Discover Peace of Mind and Inner Strength
Psychotherapy & Grief Support For Adults, Teens, and Couples
Discover Peace of Mind and Inner Strength
Psychotherapy & Grief Support For Adults, Teens, and Couples
Welcome to Beech Tree Healing!
Individual Therapy
Individual therapy sessions are tailored to your unique needs and goals. I provide a gentle and compassionate approach to help teens and adults overcome challenges and improve mental and emotional well-being.
Trauma Therapy
Trauma therapy sessions are based on co-creating a safe and supportive environment to help you process and heal from traumatic experiences. I practice EMDR therapy, an evidence-based trauma protocol, to help you overcome trauma and find relief from suffering.
Grief Informed Therapy
Find support and guidance in processing grief and loss, and learn how to cope with difficult emotions. Whether you have experienced the death of a loved one, a chronic illness, a major life transition or trauma, grief counseling can help you explore your feelings, thoughts and behaviors and discover your inner resilience.
Couples Therapy
Couples therapy sessions provide a safe and supportive environment to help you and your partner understand your attachment style, work through conflict, improve communication, and strengthen your relationship.
Equine Facilitated Services
Equine facilitated coaching sessions are for individuals seeking transformation and healing around particular life issues or personal goals. I also offer equine facilitated therapy groups in collaboration with Wild at Heart.
Welcome!
The Journey
Now that you are here, I invite you to imagine that you are embarking on a journey. It has required your effort, your suffering and pain, as well as your strength and courage. You have made it this far!
You may feel alone and confused about where you are, where you are going, or how you should proceed. You may be feeling lost, disconnected, shattered or out of control. You may be feeling fear, doubt, self criticism, anger, or lacking the energy to go on.
Yet, something calls from another shore. Maybe a faint glimmer or yearning beckons you. Maybe there is a way through the storm, the maze, the peaks and valleys to this other shore. Imagine there is a way, if only you had a map, a compass, a lantern or a torch.
This shore, some unknown destination, seems unimaginable from where you sit now. Yet, part of you knows the truth. The truth that on this unfamiliar shore, on this strangely nonexistent shore, a new self will emerge, arising into existence and greeting you in warm embrace.
On this other shore there is freedom, relief, understanding, healing from all you are struggling with at this moment in time.
Now Imagine a warm, trusting hand in yours and feel into the strength, compassion, and willingness to join with you on this journey. Another, not so different from you. One who has found their way, their safe passage, by reaching out of the darkness and into the hand of some other warm and trusting hand. And so the path toward healing continues....
What I Offer
I believe that everyone has the potential for growth and change, and that therapy can help unlock that potential. I provide a safe and supportive environment where clients can explore themselves, their relationships and their lives in a fresh and meaningful way.
Somatic:
- My approach is somatic which means a lot of our time will be spent learning the language and story of the body, rather than just talking from an intellectual place. Somatic Psychotherapy helps clients get to the root of their problem and grow their capacity for embodiment. They experience the ability to live more freely with presence, responsiveness, and fulfillment.
- As we know, emotions, memories, traumas and early childhood patterns are stored within the body. Through the wisdom of the body, I support clients to increase somatic and emotional awareness and resolve old wounds and confusion.
Mindfulness-based:
- Mindfulness is a key ingredient for healing and making change. It helps clients learn to track their experiences from moment to moment. Research shows it is helpful in reducing symptoms of anxiety, depression, and pain.
- I introduce clients to mindfulness exercises at the beginning of sessions. Clients gain confidence using mindfulness principles outside of session and report improvements in self regulation, emotional awareness, and connection, as well as the experience of inner flexibility and choice in their lives.
- Mindfulness teaches us to live in the here and now rather than in the past or future. This helps empower clients to gain presence in their lives and builds confidence and contentment.
Trauma Support:
- EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing) is an evidence based trauma therapy treatment that helps clients of all ages overcome traumatic events. emotional issues, disturbing memories or bodily sensations that feel unresolved or stuck.
- Developing internal and external resources, body awareness, and safety and security are key to being able to process the energy of trauma. I focus on supporting clients in feeling confident and resilient in their resources so that the natural healing process can occur through reprocessing.
- Many clients report feeling that the issue that used to bother them, or disrupted the functioning of their lives, is changed through EMDR. It is often a surprising feeling!
- Gestalt parts work is an effective and transformative method for challenging or traumatic issues, as it invites resolution through organic understanding of oneself and the different parts at play. It often provides insight and relief on an energetic level as we explore a dialogue between thoughts, feelings, and impasses in a dynamic way.
- Psychoeducation about Nervous System regulation, window of tolerance, neurobiology and attachment patterns help clients understand and engage in trauma healing. I seek permission and acknowledge choice in our work together. I believe this is an empowering and healing aspect of therapy, as losing choice and autonomy are often part of traumatic experiences.
Grief Support:
- I honor the grief process as a sacred quest and am able to share a gentle, safe space for vulnerability.
- I offer support for chronic illness and end of life issues and help clients identify and develop spiritual resources if desired.
- I have specialized EMDR grief therapy training and knowledge and education related to grief processing.
- I offer therapy based on a 10 week evidence based grief curriculum as a Judi's House Pathfinders Provider. This model helps clients move through their grief process in a systematic and collaborative way using psychoeducation, coping skills, expressive arts, and ritual. Clients move through milestones of healing beginning with the reality of death and grieving, processing the complexity of grief reactions, coping with reminders and reactions, creating and integrating a coherent death narrative, adjusting to changes, completing unfinished business, memorializing and redefining connection, reengaging with life, dealing with grief waves, and preparing for the future.
Relationship Support:
- My style is relational, meaning I pay close attention and attune to my client's level of comfort or discomfort within the therapeutic relationship. I am open to feedback and listen to client requests. I make attempts to repair any ruptures or mis-attunements within the therapeutic relationship.
- I value the unique gifts and beauty of each of my clients and I feel deeply committed to their healing. I only see a limited number of clients for this reason.
- Attunement is the quality that helps us feel seen, felt and heard. It lets us know energetically that we are important and valued, This is often missing in our relationships from early childhood and into present day relationships. Many intimate partner relationships suffer due to lack of attunement and they tend to mirror those unsatisfactory patterns from early childhood. These are patterns we can explore and respond to with compassion and skill within therapy.
- PACT (Psychobiological Approach to Couples Therapy) is an effective and powerful method for couples to improve their understanding of each other based on attachment style, attunement, tracking, and co-regulation.
- Clients gain valuable information about their partner, which helps cultivate emotional depth and the ability to repair wounds.
- Clients also gain the ability to understand their own needs, as well as the needs of their partner, in a way that facilitates better communication, ability to deal with conflict, and ideally secure functioning.
- PACT informs the work I do with individuals, as well as couples.
Experience & Educational Background
Rachel Seely, MA, LPC is a psychotherapist, equine facilitated coach, and mindfulness instructor. She offers a somatic approach to EMDR therapy for trauma and grief, and includes Gestalt parts work, body centered or mindfulness exercises, and attention to relationship dynamics. Rachel has learned from personal and professional experience that through the lens of safety and security we can grow, explore, create, empower, and envision ourselves anew again and again. Through groups, individual counseling, or meditation instruction, Rachel welcomes and nurtures the emergent and intrinsic nature of the healing process. She began her career as a Spiritual Care Provider in hospitals & hospice and draws from her background in MA Buddhist Studies & Clinical Pastoral Counseling, as well as her 25 years of formal meditation training and practice. In 2019, Rachel earned a second MA degree in Mindfulness-based Transpersonal Counseling and began her private practice, Beech Tree Healing, LLC. As part of her clinical training, Rachel completed a 9 month equine therapy practicum serving survivors of sexual violence and those dealing with chronic mental illness, as well as completed PACT (Psychobiological Approach to Couples Therapy) Levels 1 & 2 and EMDR training through the Maiberger Institute. Since 2022, Rachel has been a Judi’s House Pathfinders Provider supporting children, teens and families through individual and group grief counseling, and she has been adjunct faculty for Naropa University’s School of Graduate Counseling & Psychology since 2015. Currently, Rachel is engaged in certification as an Equine & Body Mind Coach through the Academy of Coaching with Horses and feels inspired to bring this wisdom of deep connection and embodied healing to others through the gift of horses.