Diverse Paths Psychotherapy
Group Therapy
Offered in-person at 2995 Shattuck Ave. Berkeley, CA
Art Therapy for Queer Millennials
We Millennials/Zillennials have lived through economic collapse, technological acceleration, constant social comparison, and a never ending series of “once-in-a-lifetime” events that happened every 3-5 years. This changes time perception. When time feels unstable, human nervous systems collapse. The future feels like it’s not guaranteed, and certainly unlike the linear timeline we were promised in our youth. We Millennials and Zillennials actually feel time as very pressured; pressure to catch up, to optimize, to rest, to be productive, to reinvent ourselves all at once. Millennials have a completely different adaptation to time-perception: we experience time with hypervigilance and therefore we are wired for demential time and NOT linear time. What does this mean?
We are excellent at pattern recognition, feedback loops, and non-linear learning. Demential time rewards coherence versus linear time which rewards stability.
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What does this have to do with art therapy?! Engaging with process-art (art for processing feelings and experiences rather than to create a final product) is an incredible way to leverage these skills that demential time-perception has gifted us. Process art with therapeutic facilitation, and in a social group, can utilize our pattern recognition, feedback loops, and non-linear learning to aid us in comprehending and integrating our grief, our rage, and our disillusionment.
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This group is ongoing, meaning new members can join at any time after completing an intake with me to determine if you're a good fit for the existing group. A 4 week minimum commitment is required to join for continuity. Sessions are 2 hours and the $65 cost includes all art-making supplies. Sessions take place in-person from 4-6pm on Fridays every week.
Consensual Nonmonogamy Support Group
In this support group, folx in alternative relationship styles and structures, like nonmonogamy/polyamory/swinging, come together to discuss the challenges of navigating various aspects of relationships in a mono-normative culture.
Therapeutic facilitation is offered for explorations of difficult topics like: jealousy, coming out to family, raising children, and time/disclosure management. Coming together in community to discuss what's most challenging, and fulfilling about nonmonogamy can affirm our needs, desires and choices.
Come as you are and bring an open mind and a full heart!
Rituals for Ambiguous Loss - Grief Group
Grief doesn't start or stop with death. Loss of relationships, healthy bodies, opportunities, careers, parts of identity all challenges us. In this group we will identify our personal ambiguous losses, share our pain and honor the chapters of life and parts of ourselves that we have to say goodbye to. We will discuss, invent, and even partake in rituals to collectively grieve our ambiguous losses.
"When the river of the soul takes your weight unto itself, you can release that which has died into the next world - so that you may live more fully in this one."
-Karla McLaren