Cooper Stodden - Village Witch Therapy (they/them)

Most of my clients are ADHDers, and many note that nature-based sessions enhance their ability to focus and be present. The spacious and grounding context of the forest on the lake can support your capacity to engage with and heal internal experiences that may feel overwhelming in other settings—all while offering the added mental health benefits that come naturally from spending an hour outside.

To help you access the freedom and connection that is your birthright, I integrate Nature-Based Therapy with Treating Internalized Oppression framework, Internal Family Systems Therapy, Somatics, Witchcraft, Family Systems Therapy, Brainspotting, Play Therapy, and Polyvagal Therapy. Therapy with me is trauma-informed, anti-racist, queer/trans-affirming, neurodivergent-affirming, fat/body positive, anti-ableist, anti-oppressive, magical, and rooted in personal and collective liberation.

Treating Internalized Oppression is the framework I use to map therapy. I understand that oppression is trauma & that the ways we internalize oppression causes suffering in our lives, bodies & communities. I also bring my training in Family Systems Therapy and my experience with ancestral lineage healing practices to use a systemic lens to help you understand and heal from intergenerational patterns, traumas, and burdens passed down through your family lines.

Brainspotting is a powerful but gentle trauma healing therapy I use to help you heal from past traumas with the deep somatic wisdom your body holds about healing. Brainspotting works by identifying, processing, and releasing core neurophysiological sources of emotional/body pain, trauma, dissociation, and a variety of other challenging symptoms that are typically out of reach of your conscious mind and its cognitive and language capacity.

My practice is rooted in the wisdom of Internal Family Systems Therapy, which teaches us to understand our thoughts, emotions, behaviors, and feelings as a response to systemic wounding & protection rather than as the result of pathology. We work within your inner world by honoring & collaborating with your body’s protective system rather than fighting or overriding it. IFS invites the practices of deep witnessing, trust-building, nurturing, and self-attunement to help us feel whole & free.

Nature-Based Therapy embraces the healing power of your connection with the more-than-human world. My work takes place in sbəqʷábs (Seward Park), where the vibrant, living ecosystem co-holds the therapeutic process. The spacious and grounding context of the forest on the lake can support your capacity to engage with and heal internal experiences that may feel overwhelming in other settings—all while offering the added mental health benefits that come naturally from spending an hour outside.