I Believe in Post-Traumatic Growth.
HEY, I’M ELI HASTINGS, AND I RIDE WITH PEOPLE TOWARD HEALING.
IMPORTANT NOTE 1: As of 12/17/23, I have room for short term pro-bono trauma therapy for folks involved in Palestinian Freedom/Ceasefire movements with me. Or Palestinian or other POC from the region who are feeling so much.
IMPORTANT NOTE 2: I am accepting a few new clients who can pay out of pocket; a consultation to determine fit will be required!
IMPORTANT NOTE 3: I am diversifying my career and am taking clients as a trauma writing mentor/editor and more. Writing your way through healing, in my view, is at least of equal value to psychotherapy. If you are interested in these services, please visit me at Eli Hastings, Storyteller here)—I would be THRILLED to collaborate with other therapists and healers whose clients may benefit from the art of literary healing!
If you are dubious that psychotherapy can help improve your life, I ask you consider my perspective: “troubled”, sometimes (wrongly) called “broken” people are the most empathic, impressive, resilient humans I’ve ever met. Experiencing trauma and mental illness can be an immense superpower when integrated properly; in itself, it is evidence that we work—our mind-bodies have protected us! Everyone can benefit from the attention of a skilled psychotherapist—or healer of many kinds. I do not believe that talk therapy has the market cornered on anything.
I rarely have room, and provide referral resources I have faith in.
Therapy based in cognition (thinking stuff) has profound limits. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), and many other practices, are invaluable for gaining skills and tools for psycho-emotional stability. But they are not healing. Therapy modalities such as Eye Movement Desensitization (EMDR), Internal Family Systems (IFS), Somatic Experiencing (SE). Authentic Shamanic healing practices like Soul Retrieval, Compassionate Depossession and ethical Psychedelic Psychotherapy are painting on the walls of the Mental-Health Industrial complex, announcing the dawn of a post-traumatic stage in this field. And a much faster track to healing, even with complex trauma.
