The Beginning.

Where did FeatherLight Counseling come from?

When the world stopped for the pandemic, everyone experienced the variation of responses to trauma. I wasn’t any surer than anyone else out there of what was to come in the upcoming years, but I did want to make the best of it. I’ve always focused my work on trauma responses, this was a skill set I already had and was ready to meet “the new normal”. One of my dreams has been to work for myself and find ways to do things differently, centering people and care despite having a business I rely on to feed myself and my family. FeatherLight Counseling is a step on the way to much larger dreams- never having to turn anyone away from care they need for any reason, especially lack of insurance or funds. I am confident one day that dream will also become reality.

I wanted to find a way to use the time and offer the best possible help I could and to begin making it available to others. I started searching, reading and realized I would be able to take trainings I had only previously dreamed of. Traveling out of state, taking time off, expenses were barriers for me. Suddenly all the things that made new intensive trainings seem out of reach were gone and the trainings suddenly were at my fingertips. It was possible because I was home.

The two areas I had dreamed of were starting to become reality- Play therapy and EMDR. At the very least, I thought, I can be more ready after this transformation in the world “new normal”. So I did it. My children got to test all the interventions just for fun and “help” me to learn. There was a way forward that previously seemed impossible.

So with all the additional training and practice finished, it was time to get started. I reached out to colleagues, accountants, friends, met all kinds of people and with all that feedback, FeatherLight Counseling and Consulting LLC was “born” October 2022.