Wendy Dingee (she/her)

I am a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor, Clinical Alcohol and Drug Counselor, Clinical Alcohol and Drug Counselor Supervisor, National Certified Counselor, Certified Integrative Body Psychotherapy Practitioner and Teacher, and Board Certified Coach. I am certified in the Rosenberg system of Integrative Body Psychotherapy (IBP) as a practitioner and teacher. IBP is a philosophy of psychotherapy that affirms the inseparability of mind, body, and spirit in the human experience, and offers a framework for working with painful, limiting patterns on a body level in addition to psychological/verbal. I utilize EMDR, polyvagal theory and mindfulness-based, humanistic, existential, coaching elements. All of this means I can help you connect with the inherent wholeness and aliveness that is the truth of who you are and always has been. I can help you live more from that place and less from old programming that is no longer serving you.

Every single so-called "diagnosis" that exists in mental health is, in my view, simply an adaptation of the nervous system, brain, and body in response to a neuroception of threat that has occurred at some point in a person's development. Since we know that the brain and nervous system develop throughout life in response to environment (neuroplasticity), and we are highly adaptive creatures, it only makes sense that our responses are attempts to take care of ourselves in one way or another. When those mechanisms are operating below the line of conscious awareness, we can become stuck in rigid patterns that are no longer serving us. Seeing these patterns through a lens of acceptance allows us to create more options and freedom than looking at these patterns as illness or defects that need to be "cured." No one is "broken" or "beyond help" and what we do is separate from who we are.