Ariel Lee - Holistic Therapy
healing through somatic wisdom for the nourishment 0f mind body spirit
Areas of Focus
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Maybe you’re experiencing:
- Constant worry.
- Restlessness and/or fatigue.
- Difficulty concentrating.
- Physically this may feel like constricted or accelerated breathing, tightness, shakiness, etc.
Perhaps you’d like to feel:
- A greater sense of ease, balance, and rest.
- A subtle settling of the mind, nervous system, and body.
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Maybe you’re experiencing:
- Feeling really blue /a notably low mood.
- A loss of interest in things you typically enjoy.
- Low energy or fatigue.
- Feeling like you’ve been in a slump for quite some time or like you’re perpetually stuck.
Perhaps you’d like to feel:
- A little brighter and a replenished sense of joy.
- Movement towards being unstuck, and a feeling of light at the end of the tunnel.
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Maybe you’re experiencing:
- Hypervigilance (scanning your environment for danger or potential threats).
- Feeling easily startled or often on edge.
- Intrusive thoughts & memories or avoidance/ tuning out.
- Fearfulness related to traumatic reminders or triggers, and maybe feeling unsafe about aspects of everyday life.
- Feeling frequently stuck in what happened during a traumatic experience.
Perhaps you’d like to feel:
- A greater sense of safety and empowerment in your being.
- More at ease, grounded in your body, and a widened capacity to focus more on what you’d like to thinking about or experiencing.
- The growing ability to settle your nervous system during or after stressful situations.
- Hope that you can begin to live your life more freely again.
Special Interests
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Maybe you’re navigating:
- A career change.
- Educational or creative shifts.
- Transitions in relationships.
- Reconnecting to your true self.
Perhaps you’d like to experience:
- Support as you begin to think about or embark on a new path.
- Trust in yourself and reassurance as you take steps towards something that may be unfamiliar, new, or forgotten.
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Maybe you’re experiencing:
- Chronic exhaustion and/or stress.
- Feeling totally stuck or unhappy.
- Wanting something different and feeling unsure of what to do next.
- Sick-and-tired of feeling sick-and-tired.
Perhaps you’d like to feel:
- Room to breathe, an increased sense of agency, and reconnection with resources that offer replenishment.
- Renewal, a budding sense of fulfillment, and feeling inspired again.
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Maybe you’re experiencing:
- Self-doubt in your being and your abilities despite educational or career achievements.
- Working more to overcompensate for feelings of inadequacy.
- Worry that you will be exposed as failing to live up to expectations or titles associated with your education or career.
- Systemic oppression that reinforces your internal experience.
Perhaps you’d like to feel:
- An increased sense of confidence in your abilities, skills, and achievements.
- An embodied understanding that you and your work are good enough.
- Growing ease and assurance when you or your work are under a spotlight.
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Maybe you’re navigating:
- Challenges with feeling fully apart of or accepted by aspects of your cultural heritage.
- External/ internal questioning or denial of your ancestral identity.
- Navigating familial and societal expectations and assumptions.
- Adjusting your appearance depending on your environment or the context of the setting. Perhaps you’d like to feel:
- More connected with your cultural and ancestral heritage.
- A stronger sense of cultural identity with certain parts or all aspects of your being.
- Increased confidence in your identity and expressing your unique self more fully when you want to.
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Maybe you’re navigating:
- Familial pressures to make decisions that honor the family unit (e.g. perhaps decisions around your education, career, relationships, living situation, and so forth) even if that results in you feeling unhappy.
- A sense that you can’t seem to live up to expectations, regardless of how hard you try.
- The desire to honor your being while also respecting aspects of your family dynamics.
Perhaps you’d like to feel:
- An embodied understanding that doing something that serves you does not inherently mean you are being selfish.
- A sense of acceptance in knowing that supporting your family does not have to mean consistently sacrificing your needs — and that sometimes doing what truly feels best for you can also lead to honoring your family in different ways.
- Supported when making decisions or setting boundaries with loved ones that may not feel easy or align with how things have typically been done.
- Grounded in the idea that making a decision that serves you does not negate the numerous times you have loved, honored, and supported your family.
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I can support you with harnessing the natural wisdom of your body to develop new ways of responding to your environment so you can feel less bound to the past and more aligned with the present.
This may look like exploring posture, breath, grounding exercises, movement and more, that can provide you with insights on what feels good.
I may assist you with you with reconnecting with existing somatic resources and developing new ones to feel more at home and comfortable in your being.
Your body can feel more like a powerful partner rather than a barrier or enemy.
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I can support you with reuniting with your true essence despite the challenges you have experienced in life.
This may look like tuning into to somatic elements that assist you with feeling centered, relaxed, or empowered — and shifting limiting beliefs that have internalized over time for more expansive outlooks that reflect your resilience.
This could also include connecting with your ancestral identity and/ or developing a relationship with elements of the natural world around you that can spark wonder, strength, joy, and a remembrance of a special unity that is always present if we are open to listen.
I can partner with you as you walk towards the uncertainty that can come with significant life transitions so you can feel supported within yourself and externally.
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I can assist you with nourishing what brings you joy, comfort, and ease, even if that might be hidden in shadows or may feel lost.
This may look like increasing orientations towards what is going well in your day, that week, or that month despite difficulties that may coexist— which can then be expanded somatically, emotionally, and cognitively.
I can hold a container for somatic impulses to be processed along with the painful emotions and beliefs that may be tied to them.
