Unbound Counseling LLC

11/17/2025

🍂 Finding Steady in the Season

Here in West Virginia, November has a way of reminding us to slow down. The air shifts, the light softens, and sometimes our nervous systems need a little help remembering that change can still feel safe.

At Unbound Counseling, we hold space for children, teens, and adults to learn what safety feels like in their own bodies through warmth, curiosity, and connection.

Whether your child is learning to name big feelings, your teen is navigating transitions, or you’re just trying to find your footing again, we’re here to help you build regulation that fits your season of life.

💚 Accepting new clients ages 5 and up
📍 In-person & Telehealth | Morgantown, WV
🌐 unboundcounseling.org/schedule

Because healing doesn’t happen in isolation, it happens in connection, in community, and in the rhythm of place.

11/15/2025

🍂 WV Nervous System Tip: Check the Facts

This time of year in West Virginia can bring a lot: family gatherings, full schedules, and emotions that run higher than the hills.

Before reacting, take a breath and check the facts.

Ask yourself:
1️⃣ What actually happened? (not what my worry says happened)
2️⃣ What am I feeling in my body right now?
3️⃣ Do the facts match how big this emotion feels?

When we check the facts, our nervous system gets a moment to settle.

It’s like pulling off the back road for a second to see where you are, breathe, and get your bearings before driving on.

💚 If your system’s been running on overdrive lately, therapy can help you find your steady again.

📍 Unbound Counseling | Morgantown, WV
🌐 unboundcounseling.org/schedule

11/15/2025

Polyvagal Tip for November:

When daylight fades earlier, your body might register it as threat, not rest.

Try creating small “signals of safety” after sunset—turn on one warm lamp, play a song that reminds you of summer evenings, light a candle or invite someone into shared quiet.

You’re teaching your system that darkness doesn’t always mean danger.

11/14/2025

11/13/2025

Now Accepting New Clients (Ages 6+)

At Unbound Counseling, I work with children, adolescents, and adults navigating anxiety, depression, life transitions, emotional regulation, and relationship challenges.

My goal is to create a safe, supportive space where you can feel heard, understood, and empowered. I believe you are the expert in your own life.

I’m here to help you uncover your strengths, make sense of your experiences, and move toward healing and growth at your own pace.

I use an integrative approach blending Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Person-Centered Therapy, Art Therapy, Mindfulness, and Parts Work — to meet your unique needs.

You don’t have to have it all figured out, just a willingness to begin. 🌱

📍 Serving children (6+), adolescents, and adults across West Virginia — in person & via telehealth
🔗 unboundcounseling.org/schedule

11/12/2025

Our bodies carry stories long after words run out.
Learning what feels safe isn’t about forcing calm. It’s about noticing what helps you settle.

A sound, a ritual, a person, a moment. It's small things that remind your system it’s allowed to rest.

These are your safety cues.
They’re not coping skills.
They’re the ways your body remembers it can trust again.

Try filling these in:

A sound that tells me I’m home now
A ritual that helps me stand down
A person or presence that feels steady
A small action that helps me feel grounded

Safety looks different for everyone. Sometimes it’s a dog at your side, coffee on a porch, or the rhythm of a familiar drive.
It’s not a destination. It’s something your body learns to recognize again.

11/11/2025

Veterans Day reminds us that service doesn’t end when the uniform comes off. It continues in the body’s reflexes, memories, and ways of staying alert.

Years of service train the nervous system to scan for threat, to stay composed, and to push through.

That readiness keeps you alive in uniform. But after the mission ends, that same wiring can make rest, emotion, and connection feel unfamiliar and even unsafe.

And this doesn’t just touch veterans.
Families carry the impact too... the waiting, the worry, the hyper-vigilance that never really shuts off.

Healing belongs to them as well.

To all who have served, and to the families who serve beside them we see your courage, your sacrifice, and your resilience.

Thank you.
🤍 Now accepting new clients
We proudly accept TRICARE and CHAMPVA for veterans, active-duty families, and dependents.

In-person & telehealth options available.
🔗 unboundcounseling.org/contact

Unbound Counseling offers trauma-informed, evidence-based care in Morgantown. Female veteran & spouse owned, we serve individuals, families & communities.

11/10/2025

If November feels heavier in West Virginia, you're not imagining it.
Your nervous system is responding.

When the days get shorter, the temperature drops, and we lose sunlight, movement, and community rhythms, the body shifts long before the mind catches up. We don’t just think the season is different. We feel it in our energy, sleep, mood, and sense of connection.

Here’s what often changes in the nervous system this time of year:
🌓 Less daylight → more fatigue + shutdown
🧊 Cold weather → muscle bracing + pain flare-ups
🚗 Dark rural drives → real vigilance, not imagined anxiety
🏡 More isolation → fewer co-regulation cues
🎄 Holidays → activation of old family nervous system patterns
🌬️ Quiet + stillness → sometimes feels like numbness, not peace

That doesn’t mean you’re unmotivated or “behind.”
It means your body is adapting to fewer cues of safety.

And here’s the hopeful part:
Nervous systems can shift again when we offer them anchors.
Small cues of warmth, movement, rhythm, nature, light, or connection can reopen pathways back to regulation.
We don’t have to “push through,” we can support the body back into safety.

11/06/2025

I’ve always been drawn to the ways we express ourselves. Sometimes that’s through words, and sometimes through play, movement, art, or quiet moments of reflection. Healing doesn’t always come from talking it out. Most often, it starts with being understood right where we are.

As a counselor, I use play and creative approaches with kids to help them make sense of big feelings, build confidence, and feel safe enough to explore their world. With young adults and women, my work often centers around reconnection, to self, to peace, and to what truly matters. Whether that’s through processing transitions, grief, stress, or the weight of trying to do it all.

My approach is gentle, curious, and grounded in meeting each person exactly where they are. There’s no pressure to be “fixed”. There’s just a safe space to grow, at your own pace.

I’m grateful to share that I currently have some openings for new clients:

🎨Children (ages 4+) navigating big emotions or life changes

🌸Women working through anxiety, overwhelm, or grief

💕Moms finding their footing in a new season

🎓 College students managing transitions, stress, or identity changes

✨Individuals seeking to better understand themselves and their relationships

I’m so excited to step into this journey with you and walk alongside you as you grow, heal, and find your way forward.

11/04/2025

Regulate the body first. The mind follows.

One of the most supportive things we can do for ourselves and for the people we care about is to learn how to regulate before a difficult moment happens, not during or after.

When the nervous system is overwhelmed, the thinking brain goes offline. That’s not weakness, that’s biology. Which means breathing, grounding, movement, sensory tools, and body-based skills matter before we need them.

✨ Build the skill when you’re calm
✨ Use the skill when stress shows up
✨ Trust the skill when your thoughts disappear

Preparing your nervous system is not overreacting.

It’s what makes it possible to respond instead of react.

More tools are coming soon.

Unbound Counseling, LLC – Morgantown, WV
Evidence-Based & Trauma-Informed · unboundcounseling.org

11/03/2025

You don’t know until you know.

And once you understand your nervous system, everything starts to make sense.

Most of us spend years thinking something is “wrong” with us and question why we shut down in conversations, panic “out of nowhere,” feel tense for no clear reason, or can’t explain why our body reacts the way it does.

Then one day we learn about the nervous system and suddenly, things click.

It wasn’t weakness.
It wasn’t overreacting.
It wasn’t “being dramatic.”

It was your body protecting you faster than your thoughts could understand.

💡 The nervous system responds first.
🧠 The mind tries to make sense of it later.

And that gap between reaction and understanding can sound like:

🧠 “I know I’m safe, but my body doesn’t feel calm.”
🥺 “I don’t know why I’m like this.”
💬 “Nothing happened, but my body still reacted.”

That’s not a personal flaw.
That’s a nervous system asking for safety.

Polyvagal-informed therapy helps you learn your pathway back to regulation through safety cues.

When you understand how your nervous system works, you stop blaming yourself for the ways you’ve been surviving.

You don’t know until you know.
And once you know, things may finally makes sense.

10/29/2025

Now Accepting a Few New Clients 💛

For much of my life, I lived in a mobilized state, not because I chose to, but because that’s how my nervous system learned to exist.

As a combat veteran, that state of activation became familiar early on. Long before I had language for it, I carried tension in my body that never really let up. It didn’t always look like struggle from the outside, but it showed up everywhere in how I worked, reacted, and even how I endured chronic pain.

When I came across Polyvagal Theory, something finally clicked. My body wasn’t broken or overreactive, it was protecting me. That understanding changed everything.

It also shaped how I now walk alongside others in therapy especially those navigating chronic pain, grief, dysregulation, faith questions, and the weight of “just not feeling like yourself.”

It’s been some time since I’ve opened my schedule, but I’m grateful to share that I now have a few spots available for individual therapy (ages 15+).
Lately, I’ve felt especially called to work with folks who are:
🌿 Living with chronic pain or autoimmune conditions
🌧️ Moving through grief or loss, or trauma in any form
💫 Feeling dysregulated, anxious, or just not quite like yourself
🪞 Navigating relationship struggles or life transitions
🙏 Exploring your faith, spirituality, or relationship with God in an open, grounded way

📍 In-person & telehealth sessions available across West Virginia
🪴 Unbound Counseling, LLC
🔗 www.unboundcounseling.org