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VIVACITY COUNSELING, PLLC
A Secular Therapist in Midtown
VIVACITY COUNSELING, PLLC
A Secular Therapist in Midtown
Why Work With Me
Affirming, inclusive, and unhurried, I offer a space where nothing about you needs to be edited before you walk in. I specialize in religious trauma, shame, and the long work of self-acceptance, and I understand how deeply those wounds can shape a life. Whoever you are, whatever you carry, and whatever you were taught to believe about yourself, you will be met here with openness and care. You are safe with me.
About My Clients
My clients are thoughtful, feeling people who experience the world deeply. Many have spent years tending to everyone else while quietly carrying their own unmet needs, old wounds, and questions about who they are beneath the roles they play. They come to therapy longing to be truly seen, and ready to explore their inner world with honesty and care. If you feel things strongly, sense there is more to your story than you have had room to voice, and want a space where your depth is welcomed rather than managed, we will likely work well together.
Trauma Therapy
Depression and Anxiety Therapy
Trauma leaves traces. Sometimes they appear as anxiety, anger, fear, or a quiet hopelessness that follows you through your days. Just as often, they live in the body: digestive trouble, headaches, tension that never fully releases, intimacy that feels out of reach. These are the ways your mind and body learned to protect you, and they are also signals that something within you is still waiting to be heard. In our work together, we will listen to what your body has been holding, understand where it came from, and help your whole self find its way back to safety and ease. Healing is slow, collaborative, and entirely possible.
Depression and Anxiety Therapy
Depression and Anxiety Therapy
Depression and anxiety have a way of narrowing the world. Days blur together, rest stops feeling restful, and the life you want can seem to sit just out of reach behind a wall of exhaustion or worry. If you have been carrying this quietly, perhaps for longer than anyone around you knows, you already understand how heavy it gets. That weight deserves attention, and it responds to care. Together, we will make room for what you are actually feeling, understand what your depression or anxiety has been trying to manage, and slowly rebuild your access to motivation, meaning, and peace. You do not have to figure this out alone.
Self-Acceptance
Self-Acceptance
Real connection asks two things of us: to feel safe with another person, and to be able to bring our whole self into that closeness. Many of us learned early that we could have one or the other, but not both. So we adapted. We became who others needed us to be, quieted our own needs, and traded pieces of ourselves for belonging. If you recognize this pattern, you also know its cost: relationships where you are present but not fully known. The parts of you that went into hiding all those years ago did so for good reason, and they have been waiting. In our work together, we will find them, listen to them, and welcome them back. You get to be safe and fully yourself. It was never meant to be a choice.