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Fri, Jan 29Topia Boutique Retreat CenterCome as you are. Leave feeling more at home in your energy, and more connected to your wild courageous heart.
Pathways toward holistic healing & meaningful change
Free your present from the weight of your past.
Life is continually moving. When something you've experienced becomes stuck in your mind or body, it obstructs your freedom to flow through life feeling connected and whole. The good news is you already have what you need to heal within you. Our relationship is a supportive ground for removing obstacles, awakening your healing instincts, and opening to the fullness of life.
Together, we co-create the conditions in which you can digest and metabolize the life that has happened to you, and intentionally orient toward the life you most want to live.
Here, you are seen for the whole person you are. Different from just talk therapy, the healing process includes all parts of you: body, mind, and spirit.
When you are supported in relationship, and your wholeness is reflected back to you - it becomes possible to commit to yourself and discover your heartfelt pathway forward. On that path your suffering is the soil in which the wildflowers grow.
A Warm Welcome
My name is Alyssa Franks
My trauma used to feel like a "glaze of badness" over my entire life, coloring my moments with vague feelings shame, anxiety, and sadness. My path to healing C-PTSD and a lifelong eating disorder was through yoga, therapy, and expressive arts. As a counselor and teacher, my past pain now fuels my sense of meaning and purpose. Knowing the dark, I am dedicated to being a source of light - illuminating as best I can the natural goodness at the heart of all of us.
My background and experience integrates somatic therapy, parts work, EMDR, and yoga therapy. When we work together, I may use any of these tools as they seem most useful to you. Always, I prioritize mindfulness and caring relationships as the primary agent of your transformation. I currently see individuals and couples in-person and online at a low-cost sliding scale with Satya Wellness Collective.
Supervised by Deanna Saelee, LMHC #LH60493219
Offerings: Individual and Couples Therapy with Adults, Yoga Therapy with Adults and Adolescents
Approach: Parts work, somatic therapy, mindfulness-based therapy, yoga therapy, and EMDR.
Education:
MA in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from Naropa University (expected graduation August of 2026).
200 E-RYT, YACEP
BA in Acting from Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts, 2013.
MFA in Acting from University of Washington, 2020.
