Healing is natural
Find out how with…
Wild Grace Therapy
Blossom into a life worth living!
Blossom into a life worth living!
Hi, I am Relani!
I am a Queer, neurodivergent, IFS-informed EMDR psychotherapist who helps people tap into the natural healing power of the brain.
If you have always felt different, I hold a safe space for you to be seen and understood. If you have tried talk therapy without the success you had hoped for, EMDR and IFS may be for you.
I specialize in working with adult survivors of childhood trauma and neurodivergent people. I have been working in community mental health for many years and am now offering EMDR and IFS treatment online as a private therapist in New York State and Vermont.
Discover the Power of Experiential Healing
Move from talking about what needs to change to experiencing deep and lasting healing in session with EMDR, IFS, and IFS-Informed EMDR.
EMDR and IFS are both non-pathologizing approaches to healing that involve a different mode of action in the brain than CBT or other talk therapies. Rather than developing a competing neural network to compete with the power of negative thoughts, emotions, and behaviors; EMDR and IFS facilitate a re-wiring of the negative neural networks, leading to desensitization of triggers through memory reconsolidation and an internal unburdening of negative thoughts, emotions, and body sensations.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing - EMDR
EMDR reprocessing for single event traumas to effectively be reprocessed utilizing Bilateral Stimulation to activate the brain’s natural Adaptive Information Processing capabilities to desensitize triggers and put the past in the past.
Internal Family Systems and IFS-informed EMDR
The most gentle and powerful internal recalibration that combines the effectiveness of EMDR bilateral stimulation to enhance the unburdening and relational healing of IFS. This is especially good for Attachment Trauma or Complex Trauma.
Tap into your natural wisdom
Healing is natural, but it can feel blocked by fear of the unknown that change brings. I help you access your inner wisdom and unlock the natural healing process in a safe and secure way.
In the wilderness of the healing process, we can feel alone and overwhelmed and afraid of the power and intensity of what we feel, what wants to be released. In the safe and structured format of EMDR, you can tap into your strengths and tap into the wisdom of the parts of you, your body and brain, that know how to heal but are stuck.
The hardest part is getting out of our own way. We are used to being in conscious control of everything, and when we aren’t, it’s scary. But, what we don’t realize is if we are only using the conscious part of our brain, we are limiting the depth of the total information we hold and which needs to be Rewired.
When we allow a natural process to unfold, trust that our brain and body know how to heal if you let them, it happens as naturally as water flowing in a stream or birds flying in graceful murmurations.
With the back and forth, rhythmic stimulation of right and left sides of the brain, we loosen that tight neural knot that formed with our negative past experiences, and once again the energy and information that formed it is digested, rearranged, and released, returning the natural flow of our consciousness and leaving us feeling unburdened, lighter, and free.