new story haven
Healing through relationship, creative expression, and radical imagination.
New Story Haven was created for anyone trapped in an abusive cycle.
Whether it's with another person, addiction, religion, system, or your own mind, the dynamics of the cycle function and feel the same. If you feel too drained, disoriented, and hopelesss to find a way out, please know that you do not have to figure it all out alone. We can move toward safety and healing together. New Story Haven offers evidence-based therapeutic services to empower you to break out of harmful cycles and write new stories based in a paradigm of compassion, empathy, and safe, loving connection.
Writing a new story for yourself means breaking free of the cycle.
There are many reasons why you may want to break free - maybe the cycle you are caught in is abusive or harmful, maybe you are exhausted and ready for a change, or maybe the old story just isn't true anymore. The present moment always holds possibility, and cultivating agency and imagination can empower you to write, tell, and live new stories. Your life is a creative endeavor. At any moment, you can begin to imagine the ways your story could transform, and you can begin to take action aligned with the new direction you want to go, even if it means carving out your own path. There is a life waiting for you on the other side of the old story.
Haven means a place of safety or refuge.
The right therapeutic relationship can function as a container for healing work to happen, beginning with safety and moving toward embodiment and authentic expression. Especially when the wounding occurred in the context of relationships, relationships can be the place where we learn again, or maybe for the first time, what safe, nurturing connection feels like.
What is safety?
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Safety means more than just protection from physical harm. It also means predictability, consistency, and security. In therapy, safety means clear, kind, and consistent expectations, boundaries, and communication. It means freedom from judgment and coercion, especially from the way the dynamics of power are weaponized in relationship in attempts to manipulate and control. Even therapists are susceptible to these dynamics and there is an inherent power differential in a relationship where one person is seen as a "helper" or "expert" and the other is in the vulnerable place of seeking "help." Not every relationship is safe just because someone says it is or has good intentions. Safety requires work, and the responsibility to establish and maintain safety is on the therapist, to ensure they are not perpetuating the same harmful dynamics of abuse. Maintaining that work and clear communication around it is my commitment to you.