Counseling

What is counseling?
What happens in an individual session?
Why could this be useful for me?

Here is the short version…

Life is a beautiful gift AND it is complex and challenging.  You were not given a user’s manual upon birth and you are trying to figure it out as you live your best life.

  • You feel dis-ease in your life in one way or another–on a mental, emotional, or physical level or on all these levels.
 
  • You feel there is more to life than the way you are living and you long for more freedom and passion.
 
  • You want to improve your relationships– with yourself, your partner, your kids, your parents, etc.
 
  • You feel the negative power of addictions and self sabotaging behaviors and you want relief.

Simply, you want to feel better, live better, and enjoy your life!

You find me
and I offer you the following:

Time & Space

Time and space just for you in safety, confidentiality, and respect.

A Safe Place

A container in which to unravel your feelings and thoughts with someone who witnesses and holds space for your process.

Guidance

Guidance to learn to listen to your body and breath so you can reconnect to your inner truth and feelings that are often hard to access. 

Support

Support in recontextualizing your story through understanding how you make meaning and discovering generative and creative ways to understand yourself and your life.

Tools

Tools and psycho-education that will support you in relating to yourself, others, your past, and your future.

Presence

The power of presence and my passion for the power of this work based on my personal experience and training.

Ready to book a free 30 minute discovery session to meet me and see if this is the right path for you?

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Want to know more?

Here’s the long version…

This life is a school and thus is continually teaching us. 
The teachings come in all forms and often get our attention the most when they come in the form of discomfort, disease, confusion, anxiety, depression, dissatisfaction, or other feelings or situations that are painful, complex, or simply not pleasant. 

Often in these moments we are so wrapped up in what we are feeling or experiencing that we forget that Life is a school and that we are here to learn, and instead are very focused on resisting what is present or trying to find quick solutions to provide relief.  

So the first thing that an individual session provides you with is the

simplicity of time and space just for you:

a safe, quiet, confidential container in which to begin
to allow yourself to be with yourself and with your experience.  
Before we continue, I would like to underline just how  powerful and profound it is to simply dedicate time and space to yourself with someone whose focus is to simply listen, witness, and support.

This is sacred time that you have dedicated to yourself and your self-remembrance–and this alone activates the recovery process.

In this container, you have

the space to speak.


To share your thoughts and feelings without needing to be rational or logical and without rules about political, religious, or spiritual correctness.  You have the space to share your version of events and your perspective, and you will learn through the process to give yourself permission to feel whatever you feel. 

This may seem like something you are already doing, but my personal and professional experience tells me otherwise: we cut, censor, limit, judge, and silence ourselves to the point that we lose contact with what we really feel, think, and believe.

We become confused and lost and become dependent on family and societal codes, political and spiritual correctness, and any number of other external structures to guide what
we are allowed to feel, think, and perceive.

In order for you to

reconnect to yourself and your feelings and perceptions, we use body awareness and breath.

I will guide you again and again to return to your bodily sensations so that your body can guide you back to yourself and to what is true for you.

You will learn to observe your patterns of breath for information about what you are feeling, as well as learn to use your breath consciously to feel more deeply into parts of your body and being that have been lost, forgotten, or banished.

You will also have the space to slowly feel into new states of being in a way that is respectful to the nervous system and does not create a stress response.

As you become ever more connected to yourself you will naturally

begin a process of  recontextualization: redefining and giving new meaning to your story.

And this brings us back to the original premise that Life is a school with a specifically designed curriculum to teach you exactly what you need to remember who you are, reclaim your Truth, and return your Essence.

And thus you can  begin to retell your story as a story of healing and remembrance in which every person, place, event, situation, feeling–everything–is serving you.

You can start to write your story in real time,

becoming a co-author with Life itself.

You can learn to move in the Flow – living a life with more authenticity, freedom to be yourself, and ease.
As our fundamental perspective on life changes, we begin to live more in joy and gratitude and can truly enjoy the process along the way, even through the complexities and challenges.

Through this process here are some examples
of what you will have the possibility to acquire:

  • Increased capacity to feel yourself and know what is true for you

  • Increased somatic awareness and an experiential understanding of why this is vital

  • Increased awareness about how events or situations in your past are affecting you now and how to work with this awareness

  • Experiential understanding of what self-care means and support in how to incorporate it into your everyday life

  • Increased awareness into how you make meaning and why

  • Skills to communicate your needs and desires and understanding about your difficulties with this

  • Awareness about your personal boundaries and limits (or lack thereof) and how to work with them

  • Understanding about the inner judge and how to work with it in your life

  • Increased awareness what really lights you up and makes you excited

  • And whatever else Life has on the curriculum for you!

Ready to book a free 30 minute discovery session to meet me and see if this is the right path for you?

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KIND WORDS

“This sun keeps on shining.”

“Thanks to Sheila I discovered Yoga. But not just Yoga.
She’s a real support to me and a very gentle yoga teacher with all her strength.
When I feel fragile or tired I’m sometimes too lazy to come to the yoga lessons, but I definitely feel better once I have gone to her class. She makes me feel stronger in my mind and soul as well in my body. I’m very grateful to have met her one sunny day in the park. Thank you Sheila.”
Mini Neyses
Practicing yoga with Sheila has been and continues to be a discovery of myself. It is beautiful to discover who we are with our weaknesses and insecurities but also our strengths, which we often don’t realize. We just need to stop…breathe…and discover who you are, if you want, and if you don’t want to now, then you will do it another day, it doesn’t matter. But it is completely natural, it comes with the practice. Since I began practicing yoga with Sheila I feel more woman, more mother, more wife, more daughter, more sister, more friend….because at last, I feel myself. Thank you Sheila!
Beatrice Graziani
A powerful and invincible energy lives in us: the power of thought. Other energies support it: emotions, encounters. The universe listens, and responds. You arrived: powerful, passionate, delicate, prepared. You observe, you listen…..you found me. Your knowledge awakens my heart and banishes my fears. Your words are a path and a refuge. My experience with you and the group reinforce in me the will to push myself beyond and re-find those parts of me still vibrating in mental cages and the inner judge. And so I thank you, I thank me, I thank my fellow travelers…the road is long but together it is simpler.
Laura Crecenzi
If I think of my yoga practice with Sheila, I feel I have undertaken a journey. A journey that has brought me, and that is still leading me now, to know, to touch, and sometimes imagine new possibilities and openings for myself. Thanks to the practice of yoga and the loving presence and always competent and respectful guidance from Sheila, I feel my body flexible, sinuous, harmonious, strong and determined–like my will power. It is a journey that is allowing me to feel and see and learn to harmonize the various facets of myself, also those parts that are the most painful that have finally been welcomed. Sheila helps me and offers me tools to remain present, to re-find my center when I lose myself, to live ever more in the here and now…..with a loving and compassionate gaze towards the past and with love and trust for myself and what is yet to come.
Laura Rausa
We all know the benefits of yoga, but the benefits of yoga with Sheila is something more. I began this practice after a challenging surgical intervention. My back and my muscles had been badly damaged. Thanks to this beautiful practice, I am recovering elasticity and flexibility. Beyond the physical benefits, I have also gained an incredible psychological wellness. During the day I am distracted by a thousand thoughts and thanks to the tools I have learned with Sheila, in the evening all it takes are some simple practices/rituals and the tensions and negative thoughts disappear. With Sheila we work with visualization and feeling sensations. Through these practices I have learned to handle any sensations or feelings that my body sends me, welcoming them without judgement. Thanks to Sheila I have found a beautiful inner harmony. She has become a refuge: a tranquil palace where anxiety, sadness, and pain remain outside. Thank you.
Nicoletta Pagnotta
Practicing yoga with Sheila is one of the most beautiful gifts I have given to myself. Accompanied by her loving and attentive presence, I have learned to enter into deep listening of my body and let go of mental control. Practicing yoga with Sheila is to offer a prayer to the divine that lives inside of us and to the divine in all of its manifestations.
Marina Casasole
We all know the benefits of yoga, but the benefits of yoga with Sheila is something more. I began this practice after a challenging surgical intervention. My back and my muscles had been badly damaged. Thanks to this beautiful practice, I am recovering elasticity and flexibility. Beyond the physical benefits, I have also gained an incredible psychological wellness. During the day I am distracted by a thousand thoughts and thanks to the tools I have learned with Sheila, in the evening all it takes are some simple practices/rituals and the tensions and negative thoughts disappear. With Sheila we work with visualization and feeling sensations. Through these practices I have learned to handle any sensations or feelings that my body sends me, welcoming them without judgement. Thanks to Sheila I have found a beautiful inner harmony. She has become a refuge: a tranquil palace where anxiety, sadness, and pain remain outside. Thank you.
Nicoletta Pagnotta
I am forever grateful Sheila, that our paths crossed, when I joined your yoga classes years ago. Since then I have attended many of your retreats and now rely on you as a teacher and guide on my path. I deeply appreciate your compassion and empathy, your sound advice and your precious gift, to always show me the positive side of any situation. You are a solid and unfailing support with a big open heart and humor when you least expect it, just to take the sting out of it. I have so much trust in you Sheila, with you I am in a safe space where I can show my true self, break down and continue stronger than before. You help me nurture my soul, you are the wise woman I wish to become one day. I appreciate the sessions with you enormously, they help me to grow and be myself and to get to know me better and with you there is so much trust, understanding and connection.
Marianne Koller
Thank you so much for everything, for the transcendent experience of yoga that you make me live in every one of your lessons in your yoga room where time is projected into an interdimensional space-time. I am immensely grateful to you!
Roberto Basilli
Sheila, my body says thank you, for you showing me a few tricks on how to take care of it, softly (sometimes intensively too!) with respect and acceptance. My mind thanks you, for that weekly moment of wandering in a more peaceful pace, in a space a little bit wider than usual. My feminity thanks you, for the reconnection slowly happening, and I thank you too! For all of the above, and also for the sacred space you create each time for us all to share (it’s precious), the inspiring words and the intentions you set which always feel so spot on, and for the crystal sound you play sometimes at the end of the class (I don’t know what it does, but it does it seriously!) I love your class!
Celine Vuagniaux
A unique journey through movement with a touch of nurturing words to guide you to your inner SELF. Sheila is an incredible being, who offers more than just yoga, but a sense of belonging....
Krista Perrod
Sheila's yoga classes represent for me not only a great course to follow, but also an important moment of connection with myself, experienced joyfully together with others. Sheila is a wonderful person and a very efficient teacher. She puts all her passion and expertise into her classes. She has conveyed to me the love for yoga and the desire to challenge myself, seeing the results achieved in a short time and, above all, the mind-body benefits that derive from it. Her classes are special because she always adds something extra, a personal touch with decorations, music, and fragrant essences. What I appreciate so much is her dedication and professionalism in preparing her lessons, creating a unique atmosphere each time that makes me feel at home. Her eye is attentive and vigilant in correcting postures. I feel very fortunate to have a teacher like her.
Cristina Martinucci

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