Holistic and somatic therapy guided by Michele L. Kong is a journey where you free yourself from limiting beliefs, as well as learn to live following your inner wisdom and luminosity.
Perhaps you have had prior talk-therapy experiences, and are looking for something a little different. Maybe you started meditating and are learning to notice your monkey mind, or cultivating beginner’s mind.
Similarly, if you’ve been studying yoga—or other mind-body practices—you may be beginning to see the interconnection between thoughts, emotions and the body. If you’ve been an athlete, dancer or perform in some capacity, perhaps you’ve learned to override, ignore and push through pain or injury, which you recognize is not sustainable long term.
Regardless of how you arrived here, you’re ready for individualized, professional support for what you are uncovering. You can commit to ongoing learning, reflecting on your behaviors, and gaining insights that can be applied towards new actions. Finally, you also understand how healing takes time.
Common concerns:
- Anxiety
- Career dissatisfaction
- Childhood trauma
- Depression
- Difficulties speaking up
- Grief and loss
- Indecision
- Intergenerational trauma
- Life transitions
- Loneliness and isolation
- Low self-esteem
- Panic attacks
- People-pleasing
- Sleep issues
- Unfulfilling relationships
My practice has been a magnet for those who have felt different, on the periphery, an outsider etc. If you resonate with being a highly sensitive person, we’ll likely get along. Eccentrics, trailblazers, visionaries and the like are also my kindred spirits.
Holistic and Somatic Therapy tailored for:
- Adult children of immigrants
- 1.5, 2nd, 3rd…generation
- Immigrants and refugees
- Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC)
- Bi-racial and multi-racial
- LGBTQ+
- Multicultural and multi-lingual
- Multi-faceted individuals
Affinities with:
- Change-makers
- Creatives and tech innovators
- Educators and healthcare workers
- High-achievers
- Mission-driven professionals
- Non-conformists and outliers
- Perfectionists
- Yogis and meditators
Services:
Discover how to make space for contradictory impulses, understand hidden needs and parts, reduce inner conflict and welcome all.
Hone your present-moment awareness, where patterns in the body—somatic responses—can be explored and resolved. Gentle attention invites the body to reset, find ease and transform from the inside-out.
Learn how to sort the past from the present, and to respond wisely rather than from reactivity. Trauma recovery will support you to more fully enjoy your one precious life.
For certain individuals who experienced childhood trauma, co-regulating, therapeutic touch supports shifts in the nervous system and the development of greater capacity as well as resilience.
Find and develop support that offers corrective experiences. Revisit past incidents with appropriate support where you integrate an empowered, more affirming narrative.
As an Asian American woman raised by immigrants, I draw upon my lived experiences to support you. I hold culture(s), gender, class and racial dynamics as well as other aspects of your identity in mind—filtering how I listen, offer inquiries, insights and feedback. In addition, I am cognizant of societal structures and systems we all navigate.
I want us to have open dialogue. For you to be able to share what works and doesn’t work for you. So that our relationship grows from collaborative efforts over time.
With gentleness and patience, I understand how you may need to slowly feel safe enough to reveal: things you might feel embarrassed about, buried long ago, or have difficulty finding words for.
True intimacy with yourself results from being honest. While having a trusted witness can also be very healing.
The body does not lie. You cannot fake the sensation of true pleasure. You cannot trick your body into believing that you are safe. Your body knows what it feels, and it feels what it feels for a reason. The body does not easily bypass its feelings or reactions quite like the mind is sometimes capable of doing. The body is much harder to distract from or gaslight when it is feeling overwhelmed.
—Jenny T. Wang, PhD, author of Permission To Come Home