• Religious Trauma

• Adoption Therapy Specialist

• Certified Brainspotting Therapist

As many as 1-in-3 adults in the United States have suffered from religious trauma at some point in their life. This can look like deep or chronic shame about being a sinner, chronic fear or anxiety around purity culture, salvation, rapture or Hell, or feelings of being unlovable or bad. I have experienced religious trauma, and I focus my practice on supporting others who have experienced religious trauma. I can support you if you have left your faith or if you want to remain in your faith and deconstruct from religious teachings that may have harmed you. I enjoy working with LGBTQ+ members who have experienced church hurt.

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I also specialize in adoption, and I see adult adoptees, birth parents, and adoptive parents. I am adopted, and I understand the complexities of being an adopted person. I am a certified Brainspotting practitioner, and I am also Internal Family Systems and Interpersonal Neurobiology informed. I completed the National Adoption Competency Mental Health Training for Mental Health Professionals through Center for Adoption Support and Education. I have contributed to the books The Adoptee Survival Guide (2015) and Adoption Therapy: Perspectives from clients and clinicians on processing and healing post-adoption issues (2014). I have also been a speaker at the Indiana Adoptee Network Conference (2018).

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I employ a strengths-based approach in therapy which focuses more on your internal strengths and resourcefulness and less on weaknesses and failures. I integrate nervous system healing through body and parts work along with Brainspotting to help process and release trauma. Your system knows how to heal, and I look forward to collaborating with you to thrive.​

I completed my Master of Arts in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from Indiana Wesleyan University. Feel free to reach out to me at lisa@greenhouseindy.com

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