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Pursuing Hope Counseling, LLC

🕊️ Religious Trauma & ✨ Neurodivergence
🛋️ Private Practice Consultation & 📚Supervision
🧠 Low Energy Neurofeedback Provider (LENS)

02/17/2026

If I disappear for a few hours,
just assume I’m regulating my nervous system 📖✨

Stories give the brain:
• predictability
• emotional processing
• distance from stress

So yes. Fantasy counts as regulation. 🧠💛

Tag a fellow book therapist 😌

02/10/2026

When you’re in your first year of private practice, everything feels important… which is exactly why nothing feels clear 😶‍🌫️

The Gentle Launch is structured around quarterly themes so you’re not trying to build everything at once - or burning out before you even get steady ✨

🎟️ Tickets on sale at www.Pursuing-Hope.com

02/04/2026

✨ Reminder: Rest is not falling behind.

For nervous systems that have done a lot - rest is the work!

Save this for later 💛

01/30/2026

Some of us didn’t choose emotional labor.
We survived it. 🌿

In families, churches, or systems where love was conditional, many of us learned to read the room, carry the weight, and keep the peace.

Those skills kept us safe once.
They don’t have to define us forever. 💛

Healing is learning we’re allowed to rest, to set boundaries, and to belong without performing. ✨

You’re not broken…you were adaptive.

01/27/2026

📖✨ Sometimes reading is “appropriate dissociation.”

When the nervous system is overwhelmed, stories can offer:
• distance from stress 🌊
• emotional processing without danger
• a sense of control and predictability 🧠

That’s not avoidance.
That’s a regulated nervous system taking a break.

💛 This is one of my favorite low-energy regulation tools.
Save this 📌 if books are part of your survival kit 😌

01/21/2026

🧠✨ Neurodivergent therapists don’t need more discipline - they need different systems.

If your business only works when you’re:
• masking all day 😮‍💨
• over-scheduling 📅
• ignoring your body ⚡
• pushing through burnout 🔥

…that’s not a motivation problem.
That’s a systems problem.

🌱 Neuro-affirming businesses are built around:
• flexible scheduling
• realistic caseloads
• low-friction systems
• nervous-system-friendly workflows

✨ This is a big part of my consulting and supervision work with therapists!

If this resonates 💭, save it 📌 or reach out 📩 - you don’t have to build your practice the hard way.

01/20/2026

✨ What LENS therapy actually feels like

Most people expect it to feel intense or weird.
It doesn’t!

For many clients, a LENS session feels like:
• sitting quietly 🪑
• feeling calmer afterward 🌿
• sleeping better that night 😴
• noticing less reactivity over time (or immediately for some!)⚡

You don’t have to concentrate.
You don’t have to talk.
You don’t have to “do it right.”

🧠 LENS is gentle, low-energy neurofeedback that helps the nervous system regulate itself.

✨ I offer LENS for all ages — including neurodivergent adults, kids, and trauma survivors.
If you’re curious 💭, you’re welcome to reach out 📩 or save this for later 📌.

01/19/2026

✨ Religious trauma isn’t about hating faith.

For many people, it’s about:
• love that was conditional
• fear-based obedience
• shame disguised as morality
• being taught to ignore your own body and intuition

🧠 Your nervous system adapted to survive in that environment.
That adaptation makes sense.

Healing doesn’t require rejecting everything you were taught.
It requires safety, choice, and consent - often for the first time.

💛 This is a core part of my therapy work.
If this resonates 💭, you’re not alone…and you don’t have to explain this here.
Save this 📌 or reach out 📩 if you’d like support.

01/17/2026

🔥 Burnout is not a business strategy.

So many therapists were taught to normalize exhaustion, over-functioning, and self-sacrifice as part of being “ethical.”
That’s not sustainable…and it’s not required!

🧠 Neuro-affirming systems
⚖️ Ethical boundaries
🌱 Sustainable practices

These don’t harm clients - they protect both the therapist and the work.

✨ This is something I talk about often in my business trainings, consulting, and supervision.
If this resonates 💭, save it 📌 or share it with a therapist who needs the reminder 💛

01/16/2026

✨ Introducing The Gentle Launch: Private Practice Year One

A quarterly business + support collective for licensed therapists navigating their first year in private practice — without hustle culture or burnout 💪

Details, dates, and registration are available at www.Pursuing-Hope.com

07/21/2025

Just a little sneak peak of what we’ll be covering this afternoon in our Lunch & Learn: Beyond the Therapy Room, Expand Your Income as a Therapist

Can’t make it? Reach out!

See you at noon friends 🫶

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