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Find your way back to aliveness.

Relational and Somatic therapy for burnt out individuals and couples seeking a more meaningful, connected, and turned on life. 

IN SEBASTOPOL, CA AND ONLINE

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You can do so much "right" and still feel disconnected. 

Maybe you're exhausted. Maybe life feels a little flat, even though there's much to be grateful for. Maybe you feel lonely in ways that are difficult to explain, or find yourself longing for a deeper sense of connection with yourself, with the people you love, or with life itself. 

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You might might a great deal about why you feel the way you do, without knowing how to feel differently. 

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I believe there is another way to approach change. 

Sometimes what we need isn't another insight, another practice, or another way to improve ourselves.

Sometimes we need somewhere to soften. To slow down enough to notice what we're feeling. To be met with care and curiosity rather than another set of expectations.

This doesn't mean turning away from the difficult work of being human. It means discovering that honesty, accountability, and change can happen in the presence of gentleness.

Growth doesn't always require us to push harder.

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Ways we can work together

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Individual Therapy

For those feeling lost, anxious, exhausted, or disconnected from themselves. A place to explore what has shaped you, loosen familiar patterns, and find a more nourishing relationship with yourself and your life.

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Premarital Counseling

For couples who want to give as much attention to their future marriage as they do to their wedding. Explore what commitment means to you and the values that will guide the life you build together.

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Couples Therapy

For partners who want to understand the patterns they get caught in, find their way back to one another, and approach their relationship with greater care and intention.

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Hello, I'm Lily. 

I'm a licensed marriage and family therapist, and someone who has spent a good deal of my own life wondering what makes a life meaningful.

My path has included contemplative practice, searching, disillusionment, and the gradual discovery that becoming more fully ourselves doesn't always require becoming tougher.

I've come to trust the kind of change that happens when we can meet ourselves with greater honesty and kindness.

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You can begin wherever you are.

You don't need to know exactly what you want from therapy, or have the right words for what's been difficult. We can begin with what you do know: something feels important, and you're curious about what might be possible.

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lily (leucadia) petroff -- she/her -- MFT #156406

©2023 by Lily Petroff.

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