Winding Path Counseling, LLC
Approaches
Accelerated Resolution Therapy
Accelerated Resolution Therapy is a breakthrough, evidence-based approach that helps people process and resolve trauma, anxiety, grief, and more—often in just a few sessions. Using relaxing eye movements and guided visualization, ART helps your brain reprocess distressing memories so they no longer carry emotional charge.
You don’t have to relive the pain or tell your story in detail. ART is gentle, fast, and highly effective, helping you feel relief without being overwhelmed.
Inner Child Work
Inner child work is a powerful way to connect with the younger parts of you that still carry pain, fear, or unmet needs. Using an Internal Family Systems (IFS) approach, we gently explore these “parts” with curiosity and compassion—helping you understand why they show up, what they’re protecting, and what they truly need.
Instead of trying to “fix” yourself, you learn to befriend your inner child, offering the love and support they never received—and inviting lasting healing from the inside out.
Reiki-Assisted
Therapy
Reiki-assisted psychotherapy blends traditional talk therapy with calming energy healing to support healing on every level—mind, body, and spirit. Reiki helps release emotional blockages, regulate the nervous system, and create a sense of inner peace, making it easier to process and integrate therapeutic work.
It’s a grounding, holistic approach for those who want to go deeper—especially when words alone aren’t enough.
Accelerated Resolution Therapy
💫 What Is Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART)?
Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART) is a cutting-edge, evidence-based therapy that helps you quickly and gently resolve trauma, anxiety, grief, phobias, and other distressing experiences—often in just 1 to 5 sessions.
Unlike traditional talk therapy, ART doesn’t require you to relive painful memories or share every detail of your past. Instead, it helps your brain process and store distressing experiences in a new way, so they no longer feel overwhelming.
🧠 How It Works
ART uses a combination of:
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Guided eye movements (similar to EMDR)
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Imagery rescripting, where you “rewrite” how the brain stores the memory
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Mind-body connection, helping the nervous system release stuck emotional responses
This approach allows you to keep the facts of what happened, but lose the intense emotional charge that’s been impacting your daily life.
Clients often say:
“I still remember it, but it doesn’t hurt anymore.”
🌿 What ART Can Help With
ART has been shown to be highly effective for:
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PTSD and trauma
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Anxiety and panic
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Grief and complicated loss
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Phobias and fears
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Chronic stress
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Relationship pain or betrayal
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Negative self-beliefs or low self-worth
Whether you’ve experienced a single traumatic event or years of emotional pain, ART can help you find fast, lasting relief—without being re-traumatized.
💬 What to Expect in a Session
In an ART session, you’ll be guided step-by-step through a process that helps your brain and body release distressing images and sensations. You’ll stay fully aware and in control throughout. You don’t need to go into detail about what happened unless you want to.
Many clients feel lighter, calmer, and more grounded after just one session.
🌟 Why Try ART?
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It’s fast and effective
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It’s non-invasive and gentle
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It works even if you’ve tried other therapies
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It honors your story without requiring you to relive it
If you’ve felt stuck in your healing or overwhelmed by the idea of traditional trauma therapy, ART may be the compassionate, focused support you’ve been looking for.
🌱 Ready to Release What’s Weighing You Down?
You don’t have to carry it forever.
You can remember without reliving.
You can heal more quickly than you think.
Let’s explore whether ART is right for you.
Inner Child Work
🌿 What Is IFS-Informed Inner Child Work?
Inner child work is a healing process that helps you reconnect with the younger parts of yourself that still carry emotional wounds, unmet needs, or beliefs formed in early life. These parts—your “inner children”—often show up in adulthood as anxiety, self-doubt, people-pleasing, emotional reactivity, or chronic shame.
At Winding Path Counseling, we approach this work through the lens of Internal Family Systems (IFS), a compassionate, non-pathologizing model of therapy that sees your internal world as made up of many “parts”—each with its own feelings, needs, and role in your system.
🧸 Why Inner Child Work Matters
When your inner child is hurting, your adult self may struggle to feel safe, worthy, or emotionally stable. You might:
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Be hard on yourself for feeling “too sensitive”
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Get overwhelmed by emotions that feel bigger than the situation
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Feel stuck in patterns of perfectionism, overfunctioning, or self-abandonment
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React strongly to rejection, conflict, or criticism
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Experience a deep longing for love, safety, or validation—but not know how to get it
These responses aren’t flaws. They’re survival strategies your younger self developed to protect you. Inner child work helps you gently unburden those parts and offer them the support they never received.
🌀 How IFS-Informed Inner Child Work Helps
In session, we’ll work together to:
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Identify the wounded child parts that are still active in your inner world
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Understand the protectors that are working hard to keep you safe (like overachieving, people-pleasing, or numbing out)
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Build a compassionate relationship between your adult self and your inner child
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Offer those parts the healing, love, and validation they’ve been waiting for
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Shift your internal system from chaos to connection—from survival to self-leadership
You don’t need to relive old wounds—you just need to listen with curiosity and care.
💬 What to Expect in a Session
Inner child work is paced gently and always with consent. You’ll be guided to connect with your inner world in a way that feels safe and grounded.
Some sessions might involve:
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Visualization or guided imagery
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Talking to your inner child from your wise, adult self
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Listening to what that part needs
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Releasing outdated beliefs or burdens carried since childhood
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Integrating your inner child’s joy, playfulness, and creativity
You’ll leave with tools to soothe yourself in the moment, set clearer boundaries, and move through the world with more confidence and compassion.
💛 Why This Work Is So Transformative
When your inner child feels seen and supported, everything starts to shift. You’ll begin to:
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Feel more emotionally balanced and less reactive
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Trust yourself and your decisions
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Heal deep-rooted shame and self-criticism
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Let go of old patterns and relate to others from a grounded, loving place
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Reconnect with your authenticity, creativity, and joy
This isn’t about staying stuck in the past—it’s about finally bringing the past into the light, so you can move forward with freedom.
🌱 You Can Be the One You've Been Waiting For
The love, safety, and support your inner child needed? You can offer it now.
And you don’t have to do it alone.
Let’s gently begin the journey back to your truest self.
Reiki-Assisted Therapy
✨ What Is Reiki-Assisted Psychotherapy?
Reiki-assisted psychotherapy is a gentle, integrative approach to healing that blends traditional talk therapy with Reiki energy healing to support the mind, body, and spirit. It’s especially helpful when you’ve done “all the right things” in therapy but still feel stuck, disconnected, or emotionally overwhelmed.
By weaving Reiki into the therapy space, we invite the body’s natural wisdom and energetic system into the healing process—making it easier to release emotional blocks, regulate the nervous system, and reconnect with your inner self.
🌿 Why Energy Matters in Emotional Healing
Most of us carry not only mental and emotional stress, but also the energetic imprint of our life experiences—grief, trauma, shame, anxiety, burnout, heartbreak. These experiences often get stored in the body, creating tension, fatigue, emotional numbness, or patterns we can’t quite explain.
Talk therapy helps you understand and process your story. Reiki helps you feel and release what the body is holding onto—often without needing to say a word.
Together, they create a deeply healing, holistic path to wholeness.
🧘♀️ What Happens in a Reiki-Assisted Therapy Session?
Sessions begin with traditional therapy: we’ll talk about what’s coming up for you emotionally, mentally, or spiritually. When it feels right and you’re open to it, we may incorporate Reiki.
Reiki can be:
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Hands-off (hovering a few inches above the body)
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Gentle touch (with consent)
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Offered while you sit or lie down, fully clothed and comfortably supported
During Reiki, you might experience:
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A sense of calm, warmth, or peaceful stillness
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Emotional release or insight
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Gentle physical sensations like tingling or lightness
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Deep relaxation, sometimes even sleep
It’s perfectly okay to feel a lot—or not much at all. Reiki meets you exactly where you are.
🌀 What Reiki-Assisted Psychotherapy Can Help With
This integrated approach is ideal for supporting:
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Trauma recovery (especially when the nervous system is overwhelmed)
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Anxiety, stress, and emotional burnout
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Inner child healing and attachment wounds
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Depression, grief, and life transitions
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Self-worth and body-based shame
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Spiritual disconnection or soul-level healing
It’s also wonderful for those who are sensitive, empathic, or feel deeply and need a therapy approach that honors both their emotional and energetic world.
🌺 Why Clients Choose Reiki-Assisted Therapy
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“I’m tired of only talking about my pain—I want to feel real healing.”
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“I want to reconnect with myself in a deeper way.”
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“My trauma is in my body. I need something that goes beyond words.”
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“I want a safe space for my mind, body, and spirit to all be held.”
Reiki doesn’t replace therapy—it enhances and deepens it. Together, we’ll work to create lasting change not just in how you think, but in how you feel and live.
🌱 Healing Is Not Just Mental—It’s Energetic, Too
You don’t have to force your healing.
You don’t have to stay stuck in your head.
You can find peace in your body, safety in your energy, and wholeness in your self.
If you're ready to experience a new level of support, let’s begin.