Hosia Keene (she/her)

Values help lead us toward solutions. ACT is a cousin to CBT and DBT, it views suffering through attachment or fusion to thoughts and feelings that aren't serving us and helps us to create openness, mindfulness, and recognize where language has created tight ties to the narratives we tell ourselves. ACT asks us to create new, sustainable relationship to thoughts, feelings, discomfort, and the self.

I view the challenges you share with me from a nervous system perspective whether you identify as having a nervous system disorder or not, this comes out of trauma informed and trauma responsive care and established research. This means I believe the body is doing its best to keep you safe and it may not be working for you anymore. We'll use the data the nervous system is giving us to find new safety. I'm also a yoga teacher and bring this to my practice.

I specialize in late(r) bloomers, this may include narrative, grief, and trauma work. It may involve divorce and nonmonogomy work, it may mean processing the impact of compulsory heteronormativity or the realities of stepping outside of a heteronormative identity. It's also a time of celebration, empowerment, and creating a deep relationship with yourself and future.

Anxiety can show up through biological, chemical, situational, or mental health changes. Together we'll work to find what you can change in your life and environment to reduce anxiety as well as build strategies to manage anxiety and panic from the inside out. I also work on creating realistic action plans around focus and attention impacted by anxiety or other concerns.

Grief and loss are a normal part of this process for most of us. Reconnecting to our values and what is most important in our lives is also normal for many of us! We'll balance the emotional and physical pain and the opportunities to join with your self, loved ones, and community as we process your changing reality from a bio-psycho-social-spiritual base. Stress is a spoon stealer and we'll work to identify what is important to you to give spoons to and where we can drop the struggle.