Paul Ziller Psychotherapy

03/16/2025

For all curious therapist, bodyworkers, or similar practitioners, a trusted colleague in Lexington, KY, Amanda Huffman is leading this SE BASICS Workshop May 3rd! Check out the url link below for more details. Somatic Experiencing (SE), a trauma-informed modality, has the power to help a practitioner transform a client's nervous system.

https://events.blackthorn.io/en/3hCnqZ6/g/Mjk62em8He/lexington-ky-basic-principles-of-setm-may-3-2025-4a4IUQm1Hx/overview

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01/19/2024

This compassion, and self compassion, especially for one's coping is essential. And a titrated, trauma-informed somatic approach can help you further your healing process, unlocking it in your nervous system. I work with Somatic Experiencing to help build resiliency in the system, increase one's capacity to down-regulate, and return to, or be in more states of safety with more regularity.

10/13/2022

This was as good a reminder to me, as to my clients. Autumn always seems to carry this unspoken invitation in it, just by its nature: weighty, cooler, earthier. 🍁 And, I love accepting that invitation in any ways I can. The integration and renewal in the dormancy and rest are as essential as the growth and expansion in more active, directly engaged times. 🍂 A natural ebb and flow necessary for our sustainability and balance. Our socio-cultural-familial narratives (incl. capitalism) no doubt pull us in one of the directions...so that often needs some countering. Take good care.

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07/24/2022

slowing down. contacting nature. i 🤎 the eucalyptus bark surface. the earth tones, smooth texture, and coolness. what resource(s) did you lean into this weekend that supported you? /

07/23/2022

I just discovered this non-profit, dedicated to providing remote mental health services with Black Mental Health professionals for Black and African American individuals. Absolutely FREE!!! Contact them for services, consider a donation, OR pass it on. EVERYONE should have access to therapy services!

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07/20/2022

Hi there. I haven’t posted in a long while. This writing jumped out at me, and I wanted to share it with you.

I don’t ascribe to the “get better” wording, and would reframe that as “feel better”….BUT the essence of this (“healing involving healthy grieving”) is often revealed to be the case in this work. As well as possible anger too.

What has been your experience of healing, or any stage of therapy? Would you be surprised if sadness, grief, or anger accompanied your healing journey?

Warmly, Paul

11/01/2021

Last week I watched the new “DUNE”! Based on Frank Herbert’s original, and written in the Potrero Hill neighborhood (Mississippi St.) in San Francisco, I was quite captivated again by its quietude, stillness and spirituality (in the midst of constant threat and tension).

This famous quote near the end of the film especially resonated. Ironically, psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihaly, whose work featured the mental state he coined as “flow” passed away last Tuesday at 87.

Is “FLOW” or a flow state something you touch into or experience? What are the ways you are able to touch into your own flow state(s)? What are the sensations, feelings and features of that for you?

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07/20/2021

I'm pleased to announce my return to a physical office, my new space in the Inner Richmond, SF, near Golden Gate Park. It's part of a therapy suite of 5 offices. I'm offering video telehealth, in-person & hybrid sessions ongoing. It's wonderful to be able to sit with clients in all of these ways again.

07/20/2021

06/03/2021

These Sensitive documentaries are a great way to witness and explore (Highly Sentive Person) traits, self-discoveries, and skills. If you find this world can seem too much at times for you (through senses including sight, sound, touch, or realms including relationship, workplace, media), I encourage you to give one of these a try...

Looking for films to watch this weekend? ✨ Watch the entire Sensitive film collection ✨ FREE ✨ on Tubi❗️This includes: 🎥‘Sensitive and in Love’ (romance/drama);
Elaine Aron’s latest documentary on HSPs in relationships 🎥‘Sensitive Lovers: a deeper look into their relationships’;
and the original documentary 🎥 'Sensitive: The Untold Story' featuring Alanis Morissette❗️

02/28/2021

's illustrative and written voice is certainly trending. You've no doubt seen one of these...and there is good reason why. It elicits our curious inner child, and as a baseline invites us to be gentle on ourselves. Many of his messages speak to the therapeutic process and relationship itself. So, I say, COME, take part in "A School of Unlearning"...because SO much of what we take in, and how we make meaning of it we may discover doesn't serve us, or even harms us. And, we have an opportunity to untangle, uncouple, unlearn it.

12/28/2020

During COVID, so much of the work has been about the anxiety generated by all of our collective uncertainty, and our inability to "arrive" at standard or expected milestones. Connecting to internal and external resources that help us move through it, and provide some sense of nourishment or of a nuanced movement in the stuck places has been essential. Toko-pa Turner shares a poetic perspective on both the resiliency in the "withstanding," and the potential meaning-making in the building out of our capacity to be with the uncertainty.

While others are anxious to see you arrive, I praise your vast withstanding of the uncertainty from which all meaning is born.” - Toko-pa Turner (toko-pa.com)