Individual Experiential Counseling is not about rehashing the same stories in a chair. It is about inviting your whole self into the healing process—body, emotions, imagination, and spirit—so that change is lived, not just discussed.
For those who’ve tried traditional therapy and still feel stuck, frustrated, or like something has been missing, this space is for you.
Individual Experiential Counseling
Experience change that lasts because it is felt in your body, not just understood in your head.
Work with nature-based practices and metaphors to restore calm and clarity.
Practice boundaries, self-expression, and relationship skills in real time.
Explore emotion through sensation, movement, imagery, or role-play when words alone fall short.
Witness where systems and culture have failed to hold and protect you. Identifying where in your life you have internalized hatefulness such as white supremacy, patriarchy, and homophobia.
Engage Internal Family Systems (IFS): IFS is guided parts-work to help you meet and tend to the many differing values, goals, and voices within you.
In IEC sessions, you may:
Instead of only describing your problems, you actively experience new ways of healing and relating. This can be achieved through guided imagery, role-playing, movement, challenge, creativity, nature-based practices, etc. The idea is that when your body, emotions, and imagination are included (not just your thoughts), change happens in a deeper, longer-lasting way.
Experiential therapy operates under the assumption that we are naturally moving toward healing. It asks us to notice, guide...and, more often than not, stop thinking and get out of healing’s way.
Experiential therapy is a way of doing counseling that goes beyond two people talking.
what is experiential counseling?
Experiential counseling is for individuals who sense that insight alone has not brought about the change they long for. It is for those who are ready to fully engage their whole selves in the healing process.
My pain is perpetuated or caused by systems that have oppressed me and people like me.
“My anxiety doesn’t live only in my thoughts—it’s in my chest, my stomach, my whole body.”
“I know the skills in theory, but I can’t seem to live them out when I need them.”
You may relate if you have thought:
WHO IS THIS FOR?
“I want a deeper connection to life without losing myself or shutting down.”
Ancestral and Religious Trauma
Systemic Oppression and Exploitation
Anxiety that feels overwhelming or stuck in the body.
Common experiences that bring people here:
Trauma responses such as freezing, fawning, shutting down, or explosive reactions.
Relationship patterns of over-giving, conflict, obsession, or disconnection.
Depression that lingers despite insight and effort.
"Ali guides you in Experiential therapy with confidence and kindness where the process feels more like a journey - moving forward during these troublesome times."
individual experiential counseling client
