Therapy
Approach & Modalities
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Healing is not one thing. At GroundingHearts, the approach is integrative — drawing from multiple evidence-informed and body-based modalities to meet you exactly where you are.
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 listed on this page are not menus 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.
EXPRESSIVE ARTS EMDR SOMATIC BRAINSPOTTING KETAMINE-ASSISTED INDIVIDUAL THERAPY ALL OFFERINGS
CLINICAL MODALITIES
The tools of the work
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Expressive
Arts Therapy
EXAT
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.
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→ Individuals → Trauma → Meaning-making → All experience levels
Creativity is not about product — it is a pathway. The making itself is the medicine.
Expressive 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 are would prefer to use creative expression in their process and to have deeper insight and make meaning of their truths in life.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
Eye movements, bilateral sound, and tapping techniques to interrupt and re-pattern trauma-related symptoms or manifestations. EMDR allows clients to reprocess and desensitize traumatic material by accessing areas of the brain and employing embodied experiences. EMDR helps clients integrate traumatic, painful, and unpleasant life experiences in a more adaptive way.
Somatic or Body-based Psychotherapy
A body-based approach that emphasizes the externalization of internalized sensations through direct and flowing body-based movements and positions. This could involve primal sound and movement that your practitioner is witnessing or participating in. There is an emphasis on comprehending the bodily events and processes that
influence the individual's mind and soul.
Brainspotting Therapy
Brainspotting is a gentle flow rapid change, brain-body healing therapy that thrives on the intuitive, uncertain, and attuned relationship between client and therapist. Brainspotting is a relational, neurobiological, and mindfulness-based approach so that clients can receive and process information readily. Brainspotting allows you to reach certain areas of your brain and aids in the integration of content or manifestations of earlier occurrences.
Some clients will notice a difference earlier in sessions, than traditional or cognitive therapy models, and others may require longer therapy, depending on the presenting issue. Brainspotting can be conducted with individuals, young children, couples and groups.
Watch this video of Dr. David Grand.
Watch my BSP demos on Youtube.
Emotionally Focused Therapy for Individuals & Couples
Based on attachment theory and experience for individuals, couples, and people in multiple relationships. The goal is to reorganize emotional experiences utilizing particular strategies immediately in the session using experiential and humanistic techniques.
Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy
Learn more about KAP therapy.