Welcome to Sacred Connections
Mental Health Counseling, Book Club with Purpose, Workshops & Group Therapy
“Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.”
— Maya Angelou
Sacred Connections offers Counseling, Coaching, & Consulting
Individual, Relationship, and Family Counseling
Leadership and Professional Coaching
Parenting, Coparenting and Divorce Consultations
Counseling, coaching, and consulting, how are these different and what is best for you?
Mental Health Counseling. When you aren’t feeling like yourself or you don’t feel connected like you used to, when that voice inside keeps telling you there is something wrong, when life seems to be moving too fast, or maybe everything has become too quiet and you feel stuck, counseling can bring awareness, insight, and resolution to individuals, couples and relationships. As your guide, we go into the dark with a lantern to understand what has been covering the light to reveal a peaceful path forward once again. The question we ask together is ‘What are the barriers that are getting in the way of wellbeing?’ Counseling integrates your past and your current life with insight and clarity to bring health and wholeness - body, mind, spirit, heart.
Leadership and Professional Coaching. If counseling aims to reveal the path, coaching is pointing to the next mountaintop and figuring out the route to get there. It is looking at where you want to go, your highest intentions and goals, and integrating your values, experiences, and purpose into a clear map of the next phase of your personal and professional life. Coaching is developing a strategic plan and implementing with passion. It is specific and measurable, it includes understanding your strengths and opportunities, as well as the external barriers and threats that need to be accounted for. Coaching is taking your personal and professional life to higher ground and beyond. Coaching is right for you when life feels relatively balanced and you’re asking yourself, ‘What’s next?’
Parenting, Coparenting, and Divorce Consultation.
Parenting: Albert Einstein has been quoted to say, “We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them." This is how I think about parenting. Most of us don’t get training on how to be a parent, and even if we figure it out along the way, our children, our circumstances, and even ourselves change. It is easy to fall into patterns in our parenting styles when there is so much to consider. A fresh perspective can be helpful. Parenting consultations are designed to solve a specific problem that relates to preteens and adolescents. So often what seems like a unique problem with our child or our relationship with them is actually a universal experience relating to adolescent development, an external situation such as being a teen in a pandemic, or even as simple as learning new communication strategies that incorporate your child’s growth and maturity.
Divorce and Coparenting: Going through a divorce can be one of the most difficult transitions in a person’s life — for adults and children. It can be one traumatic event or the beginning of a cascade of life altering change that leads to physical, psychological, behavioral and emotional problems that touch every part of life. The dissolution of a marriage, especially with children, doesn’t leave a lot of time for reflection or healing. It is for this reason that I offer divorce and coparenting consultations. When you’re in the middle of a storm, it’s not the time to contemplate why you chose this trail, you just need to get yourself and family through and back to baseline. Consult sessions are scheduled for 2 hours and are focused on making sure you have what you need to get you and your family moving forward again.
Life in balance…
A cairn is made up of balanced stones; in the simplest form it is a stack of rocks with a meaning or purpose. In history, they have signified a boundary marker, a memorial, or burial site and usually built on higher ground. They can be seen along ill-defined trails to keep hikers from getting lost, enduring for decades. Cairns are sometimes built as a form of meditation. Buddhists practice balancing stones as a wish of good fortune for self or family members; each stone representing a wish or person, carefully balanced with patience and intention. Therapy can be like stacking stones along a trail to mark the path we’ve traveled even when we can’t see where we’re going; to bring deep peace, self-compassion, hope, and as a wish for wellbeing.