Renee Klyczek Nordstrom (she/her)

My experience associated with healing from historical abuse and trauma includes facilitating education for groups, workshops, as well as, individual and group counseling in outpatient and residential treatment facilities. I use multiple formats for assisting individuals to heal including art therapy, talk therapy, and most importantly, I will focus on your strengths and abilities to foster the growth and change you are seeking.

From generalized anxiety and worry to panic attacks my approach begins with acknowledging and building on your wisdom and strengths while working with any barriers to your success. Mindfulness and breath work, art therapy, and learning how the presence of anxiety helps us to navigate our life processes are tools to explore and practice in assisting you to live the life you envision.

From generalized anxiety and worry to panic attacks my approach begins with acknowledging and building on your wisdom and strengths while working with any barriers to your success. Bringing together body, mind, and spirit the incorporation of mindfulness and breath work, art therapy, and learning how the presence of anxiety helps us to navigate our life processes are tools to explore and practice in assisting you to live the life you envision.

From mild depression to debilitating depression we will focus on your strengths and coping mechanisms. Bringing together body, mind, and spirit the incorporation of talk therapy, mindfulness practices, art therapy for clarification and problem solving, learning, compassion, and change processes all assist you in creating a pathway to the life you want to live.

Art therapy is for everyone because every individual has intuitive creativity even if you feel you've never tapped into it! No skills needed! Using art therapy provides our very intellectually focused culture and brain an additional perspective on ourself and the world around us. It gives us the opportunity for thinking outside the box. Engaging in art therapy connects our body and mind, and our creative spirit.

I love the premise of Internal Family Systems which believes you are whole and complete no matter what has transpired in your life or whether you are able to see/acknowledge that wholeness. It allows for and helps you to find compassion for the parts of you who developed survival strategies in response to life experiences. Internal Family Systems provides a map to assist you in integrating all of you and the ability to lead from the best places in yourself.

Healing from trauma can be a frightening prospect. Providing you with a safe and non judgmental environment is the starting place. Paying attention to your timing and wisdom, your strengths, your intrinsic creativity and intuition will help create a space for you to explore and build a life you envision. I will provide information, facilitate art therapy and body based strategies. I will be there beside you as you navigate your healing journey.