Zane Rosen (He/They)

With an active license of being an alcohol and drug counselor, I wanted to support individuals who struggle with any iteration of substance use or behaviors that are impacting their life in ways. I truly believe that the concept of addiction is a coping skill, and always ask, "What purpose is it serving or protecting you?" to truly understand the underlying causes and more. An area that can be plauged with puritanical values, stigma, and shame, I approach with harm reduction and non-judgement.

As an AuDHD therapist myself, I have been very intentional about learning about ADHD to both understand and support myself, but to provide care for others as I found it very challenging to get positive care from providers that understood it. I try to support with a lot of psychoeducation, resources, and strengths-based approaches that work with your brain and help untangle the normative societal views that are given to us since birth on how we are "supposed to operate".

As an AuDHD therapist, learning about the inner workings of how I was autistic helped open a whole new world of acceptance and compassion that was not just ADHD or something else. I have worked extensively on trainings, education, and lived experience of how Autism shows up in people's lives and how it can be supported in a compassionate and dignified way. I will always validate self-identification and want to support my clients to getting their needs met.

I think that EFT can provide a broader vocabulary for people to articulate and feel their emotions, especially when blended with somatic interventions. If we think about the emotion anger and where the idea of numbness and fury can fall into place as synonyms, those require very different kinds of support. With more specific language that we can notice in our bodies and communicate, we can articulate the care and support that we need and deserve.

I believe that we are the experts of our own stories. From a narrative therapy perspective, I believe it can be helpful to walk through the storyline of our past, present, and future to understand how it unfolds and how we can edit and re-narrate past aspects to help provide more comfort in how we view ourselves. When we can look at the tape with a fresh perspective, it can change the story completely.

Pairing with narrative therapy, I think there can be a lot of subconscious/unconscious behaviors and reactions that are learned in preparation for safety and more. We might not fully understand it, but history tends to repeat itself unless intervened. With that in mind, if we can look through the past of how our patterns and past events shape us, we can understand the present and the future through new lenses to learn and grow to be the best versions of ourselves.