Seeded Somatics is the practice of composting your current somatic habits, narrative, and awareness in an effort to plant, water, and reseed somatic narratives, patterns, and awareness that cultivates a lived relationship and practice with being.
Services/Offerings
** Limited Availability **
*Accepting CareOregon/Healthsare Insurance*
Individual - $125-175 (Sliding scale)
Couples/Family- $200-250 (Sliding Scale)
The Approach
I have found somatic and depth psychology to be a meaningful and supportive framework from which to work with the process of integration. Integration is a process one continuously undertakes to shift and sort the insights gained from an experience or life event and live from a place of healing, learning, insight, and understanding. My professional training stems from traditional counseling/psychology, wilderness guiding, Somatic movement coaching, and my own personal wrestling with physical, emotional, and spiritual adversity. Clients are encouraged and supported to traverse expansive states of consciousness including grief and joy while grounded through a customized means of approach. Each person is a unique ecology, but we all share a desire to connect with our experience of ourselves, others, and the world in a holistic and meaningful way. Integration is a key process of health. I work with clients to assist in integrating past and present events, conflicts, adversities, and states of being. Working from a holistic framework that views each client as a whole being, and not separate from their mind, body, emotions, or soul. I work with clients using mindfulness exercises, somatic narrative, somatic experiencing, breathwork, and relationship-focused dialogue to bring balance and acceptance to what is while creating practice and rituals to create change.
Experience & Expertise working with the following:
Somatic Training & Breathwork Relationship Conflict
Men’s Work/ Men’s Groups Grief work/Groups
Childhood Abuse & Adversity Medical Trauma & Recovery
Addiction & Recovery Spiritual Practice/ Ritual
Psychedelic/Entheogenic Preparation & Integration
“Anytime you’re gonna grow, you’re gonna lose something. You’re losing what you’re hanging onto to keep safe. You’re losing habits that you’re comfortable with, you’re losing familiarity.”
James Hillman
@ianmackenzie
About Obi
I hold a MA in Counseling/Psychology with a specialization in addictions treatment. I am a certified drug and alcohol counselor, and I have been working in mental health for the last 15 years. I began working as a wilderness & leadership guide for youth and have worked in many different roles and areas of the western mental health system. Including Inpatient psychiatry, outpatient residential treatment, and clinical at-risk community outreach and support.
This experience has given me a healthy amount of clinical experience in working with various people and their families amidst unexpected conflict, grief, and chaos that life can hold.
Since I was young, I have been moving my body as a form of play, sport, and expression. I played various sports early on, and maintained a fairly athletic life through college playing football and as a young adult rock climbing and practicing yoga, and training for triathlons. I have been a certified movement coach and trainer for the last 10 years and have actively pursued continuing education in somatic depth psychology to mature my personal practice and understanding of wholeness and balance.
Several years ago, I was diagnosed with an acoustic neuroma brain tumor that would require three extensive surgeries and render me without balance, mobility, or hearing in my left ear. The last several years following these surgeries have been full of challenges including addiction, depression, suicidal ideation, and persistent physical pain. I have struggled, matured, and deepened over the years while integrating, healing, and recovering from imbalance and injury.
Braiding from my experience working within mental health, working and training as a movement coach, and living the hardships of a life-changing injury, I have created a practice and offering to support clients collaboratively. Authentically receiving, and listening to those I work with, and proactively moving the individual and the collective towards a practice that can create change and wholeness.
Skills & Certifications/Practice
Collaborative
Communicative
Empathetic
Plant Medicine Guide/Facilitator
Reiki Practioner Level 1I
Somatic Movement Coach/Trainer
Mindfulness & Breath-work Coach
Certified Drug and Alcohol Counselor I
Education
M.A. Counseling/Psychology in Addiction & Recovery
Lewis & Clark College
2013 to 2017
B.S. Psychology
Montana State University-Billings 2006
Graduate
Orphan Wisdom School People Gathered by the Storm (https://orphanwisdom.com/school/)
Continuing Education
Peter Levine, Ph.D. Trauma & Memory Course: Somatic Experiencing®- July 2022
Psychedelics in Therapy-MDMA, Psilocybin, Ketamine, Micro-Dosing Psychotherapy networker 2022
Gabor Maté Compassionate Inquiry Master Class
Deb Dana’s Polyvagal Informed Therapy Master Class
Professional Experience
Catholic Community Services Child & Family Therapist February 2018-September 2019
Counseling Intern
Lewis & Clark College Counseling Center August 2015 to May 2016
Sound Mental Health Clinician/ Case Manager Nov. 2008 – February 2010
Seattle Children’s Regional Medical Center Pediatric Mental Health Specialist- Inpatient Psych Unit April 2007 – August 2010
Yellowstone Boys & Girls Ranch Resident Support Counselor November 2005-November 2006
LeaderTreks
Wilderness Trip Leader May 2003 to August 2006
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