Rachel Pires

I offer a healing intensive model to treatment for individuals looking for mind-body and somatic-based therapy to heal relational trauma wounds. In this space, we can go narrow and deep, soft and slow, using transformational tools like EMDR, Ketamine-Assisted EMDR therapy, Psychedelic-Assisted therapy and somatic psychotherapy. Intensives range from 75 minutes up to 6 hours in length, depending on our treatment goals and focus. In our time together, we will focus the first few sessions on exploring your patterns, identifying the wounds, and work with the body to begin to map out the nervous system responses. We work to tend and befriend the mind, the emotions, and the body - honoring its strategies rooted in survival and begin to identify new patterns and ways of being. Once we determine our path, we journey together using a combination of EMDR and Somatic approaches. We often explore topics such as: shadow work, ego parts work, inner child work, and inner resourcing before moving into reprocessing trauma and old wounds. Many clients are interested in bringing in Ketamine to assist with trauma reprocessing phase of our work together, either by way of a psychedelic or psycholytic (low dose) medicine session. Our goal is to honor and identify the wound and then work with the body's innate healing intelligence that shifts from maladaptive to adaptive. We then move into integration, an ever unfolding and profound part of the healing process.