Your relational healing coach.
WTF is Relational Healing?
I’m sure you’ll agree, everyone deals with sh*t. Sometimes it’s a pebble and sometimes it’s a boulder. How we handle the crap that life deals us is relational, and that’s what I’m here to help you with. I’m here to motivate you through whatever issue or transition you’re facing in life and get you to a place where you can love yourself as you are. Relational healing therapy harnesses authenticity, humor, curiosity, and acceptance to move you through your transitions.
While the process can seem hard, we work together to find your happy(er) space. Your healing process is unique so we’ll discover the treatment that fits you best. Whether you’re struggling with anxiety, depression, relationships, or body issues, together we can find the healing you need.
My life force is best harnessed when helping people heal. AND I’m a firm believer in try before you buy, so let’s see if we’re a fit. Schedule your complimentary chat with me today!
About Britta
My life journey has been an interesting one. It has been a life full of shifts, struggles, and strange encounters that has afforded me the spirit and space to sit with the transitions, hardships, and curveballs of life with a sense of understanding and acceptance. But let me start with the why. Sort of.
I moved to New Orleans right before the chaotic bitch that was Katrina decided to descend upon that sacred city. I had hopes of restoring historic places that spurred my love of the city when I was very young. After the storm receded, it was the whole of the city that needed a rebirth: from its roots, to its architecture, to its culture. And the culture of New Orleans is in the people themselves.
When many people left, some because they wanted to, others because they were given no choice, I stayed and did so with a yearning to bring back what I knew of New Orleans. For many months spent under martial law, I was restricted to my front porch and others to theirs from sundown to sunup. From those porches, we would talk to each other and find what connection we could in a city whose heart had been devastated.
From those porches, wild friendships formed and my path became more illuminated. I got my Masters in Counseling and began work in the poorest and hardest hit neighborhoods with the poorest and hardest hit humans. One of those sentient beings was a man named Dane. We would meet three times a week on a street corner in the projects, both perched upon milk crates. Dane was textbook schizophrenic, if there is such a thing. Much of his verbal ability got tangled somewhere in his head before it had a chance to come out. So we sat. And there we sat for three years. Very few words were ever exchanged but transformation happened and it was unlike anything I had ever witnessed. In that three years, Dane agreed to take medicine, go to doctor’s visits, come to groups. When we parted ways, he was on a bus to visit family in Dallas.
Dane gifted me such knowledge that transformed my work as a human and as a healer. It is not in words but in transactions that beautiful growth can occur. If you have ever visited the city or long to go, you will find people gathered on their porches, on their stoops, in their gardens. It is here that we as friends, families, and strangers find a place to connect. It is here that so much of who we are gets truly revealed. There are no pretenses, only a place to be. It was on those porches that I fell in love with all of humanity and hoped that in turn, I would be accepted as authentically me.
What all of this boils down to is: helping people is my top priority. Through my years of countless interactions with people dealing with mental illness, addiction disorders, body dysmorphia, and severe trauma, I’ve learned that communication comes in many different forms and I’ve worked hard to create an open line of connectivity with my clients.
From New Orleans to New York City and now back in my home state of Arkansas, I’m honored to work with amazing people and help them on their journey to self-love and self-acceptance. I’d love to work with you!
Britta’s Credentials
Masters Degree in Counseling from Loyola University
Licensed Mental Health Counselor licensed in New York & (soon to be) Arkansas
National Certified Counselor
Dialectical Behavior Therapy Trained Therapist
Sensorimotor Level 1 Training
Trauma-based Training
A Patient’s Story.
I have struggled with Binge Eating Disorder for as long as I can remember. In my attempt to recover, I have been seen by various treatment providers (all who have his or her own approach) yet I still was never able to make great progress. It was not until I started working with Britta that I was able to take responsibility for my actions and finally take a look at the root cause of my eating disorder. Britta’s unique, client-centered approach allows me to look at my eating disorder from many angles, which is necessary for recovery. Recovery work is often painful and hard to work through, but Britta is with me every step of the journey.
In addition, my story is complicated by substance use and misuse. For years I was afraid to discuss my use with therapists for fear of judgment. Britta’s non-judgmental and empathic aura allowed me to feel comfortable and finally begin to understand my relationship with not only food and self-esteem but my use of drugs and alcohol.
The growth I have had in the year and a half with Britta is more than I have in years of working with other providers (including an inpatient program!) Recovery is a never-ending process, and I still have a lot of work ahead of me, but I finally feel capable of recovery with Britta by my side.