Sometimes we don't even know what we are thinking or feeling until we give ourselves a chance... I have some sliding scale fee spots available.
Talking with someone trained to listen can make all the difference in helping you figure out your life. I've been a life student and PhD potential doing a variety of research projects on such topics as attention and memory, sexuality, hypnosis, and how mental health status affects job applications. I worked with charter school students, elderly people with disabilities, and inmates within the Wisc
onsin Green Lake Correctional System. I was a member in our local chapter of Psi Chi, the International Honor Society in Psychology, which included serving in executive positions and fundraising for the Alzheimer's Association and a local group that worked with victims of domestic abuse. During my senior year, I underwent a personal journey of self-discovery in a depth psychological fashion, reading books by Carl Jung and other deep thinkers. After a year or so away from school, I moved to San Francisco to pursue a Master's in Integral Counseling Psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS). I have completed that degree and a year of practicum at one of our school clinics, Golden Gate Integral Counseling Center. I'm accepting clients, including individuals, couples, families, kids and groups. I'm available in person in San Francisco, or by video to anyone in California. Please give me a call or text to see if I can be of service: 1(920) 319-5020
04/12/2025
Stop “trying” to bloom faster or slower than you are ready.
We live in a world that glorifies speed—quick results, instant clarity, fast transformations. I’m guilty too. I always wanted to be older than I was… but now I’m learning otherwise.
Our Mother Earth teaches us a different rhythm, doesn’t she. 🌿✨
A river doesn’t need to be pushed to keep flowing. A flower doesn’t bloom by force. Growth happens in its own time, in its own way. Starting in your imagination.
What if you trusted your unfolding just as it is? What if you allowed yourself to be in the process without needing to control every step? What if you trusted yourself and life to guide the way.
Everything is happening in perfect timing 💛
03/27/2025
02/13/2025
Protection looks good on you, babe. 😉 This , we’re here to celebrate the power of wrapping it up! Did you know condoms are 98% effective at preventing STIs when used correctly? Pair them with PrEP, and you’ve got a dynamic duo that keeps you protected and feeling confident.
Safe s*x isn’t just smart—it’s s*xy. Whether it’s a spicy one-night rendezvous or a steamy love affair, make sure you’re covered. Trust us, the right protection only adds to the excitement. 😏
Ready to keep it s*xy and safe? Wrap it up and own your pleasure. 🖤 📷: Kollin Benson/Kollin Benson Photography
12/04/2024
Fundraiser!
11/24/2024
Personal blog with a collection of topics.
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07/06/2024
"I wouldn't recommend the pursuit of consciousness to anyone. I would not have chosen it for myself. I didn't. It chose me. If it hasn't called your number yet, don't worry. It will, eventually.
It will draft you from your small life and make impossible demands. You will say, “No.” You will say, “It can't be done.” You will say, "I don't want to," and it will laugh at your naivety.
It will speak to you in symbols, a language you don’t know. It will shake the stable earth. It will break your mirrors and douse your life with gasoline. It will light your spirit on fire. You will die and give birth to yourself in the same instant, again and again.
You will remember that Shakespeare was right: all the world IS a stage. You will wonder why you've been playing so small a part. For an instant you will be ecstatic. You will attempt to embrace your epic proportions and then the phone will ring and you will collapse back into your tiny character, hopelessly.
You will question your sanity. Constantly. You will conclude that you are crazy. Then, correct. Then, crazy. Then, brilliant. Then crazy....
You will remember you are God, experiencing. Then you will remember you are Sally or Jane or Joe: weeping, screaming, slaving. You will ask yourself again, if you are delusional. You will wonder why God has bad credit, narcissistic relationships, or a desk job she hates.
You'll wonder what kind of cruel joke this world is, and yearn for a home you can only remember by feel: fuzzy, glowing golden, drenched in light. You'll find gratitude for your suffering. You will also realize that suffering has no value. Out of your wailing, flailing despair you will realize that your love has been inverted.
You will see that you contain all opposites and spend many years trying to figure out which one is true, and s***f out the one you believe to be a lie. You will try to murder yourself, and fail. You will change your mind and reverse your strategy. And again. This tactic is a pendulum shaped like an axe that swings wild and wide. This is how you will die the death of a thousand cuts.
When you grow bored of bleeding out you will decide you are great enough to contain all opposites. You will attempt to love them, equally. But you won’t. You will conclude that good and evil is an opinion. You will begin to question how your opinions have developed. You will keep some, discard others.
You will reason that if the same intelligence that holds the cosmos together, that keeps the sun at perfect distance, that spins the earth, is present in all things then maybe, just maybe, even this is somehow perfect: its horror and its ecstasy.
Don’t buy the fairy tales written by wealthy gurus recycling from each other. They have too much to gain from selling you something that cannot be owned. If you buy it, all you will get for your trouble is a broken heart. It will make you feel you are wrongly put together- broken-because your own journey is not like the escalator ride up the mountainside that they’ve promised you. Not even with all your meditation, yoga, or group chanting.
The art of becoming conscious is like any other art: you must find your medium, your talent, and your unique approach to expressing the themes that move and torment you the most. Finally, you must grow the presence and courage to claim your impossible dream. Doing this will take mastery over the forces of density and duality. Mastery over your many faces, the thoughts that burn you at the stake, your own terror.
No. I wouldn’t recommend the pursuit of consciousness to anybody, but should you find yourself pursued, there are a few things you should remember:
You can’t outrun it because even though it may announce your number through seemingly external circumstances, the motor of consciousness is inside you and it will pull every curtain in your life down if you refuse to submit.
There is no map, so don’t buy yours secondhand. The gurus can’t save you. The career can’t save you. The relationship can’t save you. You will only find your way one step at a time. Listen to others, if you want, and learn, but don’t make the mistake of thinking they know the way home. If they did, they would be there by now.
And while we’re at it, there is no “there.” You don’t know who you are. Where you’ve come from is unknown. Where you’re going is mysterious. What your soul commands of you can only be found within you. No one else knows what you are here to do. And for now, here is all there is."~
~Alison Nappi Author
06/28/2024
04/27/2024
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I’m in the middle of a mission to bring nature back to the city of San Francisco. I’m hiking into the canyon of the Glen Park neighborhood with friends and clients to restore health and vitality to individuals and our community, and decrease the technological noise that so often fills our lives. From an evolutionary perspective, this connection to nature was implicit. In the modern world, some societies lose touch with the natural world, while there exist cultures for which this ecotherapy is still traditional.
As summarized by Fauver (2018), “Spending time with trees and opening to your intuition are integral parts of a Japanese practice called forest bathing (shinrin-yoku). Forest bathing involves quietly relaxing under the trees or casually walking through them, which research has found to provide a wide range of health benefits” (p. 6). Among the evidence for this is work by Lee et al. (2011), in which young japanese male subjects participated in a 3 day, 2 night nature-based experiment.
The study used physiological and psychological measures, including heart rate variability analysis, that indicated the forest environment significantly increased parasympathetic nervous system activity, the rest and digest side of the autonomic nervous system, and significantly suppressed sympathetic, fight or flight activity of participants compared with the urban environment. This could be particularly helpful for anyone with a dysregulated nervous system, especially including those with such experiences as hypervigilance from trauma.
Levels of salivary cortisol, the stress hormone, and pulse rate decreased significantly in the forest setting compared with the city mileu. In psychological tests, forest bathing significantly increased scores of positive feelings and significantly decreased scores of negative feelings. The researchers did note a smaller sample size, which furthers the need for more investigation and data collection. Thankfully some studies have looked at other populations, including middle aged and elderly individuals (Yu et al., 2017), middle aged females (Ochiai et al., 2015a), middle aged males (Ochiai et al., 2015b), and patients with fibromyalgia (Secundino et al., 2015).
On that note, my objective is to take this empirical evidence and encourage my clients with anxiety, depression and other mood disorders to get back to mother earth and the trees, to listen to their own inner wisdom, intuition and higher self, and find relief from their mental and emotional maladies, lifestyle ills of the modern age.
