Claire Garland:
A Compassionate Guide to Your Well-being

My work is rooted in somatic, mindfulness, and strengths-based approaches. 

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Somatic therapy, also known as body-oriented therapy, is a holistic therapeutic approach that integrates your mind, body, emotions, and spirit in the healing process. The idea is simple but powerful: Our thoughts, feelings, and experiences are deeply connected to how we feel physically. Somatic therapy is all about how your body, mind and emotions are connected. It helps you understand how things like stress, fear or sadness can show up in your body as sensations, like tension or pain. 

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Mindfulness is foundational to my work. Mindfulness brings a gentle and nonjudgemental awareness of the present moment. Using mindfulness as a tool looks like noticing thoughts, emotions, sensations, and impulses as they come up. Together, we help you learn practices to center and ground yourself, especially when things feel overwhelming.

 

I believe that even in your toughest moments, you already have incredible strengths and resilience within you. A strengths-based approach shifts the focus from “what’s wrong” to “what’s strong.” We’ll work together to rediscover the tools, values, and inner wisdom you’ve used to navigate life so far. You are not broken. We’ll honor what resilience has gotten you through and build on that foundation. 

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I am a LGBTQIA+ and gender affirming therapist.

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I work with people who are experiencing:​

• Anxiety

• Chronic Illness & Disability

• Depression

• Diabetes Burnout

• Grief & Loss

• High Sensitivity (Highly Sensitive People)

• Life transitions, Adjustment & Stress