Free Heart Holistic Psychotherapy
and Life Coaching
Jillian Foster LCSW, LCAS
Whatever your struggle, change is always possible....Love is the ultimate healer.
LET'S JOIN TOGETHER TO CONSCIOUSLY CREATE A LIFE YOU LOVE TO LIVE! PASSIONATE, PLAYFUL, JOYFUL, FULL OF DEEP PEACE AND FREE.
Feeling overwhelmed, tired, alone, lost, suffering in your relationships? Darkness is actually the source of all life. Perhaps you are in the dark womb of transformation and rebirthing!
We all sometimes just need a safe, loving space to drop in deep, get present with our selves, including our suffering, grieve, sort through some things, gain clarity, and support to take actions to manifest our goals and deepest desires.
I offer holistic Psychotherapy and Life Coaching to help you realign with your True Self. What do I mean by "holistic" you ask? The way I see it, Mind, body, spirit are all one. I see you connected and a part of all, life as an already complete being, with inter-connected parts of the whole. I see you as more than just a mind or a body, you are a spirit and ultimately, a soul. In my work and view of life, we are all One. I work with the whole being that you exquisitely and uniquely already are in this moment.
Anxiety and Stress
Grief
Trauma Recovery
Relationship Struggles
Depression
Addiction
Emotional/Disordered Eating
Smoking
OCD
Anger
Other unwanted behaviors and habits
EMDR
EYE MOVEMENT DESENSITIZATION REPROCESSING
Experiential healing of the nervous system at the root unconscious and somatic level.
My clinical EMDR training includes the standard protocol along with specialized protocols for early intervention and ongoing traumatic stress, and addiction. EMDR helps the brain to process and metabolize pathogenic memories that continue to activate the nervous system causing physiological, mental, and emotional disturbance. Do you feel like you keep going through the same things over and over again, maybe even feeling stuck in certain patterns of distress but unsure why? EMDR targets treatment of symptoms through systematic desensitization to triggering events or experiences. This research proven, evidence based practice helps by updating frozen memories, traumas, recurring triggers, and negative self-beliefs to help you feel relief from your disturbing symptoms, body up. In addition to standard EMDR that can address various different issues, I am also specially trained in The Acute Stress Protocol and Addiction Urge Reduction Protocol (DeTur Model).
HEALING RELATIONSHIPS
Emotionally-Focused Therapy
The Gottman Method for Couples
Mindful, Compassionate Communication Training
I see relationships as a spiritual practice. In addition to one-on-one sessions, I offer Emotionally Focused Therapy For Couples, an attachment theory based process of deepening compassionate understanding of the negative interaction cycles happening, and how to break free and heal, so our hearts can feel safe and open to love and be loved, our true nature. I am also a Gottman Level 2 Trained Therapist and find this directive approach is sometimes exactly what is needed to structure a practical application of research proven skills to improve loving relationships.
Together, we will hold unconditionally loving and compassionate space for you to receive whatever you are needing. There’s nothing you need to say, do, change, or fix in order to become better – you already are your perfectly whole self in this very moment as always – it’s just sometimes in life we can lose sight and forget our true selves through all the pain and suffering.
I see “psychotherapy” and life as a journey home to the true self
– a shift in perception from fear to love.
DIALECTICAL BEHAVIOR THERAPY (DBT)
Based in Mindfulness and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), DBT is an Evidence Based Practice to learn skills to manage intense emotions.
Mindfulness
Interpersonal Effectiveness
Emotional Regulation and Distress Tolerance
LIFE COACHING
Are you living the most happy, fulfilling life you have been designed to live? With Life Coaching, I take a holistic, practical, approach to helping understand your true heart longings and how to create a lifestyle that fulfills what you really care about. We will use tools in and out of session to help you assess how you are spending your time, what you are doing and feeling on a day to basis…what specific shifts need to be made to come into alignment with the life you really want to live.
INTERNAL FAMILY SYSTEMS AND ACCELERATED EXPERIENTIAL DYNAMIC PSYCHOTHERAPY
Access Self-energy to take care of your parts with the witnessing presence of True Self and True Other.
Being IFS and AEDP- informed, I work in a non-pathologizing, compassionate way, in the present moment, with all the parts that arise. We make friends and join together through the secure-energy to bring healing to wounds and protectors. Every part of us has a positive intention that emanates from a life-giving place.
