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What brought me to this work was my own suffering, and ultimately, what I did to turn my suffering into my freedom.

 

I would say that I was completely lost for most of my life, and I had no idea that I was - I guess the best diagnosis for me would not even be a technical DSM diagnosis, but I was codependent,

and I had NO IDEA! All I wanted was love! I watched my life get turned upside down many times after lovers left or I realized that I had found a relationship with somebody who was not going to meet my needs, but could not leave. The very thought of the end of a relationship was deeply terrifying. It would take me years to recover and most of that time was spent hoping that person would return confessing their undying love.

 

The last relationship happened to bring a huge blessing into my life, which was my son. This event changed everything. I also had a strong spiritual practice for the 5 years prior, so I’m sure that helped my son be the catalyst in manifest form. Being a mom gave me the time and space to look at myself and finally be accountable and begin creating the change I had been longing for.

 

I had been searching for love for a long time, and I didn’t know that I was actually lost in a mess of unconsciousness, allowing my trauma wounds to guide me, disguised as a fantasy of love and romance.

 

I walked an intense healing path for many years, gaining most of my tools initially through my spiritual practice. I changed the way I viewed the world, how it was orchestrated, and ultimately, I became a master of shadow work. I was just beginning my journey down the Social Work path and eventually realized that the tools I was using were very similar - to make that which was unconscious, conscious, by allowing my intention to heal guide me one day at a time. 

 

I didn’t have to go searching for triggers, they found me. I took a very unlikely path and chose to stay in an environment that invited in my deepest and hardest triggers, so my wounds could find resolution. I stopped fighting, I stopped pointing fingers, and I accepted that these were my wounds to heal, and the world was providing me with a gift in showing them to me.

 

Eventually, my journey became much more broad when I realized that I had a lot of distress in a lot of areas of my life, it wasn’t just my love life, and I could use these tools in every single area and create a whole new world for myself. Eventually, I turned a potentially disastrous and toxic relationship with my son's dad into a supportive life long friendship and moved across the country from Los Angeles to the Asheville mountains where my soul called me to start a new career as a therapist.

 

I would say that before my healing journey started, I was suffering, but I didn’t really know it. A lot of the suffering was that my trauma wounds were in charge of my life - they were the point of attraction with the strongest leverage - they were dictating how I showed up, what I did, where I went, who I attracted, who I was attracted to, and how I reacted. I ultimately understood that I didn’t have any real choices until these wounds were resolved. My healing journey has led me to my highest vision of wanting to help others find freedom and empowerment as I am finding.

 

In my practice I utilize knowledge from my own spiritual journey combined with multiple modalities in Social Work including narrative, DBT, relational spiritual, Polyvagal theory, trauma informed, dream analysis, jungian psychology, psychodynamic, somatic experiencing, and EMDR.

 

 

SERVICES

 

 

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Currently, only group therapy is being offered in session based closed-groups with a limited number of spots available per session. 

 

Trauma, Addiction, and Relationships through the Lens of Spirituality group - Exploring our relationship with life and how to navigate internal change in order to move forward - discovering our authentic and powerful selves!

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A group where we can share and explore our wounds and bring a new understanding to the significance of our pain. 

Providing a spiritual foundation, with tools, to help navigate our everyday challenges while impacting our bigger experiences of consciousness and meaning. 

 

Next group session Tuesdays Sept 10- Oct 22.

email izzylighttherapy@gmail.com to join.

 

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