Transpersonal Therapists in Ann Arbor, MI

I am delighted to assist you in becoming whole and living a joyous life that is full of emotional freedom and possibility. The decision to examine your life in order to heal and grow is a courageous act, and not a sign of weakness. I am excited and grateful that my life’s work has been dedicated to this process. I work with people to overcome anxiety, depression, and self-defeating behavior patterns. Freedom from self-imposed limitations can enhance and enrich your life and relationships. I have the training and experience to help you restore mental, emotional, and spiritual balance.

Please book a free consultation at vanderlcsw.com. The cave you fear to enter, holds the treasure you seek. Please allow me to be a fellow traveler on your journey into the unknown parts of yourself. I'll ask for a deep commitment from you to participate in this process of self-discovery and self-healing. I believe that everyday stress has roots in your past. It is important for us to bravely move into those spaces when you are ready. Your sense of safety is vital in this process and we will develop our therapeutic alliance so you feel grounded beforehand. With deep trust for one another, we can bring about lasting transformations.

I am excited to partner with you in this phase of your journey. My goal as your therapist is to walk alongside you as you discover your own voice, passions and healing. I believe you have everything you need within you to cope. Through an eclectic approach of attachment theory, CBT, transpersonal theory, internal family systems and mindfulness practices, we will explore the experiences that led you to therapy. There are many reasons to seek therapy- unfulfilling relationships, trouble with self-image, difficult family dynamics, life transitions, traumatic experiences or loss, and all can be explored in a supported setting.

Everyone has a need to feel healthy and whole, with a sense of purpose, pleasure and renewal in your life. My approach uses your strengths to help you get in touch with your own inner resources so you can better manage stress, trauma and change in your life with creativity and courage. I have a mind, body, spiritual approach to healing that can help. Anxiety, depression, loss of motivation, a crisis in identity, feelings of low self worth, are all issues that can be transformed into feelings of self assurance and clarity about your life's direction.

I have helped clients rise above life challenges; complicated by depression and anxiety, low self esteem, lack of motivation, anger, sexual abuse, violence, grief, . I do not discriminate on person or issue and believe we have one life to find happiness, joy, companionship and love. Ask yourself right now, "Do I want to live the next year of my life the way I have lived this last year?" If your answer is no, don't wait another day to make a change. I am experienced and professional and I'll take your call.

With mindfulness- and compassion-based therapy, I support clients through grief & loss, relationship issues, healing from trauma, and searching for meaning & purpose. So many of the issues that bring people to therapy are natural responses to the challenges we face as human beings. Through the process of therapy, we bring curiosity and compassion to our inner experience; and in the safety of a non-judgmental space, we explore options for understanding and growth.

It’s an honor to come alongside a soul in their journey through life’s challenges and transitions. I approach my work with others by highlighting strengths, assessing challenges, and finding areas where you can gain more personal empowerment and freedom to pursue your goals. I would love the opportunity to support you as you discover new ways to cope, overcome, and align with your authentic expression in order to live a life of fulfillment and peace.

I invite you to a safe and compassionate space to untangle and release difficulties that interfere with your quality or functioning in life. Taking a look at hurts can help normalize and clarify confusing or negative behavior, thoughts, and emotions to integrate past experiences. Embodiment, mindfulness, and somatic experiential practices lead you to gain physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual health. These practical techniques, along with education, and therapeutic processing will guide you along your path to integrated health and the resilience needed to manage the most stressful circumstances. You become your own best friend.

We are all called to evolve beyond our survival level strategies designed to cope with wounding family systems, lineages and social systems. It is possible to integrate the legacy of trauma we have inherited and thrive in this lifetime. We are collectively facing monumental global challenges, socially, politically and environmentally, that amplifies this legacy, and hastens the call for us to cultivate greater capacity to stay present, grounded and lovingly engaged. Returning to wholeness requires reorienting towards mobilizing our rich inner and outer resources, shifting from generating suffering to unlocking liberation.

Being in a dark place can be scary and it can be even scarier feeling hopeless, lost and as if there isn't light at the end of the tunnel. I have experience working with individual's suffering from severe emotional issues, unstable relationships, unstable sense of self and instability in behavior. Often, clients come to me looking for ways to better understand themselves, assistance navigating through life and in search for a way to end their suffering. After all, we all want to experience joy in this world; having skills to manage the inevitable difficulties of life will aid us in experiencing joy while helping us to find peace.

You can learn to raise yourself...to enhance the positive aspects of life and build resilience in the face of adversity. The therapeutic relationship is tool to gain self knowledge, acceptance and access to your own wisdom. Therapy does not take difficulties in life away. Instead, you change your relationship to them. You learn the difference between the kind of suffering that is natural and unavoidable from the kind of suffering that is self inflicted. With this growing awareness inner strength and respect for yourself grows. Little by little you uproot destructive patterns and come back to life.

I have over fifty years of providing a complete range of psychological services including neuropsychological evaluations, forensic evaluations, and treatment with psychotherapy and biofeedback. I employ a comprehensive program to assist children, adolescents, and adults with autism, depression, anxiety, AD(H)D, and concussions or traumatic brain injury. I am the only Fully Licensed PhD psychologist in Michigan who combines psychotherapy, neurofeedback, and QEEG-guided neurofeedback protocol development by a Board Certified Neurologist (Dr. Walker at www. neurotherapydallas.com) from the data bases at www.appliedneuroscience.com.

Limited space! For over 20 years I have loved helping people with a vast array of emotional issues. I use my understanding of past and current life situations, as well as what I see happening within the therapeutic relationship, to help my patients achieve their goal. I enjoy working with young adults, teen and adults with anxiety, mood disorders, relationship issues, and trauma. I also work with men and women going through the divorce and custody process. I have dealt extensively with parental alienation. I help fix families. I’m the mom of 4 amazing adult children, an avid reader, a crime show addict and mom to my fur baby, Huey.

Welcome! I believe that one of the essential ingredients of change and transformative psychotherapy is the relationship between the individual and the therapist. Feeling understood and comfortable not only helps reduce one's symptoms, encouraging self-acceptance, but also leads toward deeper work which promotes lasting change and a deeper experience of one's unique self.

There are times when life’s challenges can feel harder to deal with than others, and when this happens, you may need additional help. I have a developmental, client-centered, strengths-based approach to the therapy process. So whether you are brand new to therapy or very experienced with it, I view my role as your therapist as someone who can support you along your unique healing journey by helping you to better understand and, when needed, make peace with your story while also working on practical coping skills to help daily life feel more manageable.

Are your surviving or thriving? Enhancing levels of insight on cognitive reform are pre-requisites to detachment from un-necessary suffering. Change is often sabotaged despite desire for growth due to uninterrupted Subconscious Cognitive Loops. In our meetings, we will assess various dimensions of your current experiences and demonstrate techniques that can enhance psychological flexibility.

Dr. Chang, founder of Therapy Lab and TL Kids, has provided science-based psychological treatment since 2008. Using evidence-based treatments and a compassionate approach, she offers expertise based on a decade of experience at prestigious research-oriented psychology programs, including UCLA and NYU's Child Study Center, with degrees from Princeton University and The University of Georgia.

We're not trapped by our circumstances; we're trapped by our stories. Domenic Tamborriello, LMSW, has over 30 years experience working with Individuals, Couples, and Groups. He believes in seeing the very highest and best in each person and helping them lay claim to every part of themselves. Free of the guilt and shame of old stories, we can move forward in our lives with inner and outer peace to help us connect to our legitmate power, untapped passion, and inspiring possibilities.