A Holistic Alternative To Traditional Counseling

Specializing in . . . 

  • NATURAL
  • EASEFUL
  • PRACTICAL​
Somatic-Based Approaches
for stress relief, deep emotional healing, and personal growth.
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Scientifically-Proven.  Psychologically-Based.  Nature-Inspired.

Learn How To Feel Better. . . fast
naturally and easefully
about anything, and learn
​how to do it for yourself.
Does any of the following sound like you?
I've had traditional counseling before and it was helpful to a degree, but I still feel like I need something more.
I feel OK, but I feel like something is missing.

​I want to thrive, not just survive.

I'm seeing some patterns in my life and I want to be free of them.

There must be more to life than this.

I'm really into personal growth.
I'm tired of feeling this way and tired of feeling tired.

I'm tired of getting my buttons pushed by the same thing over and over again.

I'd like to get off my medication for ____ if at all possible.

I'd like to learn some tools that will help me feel more in control in my life.
I feel overwhelmed. Confused. Crazy. Stuck.

I wonder if some unresolved trauma might be at the root of my problems.

I have panic attacks and/or a sense of dread.

​I need help and I'm scared.
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I've been having some health issues and I suspect they're related to unresolved emotional stuff.

Shelly's Message To You

You have within you the capacity to feel good. And you have the tools within you to do so.

"We are hard-wired for bliss." 

- Candace Pert, neuroscientist

Wondering why you just can't figure it out and fix it?

Go Beyond Talk-Therapy
Release What's Keeping You Stuck
​Get to the root of the problem and
learn how to access the unconscious material 
​​that's driving your thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.​Learn how to release them so that you can . . . 
Heal From the Inside-Out
"When we look below the surface chatter of our minds, and turn our attention to our bodies, we encounter the less familiar, but ever-present world of the felt sense. Animals live their lives by it, but we have become disconnected from it. Yet within it lies a deeper truth than the mind can know - like who we are, what we really want, and what's holding us back."   Shelly M. Smith

What Makes This Approach So Unique and Powerful?

It's Body-Informed
which means that it goes beyond the limitations of the thinking brain and accesses the bodymind, where all of the unconscious material that's driving your thoughts, feelings, and behavior, is stored.
You're the Expert
This approach recognizes that you are the only one who can know what's really happening inside you and knows that you have everything you need within you to heal and to feel better.
It Happens In Nature
and acknowledges that, while these powerful tools work just fine in an office, being in nature is in itself healing and further supports us in reconnecting with our innate wisdom and healing potential.

The Body Is the Doorway Into the Unconscious Mind.

Overview of Services 

Nature-Based
Counseling & Coaching

For Individuals and Couples
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Healing Mind, Body, and Spirit

Emotions Coaching 

Learn How To Feel Better Fast
  • Learn how to release negative emotions - beyond expression, beyond suppression
  • Emotional Mastery
  • Emotional Freedom

Body-Informed 
Counseling/Coaching

More efficient than talk-therapy
  • Make deep and lasting changes by getting to the root of problem
  • Release unconscious material that's keeping you stuck​

Telephone Coaching

​Feel Better - On the Spot!
  • Get Emotions Coaching and Body-Centered Life Coaching over-the-phone.
  • Release stress and negative emotions
  • Perfect for non-locals!

Help For People With PTSD

Also providing . . . 

Equine-Assisted Personal Growth

A Body-Centered Approach
  • Get grounded
  • Get clear
  • Get feedback from nature's greatest empaths

Continuing Education

For Counselors and Therapists
Get CEUS While You Heal
​Personally & Grow Professionally
  • Workshops
  • Healing and Self-Care Retreats
  • Peer Counseling and Coaching (by phone or on-site)

Workshops/Retreats

Learn In and From Nature
Healing Retreats
​for Body & Soul
"Between the head and feet of any given person,
is a billion miles of unexplored wilderness." Gabrielle Roth
​​
Authentic, Conscious

Dance and Movement

Community Open Dances
Embodiment Workshops
Individual Sessions

Just For Women

Embodiment: Your Key To Healing, Empowerment, and Lasting Fulfillment
​More about Shelly.
Video interviews about working outside here. 

A Note From Shelly

Ever since I was a little girl, I loved being outdoors. One Sunday morning, I asked my father if I could stay at home and have church in the woods by myself. I couldn't really connect with the man "fussing" at me from the podium. But I could feel God - in the wind in the trees, in the air that I breathed, and I could feel a loving presence in every living thing.
I still do.
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