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HEALING + WELLNESS COACHING
What is healing + wellness coaching?
Coaching is as different as the provider offering the service. Teresa brings her background in traumatology (trauma care and study) as well as her background engaging integrative healing methods which engage mind, body and spirit (where useful) to each session. This coaching support is tailored to the needs, presenting questions, and life issues which each person brings into the session space. A coaching session can help the client assess their current life circumstances, needs and issues and formulate a plan of action around a particular presenting issue.
Is coaching the same as psychotherapy or mental health care?
No. Psychotherapy and mental health care is a service provided for clients within the state of their residence with a licenced mental health clinician and addresses presenting life issues, but also works with clients around deeper issues of complex trauma, mental health issues, as well as emotional crisis.
What are the benefits of healing + wellness coaching?
Healing + Wellness Coaching can provide support to clients throughout the country and the world through the capacity of virtual communication. Teresa's integrative approach to wellness also allows for an engagement of embodied and energy healing practices and tools, as well as meditative and guided relaxation practices to be integrated alongside deep listening and collaborative reflection on a client's current life issues, to build solutions and approaches to current circumstances together.
SPIRIT CARE COACHING
What kind of organizations do you offer consulting to?
Teresa offers consulting services to organizations, businesses and institutions large and small. This can include a private small business, a larger business or academic institution and organizations such as foundations and nonprofits. Each service and area of focus is tailored to the need of each organization with which she is consulting.
What if I just have a question or I want to discuss on whether or not we might be compatible to work together?
If it is a brief question you can send an intial email via Teresa's contact form. That said, if it is something that would take longer than a 10-15 minute dialogue please do schedule for one of the session times most appropriate for your needs (a 30-min or 50-min call).
CREATIVE ARTS COACHING
What is creative arts coaching?
Creative Arts Coaching is a coaching practice specifically centering and oriented towards supporting and lifting up the creative process of artists across disciplines. This kind of coaching offers space for creatives to navigate, in companionship, their own creative process, their creative life and overall life balance, and stressors that arise through and witihin the creative process.
What kind of creative artists does Teresa work with in this coaching process?
Teresa serves clients across creative disciples including actors, playwrites, photographers, graphic designers, painters, sculptures, multimedia artists, filmmakers, authors across disciples, musicians and beyond. As far and wide as a client defines their own creative lineage or practice is as far as this form of coaching can reach.
Would Teresa define herself as a creative artist?
She would, and this is why she also has such a heart for artists. She was a hobbiest sketch artist and photographer in her youth, and began writing her first book in elementary school (to very little outcome). She has (although little known fact) designed many of her own tattoos, is a bit of a current hobbiest at graphic design and website design (creating all her own logos and websites), and she is the author of three creative nonfiction books. She finds a beloved community amid other artists and loves being able to serve the community in this way.
TAROT CARD READINGS
What is the point of tarot card reading?
Tarot, like a prayer or meditation practice, is what you bring to it. For some it is merely a practice for fun - something to do as entertainment alone. For others it is a space of reflecting on what is going on in their current life with more clarity. It can also be approached like a prayer practice - a meditation on the present moment and possible questions that are arising in you, where you can input the cards' story alongside your own intuition on a certain issue.
Is tarot a practice of one specific spiritual lineage?
Tarot, and practices like it (reading runes, stones, crystals, tea leaves) span across the landscape and lineages of human history. In that way it carries a long lineage with no one specific origin story. The specific practice we have contemporarily named "tarot" likely originated in 1400's Italy, but versions of it are traced back to ancient Egypt and Kabbalistic lineages as well. Again, many parallel practices of meditating, praying and reflecting on objects, cards and wisdom tools have crossed continent and human history.
My religious/spiritual tradition says tarot is "bad" or "evil". What does that mean?
Throughout history there has been fear of what has been unknown. Everything from villifying natural medicine professionals in the middle ages and burning them as witches, to calling tarot and practitioners "evil" is a function of a kind of ignorance born of fear.
ORGANIZATIONAL CONSULTING
What kind of organizations do you offer consulting to?
Teresa offers consulting services to organizations, businesses and institutions large and small. This can include a private small business, a larger business or academic institution and organizations such as foundations and nonprofits. Each service and area of focus is tailored to the need of each organization with which she is consulting.
What if I just have a question or I want to discuss on whether or not we might be compatible to work together?
If it is a brief question you can send an intial email via Teresa's contact form. That said, if it is something that would take longer than a 10-15 minute dialogue please do schedule for one of the session times most appropriate for your needs (a 30-min or 50-min call).
HEALING PRACTITIONER MENTORSHIP
What is healing practitioner mentorship?
Healing Practitioner Mentorship provides support, grounding and resources (through tools and practices) to professionals across the mind, body, spirit health and wellness fields. Teresa acknowledges, and knows from her own experience as a clinical social worker and trauma therapist for the last 15 years, how taxing and exhausting healing care professions can be. While you can love the work it is also possible to feel burnt out and needing support and restoration along the lifelong path of this work - to sustain for the long run. This mentorship offers space for healing care providers at any point in their career in their field that are seeking space of support and restoration.
Who is it for? What kind of professionals?
This mentorship is available to and serves a variety of healing professions. Teresa seeks to support the nurturing, growth and grounding of professionals across fields of practice who do the hard work every day to support individuals and communities who are hurt and seeking healing. This includes (but is not limited to): mental healthcare professionals, wellness coaches, holistic healing professionals, embodied care and yoga professionals, naturopathic and acupuncture professionals, reiki professionals, medical professionals, and those in the frontlines crisis and emergency response professions.
Does this mentorship meet the criteria for my licensure supervision in my state?
It does not. While there are many ways in which this mentorship process provides support for healing care professionals in a variety of fields at various stages of their career it does not meet criteria for clinical licensure supervision in a specific field of practice. Due to the regulations which are state based and field of practice based it is necessary for you to seek licensure supervision from a professional in your field of practice who is already licensed in the state in which you practice.