Alice Andrews, M.A.
I know it can be difficult sometimes to reach out, but if you’re reading this, you may be looking for a therapist to help you (or someone you care about) with grief, anxiety, trauma, depression, and/or career & relationship issues. Or maybe you just need to talk confidentially to an objective party, to someone with a different perspective.
Based in Kerhonkson, NY, I utilize and am informed by many therapies, perspectives, techniques, and modalities, such as: Coherence Therapy, Focusing-oriented Therapy, Somatic Therapy, Evolutionary Psychiatry, Mindfulness & breathwork, Internal Family Systems (IFS), Music & Sound Therapy, Ecopsychology, Hakomi, Brainspotting, and my own modality related to heart-centered focusing.
Contact me at alice@adaptivehealing.org or 845.581.8332. I look forward to hearing from you.
Why I call my practice Integrative Adaptive Therapy
At bottom we are an adapting species. Most of us are born into a complex social niche that is situated in (and constrained) by time and culture: our technologies, sociopolitical-economic realities, the philosophical, ideological, and aesthetic zeitgeists. Given our individual nature and nurture, we do our best to fit the specific niches we find ourselves in.
Often these niches are good-enough fits for us, but sometimes we need a little tweaking (developing skills/gaining new perspectives and tools) to successfully adapt and thrive. I can help with this. Other times, more is needed. Dysfunctional, maladaptive behaviors and thoughts cause unnecessary suffering and unhappiness no matter what one’s niche is. Here we can work together to help you adapt and integrate new learnings, stories, and adaptive strategies.
Sometimes, though, these niches (social, professional) are not good fits for us no matter how much we try to adapt. Part of our work together involves you coming to understand yourself in a new or deeper way — trusting that there are different adaptive responses that are available to you, including changing your niche. See niche-change theory.
Adaptive Healing
Navigating our personal ecosystems is challenging enough, but doing so in a world that is out of balance and in crisis can be destabilizing. Utilizing various modalities, we’ll reconnect you with your inner-compass, your body’s wisdom, and your innate capacity for healing. From this grounded, centered place, you’ll become resourced and resilient, with new-found agency, purpose, and vitality.
I have experience with people who are neurodivergent (including highly sensitive people), as well as those who are relationship diverse.