Are you ready to get to the root of what has you stuck and unhappy?
You’re in the right place…
My name is Kirsten Juel. I’m a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) and I have been working in the helping field since 2009. I specialize in the family dysfunction of addiction and developmental trauma. My passion is freedom and helping people to have a more compassionate relationship with who they are and the life they live. I’m a therapist but also a fellow traveler.
I spent the first half of my life within the vortex of trauma and addiction and now I’m spending the second half riding the spiral of healing and recovery. I know the courage it takes to genuinely face ourselves and cultivate the humility and compassion needed to recover and grow. I would be honored to support you as you Reclaim what was lost in your effort to survive.
I utilize Compassionate Inquiry, Motivational Interviewing, Somatic awareness, Depth Psychology, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Self-Parenting, and Internal Family Sytems (IFS) to provide a roadmap for the healing journey we will embark on together. My guiding principles are humility, curiosity, and compassion and I will use these values to foster a deep and attuned relationship to hold your pain, vulnerability and radiant, knowing Self.
My favorite people are the outcasts, the misfits, the scapegoats, the weirdos. We have a special role in this wild life, and I’d love to support you as you reclaim your wholeness and belonging.
I believe in your possibility, and I will use my reverence for the human spirit, my intuition, and trust in our relationship, and my extensive training and education to help you to see, understand, and celebrate the preciousness of you and your life experience.
“Our symptoms hold our soul’s deepest desires.”
-Francis Weller
Kirsten Juel, LCSW 85142
Reclaim YourSELF
If you are an adult child from an addicted, violent, emotionally immature or personality disordered home, you had to disconnect from your essence in order to survive. Adult children have learned three rules from their dysfunctional family experience:
Dont Talk
Dont Trust
Dont Feel
In recovery, we get to learn how to break these rules.
We reclaim our:
truth
intuition
courage
power
story
ability to create the life we yearn for
We don’t have to be prisoners of our childhood.
In therapy with me, you will learn to tell your story in a way that makes sense to you, grieve what happened, what should have happened and didn’t, learn to self-parent and meet your needs in a loving and compassionate way, and come to hold yourself and your life with respect and dignity.