​As a HELPER and a HEALER you have your own personal work to do.

Doing your own inner work is ​vital because it builds your capacity to be a healing and comforting presence to those you serve.

You give to others & need your own space to be Full-Filled so you can be the compassionate, curious, comforting presence you are.

You require a space holder that understands you are  multifaceted, complex person who has unique gifts & challenges.

 I can hold that space for you.

Hi, I'm Valerie Louis, Ph.D. (she/they)

As helpers, we often give beyond our capacity AND we push parts of ourselves aside believing this will help us professionally but it can leave us feeling lonely, disconnected and depleted.
Instead of cutting ourselves off from our multidimensional selves, let's learn how to embrace paradox, reclaim our complexity, and welcome all of our humanity back home to our fascinating, multifaceted selves.  

Expanding our Capacity is how we lessen our suffering and reclaim our wholeness and power to serve. ​​

Credentials & Training

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  • Level 3 Internal Family Systems Certified Practitioner. 

  • Somatic Experiencing® Trained Provider. Trained through Advanced 1. 
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  • Ordained Non-Denominational Healing Minister, Healing Light Center, Rev. Rosalyn Bruyere, Director.
  
  • Ph.D. in Educational Studies focusing in Action Research, Intersectional Feminist Studies, Organizational Theory, and Democratic Pedagogy
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  • Graduate coursework & clinic work in Community Counseling​
Personal Work for Helpers is your opportunity to free the bound-up energy it takes to parcel yourself into "good," "helper" and "unprofessional" parts. 

​We begin where you are NOW with compassion, curiosity, & companioning with a deep knowing that all parts of you are welcome, wise, and doing the best they can. ​
This experience is for you if: 
  • ​You are a helper, i.e. healer, therapist, counselor, coach, teacher, artist, caregiver, medical professional, community activist, non-profit professional wanting a space for your own healing 
  • You desire compassionate space to explore your own healing
  • You believe your own healing increases your capacity to be a better helper to others
  • You like an individualized approach to personal growth
  • You want to explore & connect in a deep and embodied way with your inner Self
  • You desire wholeness & integration in your life
  • You long to be more embodied & present throughout your day
  • You want to move beyond the literal and integrate the symbolic and paradoxical into your healing
  • You believe spirituality is important to being a whole person
  • You wish to cultivate more self-compassion
  • You are a complex, multidimensional being and you are ready to embrace your whole self
During our time together, we follow YOUR lead. What do you want to explore? What is challenging you?
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I am a companion, listening deeply & following your innate wisdom that shows you the way back to embrace your wholeness. 

Our Methodology 

  • Internal Family Systems - A therapeutic system that helps you compassionately embrace your whole Self - reclaiming parts of you that have been burdened, exiled, and pushed to the shadows​
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  • Somatic exploration to connect to internal resources and regulate your nervous system​ in titrated and trauma-informed way
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  • Connecting to Spirit - Personal exploration of your guidance system and how to call in support

Attunement & Discovery

​We begin with tuning in & cultivating curiosity to explore what area of your inner world is calling to you.  

We take time to listen to your inner wisdom and what it is that you are interested in exploring and healing.

​We invite your body, mind, emotions, and soul into the conversation of curiosity & connection. 

Connection & Introspection

We connect to your wise Self energy and to Source to begin.

This connection helps you to move inward while Internal Family Systems, Somatic Experiencing, and connecting to spiritual energy helps you deepen into your channels of perception.

This deepening facilitates you in gaining insights and self-compassion that assist in your healing & development. 

 Integration & Practice

​​At the end of each session together, we wrap up with creating  connection points to help develop new neural pathways and felt experiences.

You will create next steps to facilitate practice & integration of the new wisdom from our time together.  ​

​Rest is built into this process. Rest helps to heal and integrate your new sense of Self.
The container for our work. 
By making a commitment to working together for a specific time frame the container is created for us to move into deeper levels of connection, healing, and creation.

​The container is:
6 sessions - $1140 

Our work together Includes:
6 zoom sessions to be used in a 9 week framework 
Email check in's & support
The container (6 sessions) can be renewed multiple times to deepen our work together & provide ongoing support.
For every 4 clients at community-sustainable pricing, one pay-what-you-can space will be offered. Please email me to be put on the sliding-scale waitlist. ​
Land Recognition:
I live and work on the stolen ancestral lands of the Myaamia, Osage, and Shawnee Nations & The Adeena and Hopewell People.  I strive to learn about and honor the People whose land this is and work towards justice as well as be a good steward of  the land and those beings, seen & unseen, that reside in the area.