Hello, I’m Eden
(She/Her)
Born and raised in Southern California, I grew up spending most of my time amongst the orange and eucalyptus trees that landscaped my parents backyard. Usually with the dogs by my side, my imagination took me on adventures and dreamscapes that led me to be the person I am today. I am a deeply attuned and sensitive empath with the world around me, be that with humans, animals, plants, and environment. My ability to connect energetically with those around me assists me in walking with clients during their therapeutic process as they make profound discoveries and find meaning within their internal and external world. As an out-of-the-box thinker, I gravitate toward artistic spaces where my creativity can roam free. I am neurodivergent and invisibly physically disabled, which informs all that I do.
Before attending school to be a therapist, I attended a performing arts college in which I strengthened my skills in movement and music. Upon discovering it was the stories and connectiveness that I loved most about the performing arts, I returned to school, earning a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology & Sociology from Portland State University in which I graduated Summa Cum Laude, and a Masters Degree in Marriage, Couple, & Family Therapy with a specialization in Sexualities from Lewis & Clark College’s Graduate School of Education and Counseling in Portland, Oregon.
Alongside my Masters in Marriage, Couple, & Family Therapy with a specialization in Sexualities, I hold a certification in Sexual Assault Survivor Advocacy and am a Certified Somatic Attachment Therapist.
My work is informed by the belief that a persons relationship with themself is not only planted in relationships with other human beings, but also by the relationships we cultivate with non-human beings and the systems in which we live.
Healing is a “within, among, and between” process.
You can expect our work together to be creative, collaborative, and deepening of the ways you understand all versions of yourself; inner child, present self, and future. I believe that by building secure attachment within the therapeutic container, you are able to build greater safety and security with yourself and all your relationships.
Outside of working with clients, I love spending time outdoors, especially with my partner, our daughter, and our two rescue dogs. Of all the things that make me happy, being a mother to my amazing daughter is what makes me the happiest.
My favorite activities include camping, hiking, forest bathing, swimming in natural water sources, road trips, gardening, listening to or playing music, doing arts & crafts, reading, writing, watching tv & movies, and cooking/baking for the people I love. In the most fantastical version of my life, I live in a cottage fantasy where I frolic in the meadows, converse with the plants and animals, and am always cooking up some healing concoction in my kitchen/apothecary.
As a therapist, I feel I am a weaver, assisting clients in sewing together the fabric of their lives to create a tapestry that honors ones complexity. My therapist identity is also that of a dedicated gardener, assisting clients in planting seeds for change while tenderly guiding them through a process of growth.
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What is CreativeBelonging?
CreativeBelonging Psychotherapy was founded on the idea that many living beings in the world need to search for their place of belonging, for our society has too often catered to small boxes and linear identities. When I was in elementary school, my teacher told my parents I was a “square peg in a round hole”, in reference to my imagination and creativity. As I grew older, several life events made me susceptible to feeling not quite here nor there.
CreativeBelonging Psychotherapy is for the displaced, the “never found my people”, the “I don’t quite fit in”, the “I don’t see myself in this place”, the witchy ones, the “they told me I was one way, but I actually am another”. At this practice, we get to be creative about the way we work to carve out technicolored heart spaces for difference and authenticity in a world otherwise, “choose one or the other”.
This practice assists clients in weaving together their embroidery of stories, sensations, and present emotions yet to be explored, helping them in moving toward a new landscape for belonging.
As your therapist, I am dedicated to bringing nuance and creativity into the space we will shape together, inspiring therapy to be a building block not only for you, your wellness, and relationships, but for community change and liberation.
