John Moletress (they/them)

Gestalt therapy is a humanistic and whole-bodied modality that centers the client's unique experience of the world. It is closely related to mindfulness in that present-moment awareness of sensations, feelings, and thoughts are central to healing. Additionally, Gestalt highlights playfulness and relationality in the therapeutic process.

Ecotherapy is nature-based therapy. It considers the client's relationship with the environment, plants, animals, and the whole more-than-human world as central to the healing process. Any number of nature-based activities from taking therapy outdoors (local parks and green spaces) to at-home plant-tending comprise ecotherapy. Ecotherapy is social justice-oriented in that it considers systems of oppression and access.

Somatic therapy is whole-bodied focused. Different than Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT), it's a person-centered approach which views trauma, anxiety, depression, stress, and any number of symptoms through how they arise, effect, and are located within the body. Somatic therapy is uniquely poised to assist clients with self-regulation.

I've spent the last year working with LGBTQ+ clients at a queer and trans-affirming non-profit mental health clinic. I've worked with transgender clients navigating medical and surgical-affirming treatment, consensual non-monogamous relationships, neurodivergency, bullying, and exploring gender expression and identity.

Somatic therapy is a unique modality to explore PTSD, in that it centers the whole-bodied experience of the client in treatment. LGBTQ+ clients experience oppression, discrimination, violence, attachment wounding, and caregivers who might have not been good enough. Working with the client to develop their strengths in nervous system self-regulation and present-moment awareness is key to my work.

Through a body-centered, relational approach, I work with clients to conceptualize and experience spaciousness, responsibility, and present-moment awareness of their nervous system and the things causing their anxiety. We will work together to build resiliency, and understand negative and intrusive thoughts, hopefully recovering our sense of freedom.