AN INTEGRATIVE CLINICAL APPROACH
No single modality heals every wound
Viergelyn's practice is built around the understanding that effective therapy must respond to the whole person — their nervous system, their story, their culture, their body, and their spiritual life. She draws from psycho-spiritual, depth-oriented, and relational systems frameworks, combining them fluidly depending on what each client and moment requires.
The modalities on this page are not a menu to choose from — they are lenses that Viergelyn has trained in deeply and integrates thoughtfully. Some sessions draw on one; others weave several together. The work is always responsive, never formulaic.
What guides the work is not a protocol but a question: What does this person, in this moment, with this history, need in order to move? The answer is different every time — and the integrative framework makes it possible to follow that answer wherever it leads.
EXPRESSIVE ARTS EMDR SOMATIC BRAINSPOTTING KETAMINE-ASSISTED INDIVIDUAL THERAPY ALL OFFERINGS
CLINICAL MODALITIES
The tools of the work
Expressive Arts Therapy
Expressive therapists integrate therapeutic writing, narrative writing, poetry, drama, movement, visual art, and music into appropriate sessions to assist clients who are having difficulty recognizing and expressing emotion as well as meeting their needs.
Individuals do not have to be "artistic" in order to benefit from expressive art therapy. This is beneficial for those who prefer to use creative expression in their process and to have deeper insight and make meaning of their truths in life.​
Creativity is not about product — it is a pathway. The making itself is the medicine.
Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing (EMDR)
EMDR uses eye movements, bilateral sound, and tapping techniques to interrupt and re-pattern trauma-related symptoms. It allows clients to reprocess and desensitize traumatic material by accessing areas of the brain and employing embodied experiences — reaching places that talk therapy alone cannot always touch.
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EMDR helps clients integrate traumatic, painful, and unpleasant life experiences in a more adaptive way. Rather than requiring you to talk through an event in detail, EMDR works at the level of memory storage — shifting how the brain holds and responds to distressing material over time.
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This modality is evidence-based and widely recognized for its effectiveness with trauma, PTSD, grief, phobias, and a range of other presentations where the nervous system has become stuck in patterns of distress.
Somatic & Body-Based Psychotherapy
Somatic psychotherapy is a body-based approach that emphasizes the externalization of internalized sensations through direct and flowing body-based movements, positions, and awareness. This could involve primal sound and movement that your practitioner is witnessing or participating in alongside you.
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There is a central emphasis on comprehending the bodily events and processes that influence the individual's mind and soul. Trauma doesn't just live in the mind — it is encoded in the body, in the nervous system, in patterns of holding, bracing, collapsing, and reacting. Somatic approaches invite the body back into the healing process as a partner rather than a symptom.
Brainspotting Therapy
Brainspotting is a gentle, rapid-change brain-body healing therapy that thrives on the intuitive, uncertain, and deeply attuned relationship between client and therapist. It is a relational, neurobiological, and mindfulness-based approach that allows clients to receive and process information at the subcortical level — where trauma is actually stored.
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Brainspotting uses specific techniques to access certain areas of the brain and aid in the integration of content or manifestations of earlier experiences. Some clients notice a difference earlier in sessions than with traditional or cognitive therapy models; others may require longer work depending on the presenting issue. Brainspotting can be conducted with individuals, young children, couples, and groups.
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Watch Dr. David Grand on BSP → Watch Viergelyn's BSP demos →
Emotionally Focused Therapy for Individuals & Relationships
Emotionally Focused Therapy is based on attachment theory and experiential humanistic approaches developed for individuals, couples, and people in multiple relationships. The goal is to reorganize emotional experience using particular strategies immediately in the session, helping clients access and reprocess the deeper emotions that drive their relational patterns.
EFT helps clients move from reactive, surface-level emotional cycles (criticism, withdrawal, trauma reactivity, pursuit, shutdown) into a deeper understanding of the attachment needs and vulnerabilities underneath. In couples work, this creates the conditions for genuine moments of reconnection and secure bonding.
Integrated in couples, relationship, and individual therapy work, particularly with clients navigating attachment wounds, relational ruptures, or expansive relationship structures.
Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy & Intergration
Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP) is an emerging and evidence-informed therapeutic modality that uses the dissociative properties of ketamine to create expanded states of consciousness—opening psychological windows that can be difficult to access through traditional therapy alone.
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KAP is particularly promising for individuals with treatment-resistant depression, complex trauma, and deeply entrenched patterns that have not responded to other approaches. The medicine is held within a trauma-informed clinical framework: preparation sessions, the medicine session itself, and integration work are all part of the therapeutic arc.
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KAP is not appropriate for everyone; therefore, suitability is assessed carefully during the consultation process.
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Viergelyn offers integration life coaching consultations separately at Sacred Aura & Co.