author and therapist Resmaa Menakem says “Unhealed trauma acts like a rock thrown into a pond; it causes ripples that move outward, affecting many other bodies over time. After months or years, unhealed trauma can appear to become part of someone’s personality. Over even longer periods of time, as it is passed on and gets compounded through other bodies in a household, it can become a family norm. And if it gets transmitted and compounded through multiple families and generations, it can start to look like culture. But it isn’t culture. It’s a traumatic retention that has lost its context over time. Though without context, it has not lost its power. Traumatic retentions can have profound effect on what we do, think, feel, believe, experience, and find meaningful.”

Here are some practices from Resmaa’s book for supporting the release of old trauma.

05/16/2025

Intact creativity informs development across the lifespan, of relationships, work, sexuality and expression of self. It can be repaired and is worth repairing.

05/01/2025

In a partnership where mutuality is present, the other becomes a mirror. You may admire (or feel triggered by) their creativity, their power, their kindness, their loving nature, or whatever it is you appreciate about them. Even if you and your partner are quite different, if you are in mutuality, there is a spiritual equality.

A person might ask themselves, “In what way am i disconnected from my creativity, kindness, power, love, etc.” They need to trust in their worth. Then they can reconnect with these aspects in themself.

In this way, partners elevate each other, as one person comes to integrate their own creativity, power, kindness, love, or whatever. It may be expressed in a very different way from their partner, but the magic of spiritual partnership is that the other can guide one home to themselves just by being authentic. It’s how two people, or a group harmonize with one another.

05/01/2025

Do you think war is inherent to human society, in the way that some conflict is inherent to human intimacy and relationships?

If so, what do you think comprises ethical or compassionate war? If not, what do you think would move a society beyond war?

04/24/2025

I’m sorry if I blocked you.

It wasn’t totally conscious. I was protecting myself and my energy.

I haven’t been ready to step fully into my work as your guide.

Timing matters.

I’ve been learning and growing.

I’m ready when you are.

04/01/2025

I’m making space for ✨two✨ individual eco-counseling clients for a 6 month therapeutic mentorship from July through December 2025, with a focus on climate. The intention is deepening/repairing relationship with a specific other-than-human relation to support you to hold fear/uncertainty related to the climate. You would be a good fit if you:
-Your work or activism is related to Climate Justice, or you would like to “do more” to engage with climate issues as a citizen
-You struggle with climate-related anxiety or fear
-You want to connect more directly with nature for guidance
-You’re interested in ritual practices as well as problem-solving

Throughout this mentorship, we will:
-focus on connecting with an other-than-human ally
-process grief or fear
-create offerings and an altar
-cultivate receptivity and intuition
-identify specific guidance for you in your climate work or activism

We will meet twice a month for 1.5 hours in the Brattleboro, VT area, with some of the time spent outdoors. This will be an emergent, custom process will bring magic, beauty, healing, and action to you.

This work is central to my values as a guide and counselor working from an animist perspective. Bridging communication and building relationship with nature is a powerful act of repair and creative resilience! I bring the support of many of my other-than-human relationships and well ancestors to the process.

If you are interested, please submit this Google form (link in comments).

There are three payment options:

Subsidized : $75 per meeting ($150 per month or $900 for the whole mentorship)

At Cost : $150 per meeting ($300 per month or $1800 for the whole mentorship)

Subsidizing : $250 per meeting ($500 per month or $3000 for the whole mentorship)

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