True Growth Counseling & Consulting

09/29/2025

Exciting News!

Jillian is now a Certified Somatic Therapy Foundations Practitioner!

Somatic therapy focuses on the mind-body connection. Rather than only exploring thoughts and emotions, somatic work also pays attention to how experiences live in the body. Trauma, stress, and unresolved emotions often show up physically—through tension, tightness, shallow breathing, or even feeling disconnected from your body.

In sessions, somatic experiencing might look like:
✨Guiding you to notice where you feel certain emotions in your body
✨Practicing grounding techniques that help regulate your nervous system
✨Using gentle movement, breathwork, or visualization to release stored tension
✨Learning to listen to your body’s signals as messages, not just symptoms

If you’ve been curious about therapy that moves beyond “just talking,” somatic work can be a powerful addition to your healing journey.

You can learn more about services with Jillian at www.new-growth-consulting.com, or reach out to schedule an appointment today.

07/27/2025

con·text
/ˈkäntekst/
noun
"the circumstances that form the setting for an event, statement, or idea, and in terms of which it can be fully understood and assessed"

There is always more to the story. That's one of my core beliefs.

Context matters—in our reactions, our pain, our behaviors, our boundaries. Our mental health doesn’t exist in a vacuum. It lives in our stories. It lives in the context.

In this week's post, I’m sharing three stories that remind me why we have to look deeper—beyond the behavior, beyond the diagnosis, beyond the first page.

Are you willing to go deeper?

👉 https://www.thecandidcounselorwrites.com/post/where-the-story-lives-the-importance-of-context
📝 "Where the Story Lives: The Importance of Context" is up now on The Candid Counselor.

I'm making a case for why context matters—because without it, we miss the full story. Through three personal and professional examples, I explore how mental health isn’t just a diagnosis or a behavior; it’s shaped by what people carry, what they’ve survived, and what they’ve learned to exp...