True change begins with understanding ourselves not as isolated individuals, but as being in harmony with our human and nonhuman worlds. This is full ecology.
Right Relationship
Right relations is akin to the 'all my relations' philosophy held by many Indigenous cultures, where the interconnectedness of all beings centres our responsibility and reciprocity in relationships.
Asiah offers integrative therapy and healing practice as a Holistic Counselor and Psychosomatic Therapist, Building on her unique skill set as a bodywork therapist, and educational background, Heron Center embraces evolving and nurturing elements for both cultural safety and humility. Offering trauma-informed practice with a strengths based approach that considers the whole person by acknowledging individual knowledge, strengths, and experience, healing in this space arises from the wellspring of Peace. It is collaborative, and builds on possibilities, exploration, and community. Her treatment and therapeutic approach is focused on the individual, their unique needs, experiences, and growth, supporting the development of the Inner Reservoir, resident in the core of who we are as human beings.
Rooted in Humanistic Full Ecology, this psychotherapeutic specialization is one that re-imagines approaches to therapeutic practice, enhances and supports the individuation work of women's community, and integrates the essential perspectives of depth psychology and applied healing traditions. As an integrative practice, it is one that honors the synchronicity of body, mind, spirit, and soul, including alternative and non-linear healing modalities. It explores the critical connections between psychology, consciousness, spirituality, and healing. In this type of therapeutic session, we enter a transformative engagement with the psyche, complexity and emergence, artistic intuition, organic intelligence and the natural world. As a team, we begin the deep work, together, to integrate essential healing traditions and contemporary research—drawing from indigenous and ancient practices, ecotherapeutic modalities, multicultural and contemporary perspectives, and emerging science on human experience and consciousness.
Asiah's psychotherapeutic educational background includes a MSc degree in Psychology, certifications and coursework in both counselling and life coaching techniques, cognitive behavioral therapy, meridian psychotherapy, dream analysis, past life regression therapy, somatoemotional release, neurolinguistic programming, trauma informed care & practice, ayurvedic breathwork and breathing exercise, somatic and trauma informed yoga therapy, traditional aboriginal healing, and energy psychology, With her extensive knowledge of advanced therapeutic bodywork, she offers supportive insight into psychosomatic health.
Asiah's clinical experience has been rooted in both Ayurvedic and Traditional Chinese Medicine practice, where Mind Body and Spirit are considered one, and where balance is key to good health on all levels. Her experiential learning repertoire has included:
Development of Empathy and Emotional Intelligence as the foundation
Empathy is at the foundation of all therapy. It is the most important factor in all psychological techniques, and only with empathy and emotional intelligence can treatment be sensitive in acknowledgment of the individual's suffering. Reflection is necessary after inquiring about the client’s inner conflicts and emotional state. Focusing techniques that are guided by the therapist initiate reflection of the client’s verbalized thoughts and feelings, facilitating the application of those reflections as a cross-reference to achieve a “felt sense”, a realization that moves the therapy forward. In turn, there is often a willingness to pay attention to the body as well as the mind, and a recognition of wholeness.
Development of Mindfulness
The most important thing about mindfulness is that it allows one to break out of the automatic (or “triggered”) pattern of cognition and achieve a completely different awareness in the present. Over time, mindfulness-based therapy has shown considerable ameliorative effects on emotional suffering and imbalance. This is a thought framework that has great potential in effecting positive change. Moreover, for many, it becomes a skill that encourages strength of the individual in moving through daily life.
Guided Focus
Continuing along the spectrum of humanism, Eugene T. Gendlin took psychotherapy to a new level by establishing the technique of “focusing psychotherapy”. Focusing psychotherapy not only contains the spirit of humanism but also mindfulness often compared to a way of life resident in Buddhist philosophy. In guided focusing, the repressed contents of unconsciousness, represented by any forms of symbol, metaphor, and physical symptom, await further exploration in becoming new balanced life experience. This is also a pillar of modern Positive Psychology and the science of Happiness.
Narrative techniques
Narration is a journey in self discovery. This technique facilitates the uncovering of individual story scripts that are applied in daily life and activity. Through the telling and being witnessed by a therapist, the exploratory potential of a new story script that may be hidden is often revealed. As a result, this process allows one to see new story lines and in a new frame of reference and perspective. The new framework means new experiences and meanings, thereafter a different awareness of life will also be felt.
Asiah is currently completing a Diploma in Jungian Analysis with a focus on depth psychotherapy, dream and symbolic interpretation. Coursework in this program includes the 'treasury of the collective unconscious' by understanding its communication through the symbols in our dreams, life events, myths, culture, and religion. It also provides an in-depth study of the process of Individuation. This was the term used by Jung for the achievement of wholeness through self-knowledge and included the identification of personal complexes and projections, the ability to question consensus reality and its blind spots so that we can discover our proper place in the world and in Nature.
Psychosomatic Therapy & Holistic Counseling
In Person
A beautiful trusted space where you are free to express yourself and tell your story. Much focus is placed on self discovery and affirmation, deep listening, and taking steps in moving forward.
Rooted in Body Intelligence, an individual engagement in Ecological, Humanistic, & Depth Psychology framework, as well as Functional Integration of the Body Mind Heart experience, this work is designed to support personal development and growth through Positive Entrainment and Embrace of Personal Ownership & Authority. Key components include Trauma Informed Somatic Yoga exercise, Breathwork, Meditation, Creative Visualization, Voice & Sound Activation, alongside Narrative Witness.
Psychosomatic Therapy & Holistic Counseling
Online Virtual
A beautiful trusted space where you are free to express yourself and tell your story. Much focus is placed on self discovery and affirmation, deep listening, and taking steps in moving forward.
Rooted in Body Intelligence, an individual engagement in Ecological, Humanistic, & Depth Psychology framework, as well as Functional Integration of the Body Mind Heart experience, this work is designed to support personal development and growth through Positive Entrainment and Embrace of Personal Ownership & Authority. Key components include Trauma Informed Somatic Yoga exercise, Breathwork, Meditation, Creative Visualization, Voice & Sound Activation, alongside Narrative Witness.