The Holistic Counseling Center

The Holistic Counseling Center Holistic Counseling Center in Grand Rapids, Michigan

✨So many people walk into therapy believing they’re broken — when really, they’re hurting, overwhelmed, and carrying sto...
11/17/2025

✨So many people walk into therapy believing they’re broken — when really, they’re hurting, overwhelmed, and carrying stories their nervous system never got the chance to unlearn.✨

You didn’t become this way because you’re “too much,” “not enough,” or “unfixable.”

You became this way because your body learned to protect you.

And with safety, compassion, and the right support…you can learn to feel at home in yourself again.

Healing isn’t about fixing you — it’s about remembering you were never broken in the first place.

✨ Save this for the days your inner critic gets loud.
✨ Share it with someone who needs this reminder today.
✨ Tag us if this resonated — we love hearing your stories.

✨ We’re Opening Our Doors in Forest Hills! ✨🎉🎉🎉You’re invited to celebrate the Grand Opening of The Holistic Counseling ...
11/14/2025

✨ We’re Opening Our Doors in Forest Hills! ✨🎉🎉🎉

You’re invited to celebrate the Grand Opening of The Holistic Counseling Center – Cascade Location on December 5th at 5 PM.

Step into a space intentionally designed for healing, connection, and community.

Meet our holistic team, explore our new environment, and be part of a moment that marks the next chapter of integrative mental health care in Grand Rapids.

We can’t wait to welcome you home. 🤍🌿

Will we see you there?

👉 Drop a 🌿 if you’re planning to come & share with a friend!

✨ We’re Opening Our Doors in Forest Hills! ✨🎉🎉🎉You’re invited to celebrate the Grand Opening of The Holistic Counseling ...
11/14/2025

✨ We’re Opening Our Doors in Forest Hills! ✨🎉🎉🎉

You’re invited to celebrate the Grand Opening of The Holistic Counseling Center – Cascade Location on November 28 at 10 AM.

Step into a space intentionally designed for healing, connection, and community.

Meet our holistic team, explore our new environment, and be part of a moment that marks the next chapter of integrative mental health care in Grand Rapids.

We can’t wait to welcome you home. 🤍🌿

Will we see you there?

👉 Drop a 🌿 if you’re planning to come & share with a friend!

✨Every symptom has a story.✨Every pattern has a root.✨Every client carries a history that shaped who they are today.At T...
11/13/2025

✨Every symptom has a story.
✨Every pattern has a root.
✨Every client carries a history that shaped who they are today.

At The Holistic Counseling Center, we don’t rush your healing, label your survival strategies, or pathologize your pain. We honor your story — the whole of it — and help you make sense of the chapters that once felt confusing, chaotic, or overwhelming.

Meaning-making is healing. 🫶

When clients feel safe to tell the truth of what they’ve lived through, the nervous system softens, the brain rewires, and the heart remembers it’s allowed to feel again.

Your story matters.
Your healing matters.
And you never have to walk through it alone. 💚

✨What part of your story are you finally ready to reclaim?

✨It can feel strange when your therapist’s care feels real but your body doesn’t believe it.✨For many of us, early exper...
11/12/2025

✨It can feel strange when your therapist’s care feels real but your body doesn’t believe it.✨

For many of us, early experiences wired us to mistrust safety.
Therapy can bring that to the surface — not because your therapist doesn’t care, but because your nervous system is still learning what safe care feels like.

Healing means allowing genuine connection to feel safe again-slowly, gently, one regulated moment at a time. 💚

If this resonates, save this post as a reminder that your disbelief isn’t brokenness — it’s protection.

With time, safety becomes the new normal. 🌱

✨Healing happens through connection.✨The nervous system learns safety not through isolation—but through presence, eye co...
11/11/2025

✨Healing happens through connection.✨

The nervous system learns safety not through isolation—but through presence, eye contact, tone, and trust.

The same way relationships wounded us, they can also help us repair.

When someone meets you with calm instead of chaos, your body begins to believe:

“Love doesn’t always have to hurt.”
Healing relationships don’t fix you—they help you unlearn protection and relearn regulation. 💚

At The Holistic Counseling Center, we help you reconnect with yourself and others so that safety, peace, and trust become your new baseline.

Schedule a free consultation to begin your healing journey! 🎉

✨Sometimes, even when we want to cry in therapy… the tears just won’t come.✨It doesn’t mean you’re “disconnected” or “no...
11/10/2025

✨Sometimes, even when we want to cry in therapy… the tears just won’t come.✨

It doesn’t mean you’re “disconnected” or “not emotional enough.” It means your body is protecting you — doing what it’s always done to help you feel safe.

Crying in therapy requires trust, regulation, and safety — and your nervous system may still be learning that it’s finally okay to let go.

Healing isn’t about forcing emotion; it’s about helping your body remember that it’s safe to feel.

You don’t have to rush the process. The tears will come when your system feels ready. 🌿

Do you ever struggle to cry in therapy, even when you feel like you want to?
Share your experience below — you’re not alone in this. 💚

✨Ever found yourself saying, “I’m sorry,” after crying in therapy?✨You’re not weak. You’re not overreacting. You’re reme...
11/08/2025

✨Ever found yourself saying, “I’m sorry,” after crying in therapy?✨

You’re not weak. You’re not overreacting. You’re remembering what it feels like to have your emotions witnessed — maybe for the first time.

Apologizing for tears is often a trauma response — a learned protection from years of being told your feelings were too much. In therapy, your body starts to unlearn that story.

It begins to trust that emotion = safe. 🫶

So if you cry in session… don’t rush to apologize.
You’re not breaking down — you’re breaking through.

✨Have you ever caught yourself apologizing for emotions in therapy or relationships? What did that feel like for you?

Let’s normalize emotional release together. 🥰

At The Holistic Counseling Center, healing isn’t one-dimensional — and neither are we. 🌿From trauma therapy and clinical...
11/07/2025

At The Holistic Counseling Center, healing isn’t one-dimensional — and neither are we. 🌿

From trauma therapy and clinical supervision to leadership, mentorship, and visionary expansion — each role I hold is rooted in the same mission: to help people heal deeply, live authentically, and grow holistically.

This isn’t just a practice.
It’s a movement — where therapy meets wellness, where leadership meets heart, and where healing becomes whole.

Join our movement 🌱 and check out our link in our bio 🫶

✨When you’ve lived in chaos long enough, peace can feel unfamiliar — even uncomfortable.✨You might say you want calm, ye...
11/06/2025

✨When you’ve lived in chaos long enough, peace can feel unfamiliar — even uncomfortable.✨

You might say you want calm, yet find yourself drawn to intensity, urgency, or emotional highs and lows.

That’s not because you’re broken.

It’s because your nervous system was wired to survive in instability — and peace feels like foreign territory.

Healing is about re-teaching your body that calm doesn’t mean danger.

It means safety.
It means your system is finally learning to rest.

At The Holistic Counseling Center, we help you unlearn survival mode and reconnect with a sense of grounded, embodied peace — the kind that doesn’t disappear when life gets quiet.

✨ You don’t have to chase chaos to feel alive anymore.
You can feel alive in peace.

✨Healing isn’t just about insight — it’s about embodied experience.✨⠀At The Holistic Counseling Center, we help clients ...
11/05/2025

✨Healing isn’t just about insight — it’s about embodied experience.✨
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At The Holistic Counseling Center, we help clients move beyond “understanding” their trauma into feeling safety in their bodies. Because true healing happens when your body learns what your mind already knows. 🌱
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Through EMDR, Somatic Therapy, IFS, Breathwork, and movement — you can begin to rewire your nervous system for safety, trust, and sustainable change.
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Your story matters. Your body remembers. And healing is possible. 🫶

What’s one practice that helps your body feel safe again? Share below ⬇️

✨Ever caught yourself thinking,“I don’t want my therapist to think I’m crazy”?✨That thought alone holds a whole story.It...
11/04/2025

✨Ever caught yourself thinking,
“I don’t want my therapist to think I’m crazy”?✨

That thought alone holds a whole story.
It’s not vanity or insecurity — it’s your nervous system remembering what it felt like to be judged, shamed, or misunderstood.

When you care what your therapist thinks,
you’re not just reacting to the present moment —
you’re re-experiencing the past conditions of safety and belonging.

Therapy is relational exposure work.
It’s where you learn, slowly and gently, that you can be fully seen — and still loved.
That you can bring your messy, unfiltered parts into the light and still belong.

It’s not weakness to care.
It’s your system testing:
“Can I be safe and connected at the same time?”

That’s not regression — it’s healing. 🌿

Have you ever noticed yourself holding back in therapy?
What do you think that part of you is trying to protect? 💬

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Grand Rapids, MI
49506

Opening Hours

Monday 8:30am - 6pm
Tuesday 8am - 6pm
Wednesday 8am - 6pm
Thursday 8am - 6pm
Friday 8am - 6pm

Telephone

+16162777533

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