Say Hello to Life.
Welcome.
My name is Lori, and I know how scary reaching out to someone can be. I am here to make your counseling experience as comfortable and helpful as possible. Trauma and pain can come in many forms and from minimal to extreme. My goal is to help you not only exist, but to find your best life.
KINTSUGI.
Kintsugi
Japanese Art
Kintsugi, also known as kintsukuroi, is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery by mending the areas of breakage with lacquer dusted or mixed with powdered gold, silver, or platinum. As a philosophy, it treats breakage and repair as part of the history of an object, rather than something to disguise.
The art of therapy is similar.
As humans, we were not designed to be perfect. Throughout life, we do our best and make decisions in the moment with what we know. Along the way, we get cracked, bruised, and sometimes fall completely apart. Even without intention, we can break others as they will often break us.
In counseling, talking about our experiences of pain & hurt can slowly join those parts back together, but this time in healthy ways that help us grow. Just as mixing gold into fine cracks of pottery, the process of sharing pain with a professional helper not only mends our breaks but adds understanding, empowerment, and strength to our foundation through the beauty of Connection. Our scars of Gold remain to show others how they too can gather pieces of the past to create a form that once had fallen, yet chose not to remain, but instead, to Rise.
W E L C O M E.
