About Rebecca's Practice
Wounding and Healing: Finding A Way Forward
In my experience, both in my personal life and as a professional who has worked in mental health for over three decades, some injuries are too traumatic to simply "get over." In therapy I create a safe and compassionate space so you can address unhealed wounds and access the part of you that knows how to heal, so that resilience and a way forward can be found, and self-esteem and self-confidence built. My experiential and embodied approach to psychotherapy can help you unearth the roots of inner conflict, discover inner reservoirs of wisdom, and heal unresolved trauma and emotional wounding. Beyond traditional therapy modalities, I bring knowledge and skills from more than 40 years teaching and practicing Reiki, an ancient Japanese energy-based healing art and work with the chakras, the body's physical and emotional energy centers.
Diversity
My sensitivity to the issues clients bring whose lives have been or are affected by subtle or overt prejudice is informed by my experiences of parenting my biracial children and by my own healing of my experiences of abuse as a woman. For clients who have been hurt by bias against their race, ethnicity, gender or sexual orientation, therapy helps you heal wounds to your sense of self and reclaim your own identity.
Cultivating Creativity
Working with graduate students on writing projects, I have had the opportunity to apply therapeutic skills to accessing creativity and moving through the issues that block the flow of ideas. In addition to helping authors and artists, this work can help individuals who are moving into a new stage of life draw creative inspiration and guidance from within themselves.
Couples
My work with couples draws on experiential exercises that help couples rebuild trust and shift from positions of defensiveness or attack, hurt or frustration, to a place of mutual understanding and increased closeness. As we address the challenges you bring to the couples setting, you and your partner can learn and practice tools that lead to deeper understanding of yourselves and each other, better communication and a relationship that helps you thrive amid the stresses of life.
Wilderness Therapy
Wilderness therapy provides a supported opportunity to discern the difference between perceived and real limits, moving through fear and self-judgment into self-respect and self-care rooted in the on-the-ground experience of self-acceptance, compassion and self-worth. In the outer challenges we encounter, we find ourselves moved and supported by that which is indestructible and authentic in us. In wilderness practices, drawing on my therapeutic skills and training in shamanism and wilderness rites of passage, I hold a safe and supportive space for the process of personal growth and have been witness to transformations in
myself and in others at every level -- mind, heart, soul, and body.
In my experience, both in my personal life and as a professional who has worked in mental health for over three decades, some injuries are too traumatic to simply "get over." In therapy I create a safe and compassionate space so you can address unhealed wounds and access the part of you that knows how to heal, so that resilience and a way forward can be found, and self-esteem and self-confidence built. My experiential and embodied approach to psychotherapy can help you unearth the roots of inner conflict, discover inner reservoirs of wisdom, and heal unresolved trauma and emotional wounding. Beyond traditional therapy modalities, I bring knowledge and skills from more than 40 years teaching and practicing Reiki, an ancient Japanese energy-based healing art and work with the chakras, the body's physical and emotional energy centers.
Diversity
My sensitivity to the issues clients bring whose lives have been or are affected by subtle or overt prejudice is informed by my experiences of parenting my biracial children and by my own healing of my experiences of abuse as a woman. For clients who have been hurt by bias against their race, ethnicity, gender or sexual orientation, therapy helps you heal wounds to your sense of self and reclaim your own identity.
Cultivating Creativity
Working with graduate students on writing projects, I have had the opportunity to apply therapeutic skills to accessing creativity and moving through the issues that block the flow of ideas. In addition to helping authors and artists, this work can help individuals who are moving into a new stage of life draw creative inspiration and guidance from within themselves.
Couples
My work with couples draws on experiential exercises that help couples rebuild trust and shift from positions of defensiveness or attack, hurt or frustration, to a place of mutual understanding and increased closeness. As we address the challenges you bring to the couples setting, you and your partner can learn and practice tools that lead to deeper understanding of yourselves and each other, better communication and a relationship that helps you thrive amid the stresses of life.
Wilderness Therapy
Wilderness therapy provides a supported opportunity to discern the difference between perceived and real limits, moving through fear and self-judgment into self-respect and self-care rooted in the on-the-ground experience of self-acceptance, compassion and self-worth. In the outer challenges we encounter, we find ourselves moved and supported by that which is indestructible and authentic in us. In wilderness practices, drawing on my therapeutic skills and training in shamanism and wilderness rites of passage, I hold a safe and supportive space for the process of personal growth and have been witness to transformations in
myself and in others at every level -- mind, heart, soul, and body.
Rebecca Pottenger, M.A., Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist
5150 North 6th Street, Suite 115, Fresno, CA 93710
916.751.9000
writingpottenger@gmail.cm
5150 North 6th Street, Suite 115, Fresno, CA 93710
916.751.9000
writingpottenger@gmail.cm
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