Integrative Health at Silver Lake Counseling

​We live in a time of extraordinary alienation that has left many of us depressed, lonely, and existentially anxious. We desire more meaningful relationships, life purpose, and spiritual fulfillment yet struggle to find them. If you feel this way, you’re not crazy and you’re not alone. As a somatic-spiritual counselor, I help people make sense of these feelings and find paths to greater agency and possibility. Our culture actively creates disconnection - from community, from the natural world around us, from our own selves, and from a sense of the sacred. Devoid of these essential human needs, it’s no wonder people are desperately searching for meaning and belonging. However, our sense of alienation as modern people has a concrete source, and thus actual solutions. This source traces back to a shift from the communal, earth-based villages we all used to live in, to a new trajectory set by early civilization that began rejecting the way of nature, a communal framework for society, and the interconnectedness of life. The effects of these distortions live in our minds and bodies making us insecure, individualistic, armored, unnatural, and like the hungry ghosts described in Buddhism, endlessly consuming to fill longings that are never satisfied. But there is hope. Even if we can’t change our culture, we can live more naturally within it, and that begins with internal transformation. I’m here to help with that process. Together, we’ll disentangle the isolating ways we’ve been shaped to think, feel, and act, and begin uncovering your more authentic, grounded, and interconnected self. As we move into personal wholeness, we become aligned with a story bigger than ourself and life begins to unfold.