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Specialties That Reflect the Full Human Journey
At NATIVation Counseling, we honor the full spectrum of human experience—grief, trauma, identity, anxiety, and spiritual disconnection. Our specialties reflect the real, raw challenges our clients face and the truth they’re returning to. Whether you’re navigating personal pain or collective trauma, we offer healing that’s culturally grounded, clinically informed, and spiritually attuned. This is more than symptom management—it’s restoration of mind, body, and spirit.
Trauma & PTSD
From Surviving to Reclaiming
We work with trauma that lives in the body, spirit, and lineage.
Healing Complex Trauma and PTSD
Trauma isn’t just something that happened in the past—it’s something that lives in the body, mind, and spirit long after the event. Whether you’re experiencing flashbacks, hypervigilance, dissociation, or a deep sense of emotional numbness, we see your pain and honor your resilience.
At NATIVation Counseling, we specialize in treating complex trauma, PTSD, and intergenerational wounds using a culturally grounded, somatic, culturally grounded approach. You’re not broken; your responses make sense. And healing is possible.
- We use EMDR, somatic therapy, and cultural practice to help you safely process traumatic experiences
- Our approach addresses emotional, physical, and spiritual symptoms of trauma
- We create a safe space to explore the impact of complex, developmental, and intergenerational trauma
- You will be supported through a structured healing journey designed to restore safety, identity, and empowerment
Depression Therapy
From Disconnection to Renewal
Reconnect with your purpose, spirit, and joy.
Depression Care with Mind-Body-Spirit Focus
Depression can show up as sadness or as emptiness, fatigue, irritability, or simply feeling nothing at all. It’s more than a mood—it’s often a sign of spiritual disconnection, unresolved pain, or burnout from navigating systems not built for your thriving.
Our approach to depression centers on reconnection: with your body, your truth, your community, and your purpose. Through talk therapy, breathwork, cultural practice, and energetic healing, we help clients move from isolation to meaning, and from survival to renewal.
- We help clients understand the emotional and spiritual roots of depression—not just the symptoms
- Our therapists use a combination of talk therapy, breathwork, and body-based practices to support emotional healing
- You’ll learn tools to reconnect with joy, purpose, and your sense of self
- We honor depression as a call for deeper care, not a personal failure
LGBTQ+ (Two Spirit) Issues
Where All of You Is Welcome
Therapy that affirms and empowers every part of who you are.
Affirming Therapy for LGBTQ+ and Two-Spirit Clients
Your identity deserves to be honored, and you deserve a healing space where every part of you is welcomed, affirmed, and celebrated. We understand that for LGBTQIA+ and Two-Spirit individuals, therapy isn’t just about mental health; it’s about navigating systems of harm, reclaiming joy, and rewriting narratives.
Here at NATIVation Counseling, we offer culturally attuned, spiritually affirming, and deeply compassionate care for those venturing down paths of gender exploration, queer identity, and intersectional healing. You don’t have to carry it alone.
- Our clinicians are trained in working with Two-Spirit, LGBTQ+, and intersectional identities in a culturally responsive way
- We provide affirming therapy that supports your identity, relationships, and self-expression
- You’ll find space to explore gender, sexuality, and belonging without judgment
- We honor the significance of your story and support you through every step of your journey
Anxiety & Stress
Finding Safety in the Present
Breath, body, and grounding practices for lasting relief.
Calming the Nervous System
Anxiety isn’t just in your head—it’s often your body remembering what it was like not to feel safe. No matter if you’re dealing with chronic stress, racing thoughts, panic, perfectionism, or freeze responses, our work begins with the nervous system and expands into the soul.
We help you find grounded, culturally supportive ways to regulate your energy, quiet the mind, and create internal safety. Anxiety might feel overwhelming, but it doesn’t have to run your life.
- Our approach helps you shift from constant alertness to a greater sense of calm and control
- We work with clients experiencing chronic stress, panic, perfectionism, and overwhelm
- You’ll learn grounding techniques, breathwork, and body-based tools to manage anxiety in the moment
- We address anxiety from a trauma-informed perspective, focusing on nervous system regulation and emotional safety
Grief & Life Transitions
Grief Is a Journey—We Walk With You
Supporting clients through endings, beginnings, and everything between.
Navigating Death, Divorce, and Identity Shifts
Grief is not something to “get over.” It’s a profound process of mourning, remembering, and eventually integrating what has been lost. Whether you’re grieving the death of a loved one, a cultural disconnection, a relationship, or a part of yourself, we offer gentle, culturally grounded support that honors your emotions and your pace.
Life transitions can feel like death and rebirth all at once. We make space for the pain and the path forward.
- Cultural, spiritual, and culturally grounded elements can be included in your grief process if desired
- We provide space to grieve losses of all kinds—whether death, identity, roles, or relationships
- You’ll receive support in navigating major life transitions, including divorce, relocation, and personal transformation
- We move gently with you through the waves of grief.
Somatic Therapy
Trauma Lives in the Body — Healing Does Too
Nervous-system healing woven into every session.
Working With Your Body, Not Against It
Trauma doesn’t just live in your thoughts — it lives in your body: the clenched jaw, the racing heart, the shutdown you can’t think your way out of. Somatic therapy works with the body’s signals instead of against them, using breathwork, grounding, and gentle nervous-system practices woven into EMDR and talk therapy.
- Breathwork and grounding woven into EMDR and talk therapy
- Gentle nervous-system regulation skills you can use anywhere
- Learning to notice — and trust — what your body is telling you
- A path out of fight, flight, freeze, and shutdown
ADHD
A Different Brain, Not a Broken One
Therapy and drug-free brain training for kids, teens, and adults.
Support That Works With Your Brain
ADHD isn’t a discipline problem — it’s a nervous system that regulates attention differently. Whether you’re newly diagnosed, suspect it’s been missed for decades, or parenting a kid who’s brilliant and struggling, we meet the brain where it is.
- Therapy that builds real-world skills and self-compassion
- qEEG brain mapping to see what’s actually happening
- Neurofeedback that trains the brain directly — no medication required
- Support for parents raising neurodivergent kids
Relationships
Love Shouldn’t Feel Like Walking on Eggshells
Individual and couples work for the patterns underneath.
Rebuilding Trust, Connection, and Yourself
Whether you’re rebuilding after betrayal, navigating a breakup or divorce, stuck in the same fight on repeat, or grieving a relationship that’s changing, we help you untangle the patterns underneath — attachment wounds, communication breakdowns, and the old survival strategies that keep choosing for you.
- Individual therapy for betrayal, breakup, and divorce recovery
- Gottman Method couples therapy when you’re ready to do it together
- Attachment-focused work to change repeating relationship patterns
- Support for boundaries, communication, and rediscovering yourself
Therapy for Native Americans
Traditional Wisdom, Modern Support
Healing Indigenous stories, struggles, and strengths.
Indigenous-Centered Therapy and Healing
Our practice was built with Native people at its core. We’re Indigenous and woman-owned, and every clinician here is Native — so the care you get centers Indigenous worldviews, generational healing, cultural safety, and traditional values, whether you live on a reservation, in an urban area, or are reconnecting with your roots.
We understand that your healing may involve ancestors, community, and cultural practice, not just emotions and coping skills. At NATIVation Counseling, you don’t have to explain your story before you can begin healing—we already speak your truth.
- Clients are supported in exploring identity, cultural reconnection, and intergenerational trauma
- We understand the impact of colonization and systemic injustice, and we hold space for both healing and resistance
- Our practice is rooted in Indigenous values and led by clinicians with lived and cultural experience
- We offer culturally relevant care that includes ancestral practices, storytelling, and community-centered healing
Mind-Body-Spirit Healing
Therapy That Treats More Than the Mind
Where breath, energy, and insight come together.
Support for Emotional and Spiritual Imbalance
Real healing works with the whole person — mind, body, and spirit. At NATIVation, we blend trauma therapy with somatic (body-based) work and culturally grounded practices, so you’re not just talking about the problem — you’re actually moving through it.
It’s a good fit if you feel disconnected, fragmented, or stuck, carrying something talk therapy alone hasn’t reached. We help you come back to yourself, at a pace that feels safe.
- This approach is ideal for clients feeling fragmented, disconnected, or out of alignment
- You’ll be supported in reconnecting with your body, restoring your energy, and reclaiming a sense of wholeness
- Sessions may include breathwork, energy healing, movement, and spiritual exploration alongside traditional therapy
- We treat mental health as interconnected with physical, energetic, and spiritual well-being
Spirituality & Identity
Finding Yourself, Finding Meaning
For those on a journey of faith, culture, or inner purpose.
Healing Identity and Inner Purpose
Your search for meaning, purpose, and belonging is deeply human, and we’re here to guide you through it. No matter if you’re questioning your faith, redefining your values, or rediscovering your culture, we provide a space for spiritual exploration and identity healing that is open, nonjudgmental, and deeply personal.
We support clients navigating everything from deconstruction to reconnection, creating a space to ask the hard questions and build a belief system that truly reflects who you are.
- You’ll find space to process religious trauma, deconstruct old narratives, and build new meaning
- Our approach respects all spiritual paths and helps you align your beliefs with your personal truth
- Sessions may include reflection, ancestral practices, and identity exploration to guide your spiritual growth
- We offer therapy that supports clients in exploring, questioning, or reclaiming spiritual and cultural beliefs
Chronic Pain
When the Body Has Been Hurting a Long Time
Mind-body support that works alongside your medical care — never instead of it.
Turning Down the Volume on Pain
Pain is real, and living with it is exhausting — especially when it lingers long after the body has done its healing. Chronic pain and the nervous system are deeply linked: stress, fear, and old trauma can keep the body locked in high alert, turning up the volume on every signal. Through Heart-Centered Hypnotherapy and somatic work, we help your nervous system learn safety again, so the body can soften and you can begin to feel like yourself. And, not instead of — we work alongside your doctors and your care, never in place of it.
- Calm an overactive nervous system that keeps pain switched on
- Ease the anxiety, sleeplessness, and depletion that pain brings
- Reconnect with a body that may have started to feel like the enemy
- Complements your medical care — we partner with your treatment team
Trim-Life Weight Release
It Was Never Really About the Food
A compassionate, whole-person approach to your relationship with food and body.
Healing the Roots, Not Just the Habits
For most people, weight was never a willpower problem — it’s a protection story. Food can become comfort, armor, or the one thing that soothes when life feels like too much. Trim-Life Weight Release uses Heart-Centered Hypnotherapy to gently reach the roots beneath the pattern, so change grows from self-compassion instead of shame. This isn’t a diet. It’s coming home to your body and learning to care for it with kindness.
- Understand the emotional roots beneath eating patterns
- Trade shame and self-criticism for self-compassion
- Calm the stress and old hurts that food has been soothing
- Build a kinder, more peaceful relationship with your body
Smoking, Vaping & Habits
Ready to Be Free of It
Break a habit’s hold by healing what it’s been holding for you.
More Than Breaking a Habit
Habits like smoking and vaping aren’t only physical — they’re woven into how you cope, unwind, and get through hard moments. That’s why willpower alone so often falls short. Heart-Centered Hypnotherapy works with the part of you that reaches for the habit, helping you meet the need underneath it in a healthier way. When the reason loosens its grip, letting go of the habit gets a whole lot easier.
- Address the stress and emotion the habit has been managing
- Work with the subconscious patterns willpower can't reach
- Replace the ritual with healthier ways to self-soothe
- Move toward freedom without shame or judgment
FAQs
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes—many people come in with overlapping struggles. We’ll help you make sense of your experience and find the right path forward.
Not at all. We treat people, not labels. Whether you’ve been diagnosed or not, we’ll meet you where you are.
Yes. Our trauma work includes EMDR, somatic healing, and cultural reconnection for those carrying deep-rooted or long-term trauma.
Absolutely. Healing is rarely one-dimensional—we often weave together areas like trauma, identity, and spirituality in your care.
Yes. While we support people who use medication, we also offer non-medical approaches like EMDR, breathwork, and somatic healing.
No. We work with people from all spiritual backgrounds—religious, Indigenous, agnostic, or curious. Your path is respected here.
Yes. Through Heart-Centered Hypnotherapy and mind-body work, we support chronic pain, your relationship with food and body, and habits like smoking or vaping—always alongside your medical care, never in place of it.
Both. We meet people in person in Missouri and offer telehealth across Missouri, Utah, and Arizona—so care can reach you even where it’s hard to find.
Reach out for a free matching call. We’ll listen to what you’re carrying, help you find the right clinician, and figure out the path together.