Specialized Care: Navigating the Deep End

At Orange Oasis Healing, we don’t treat “symptoms” in isolation. We treat people navigating a world built on systemic harm. My specialties are the areas where my academic research + experience as a Professor, meets my lived experience and clinical training.

If you are dealing with layers of complexity—neurodivergence, systemic trauma, or non-linear recovery—you have found the right sanctuary.

I. Somatic Sanctuary: Sandplay & Focusing

For many of us, the most profound truths cannot be spoken—they must be felt and formed. This category is for the non-linear processor and those with “unspeakable” trauma.

• Sandplay Therapy: We use miniatures and sand to create a physical container for your internal world, allowing your hands to speak what your voice cannot.
• Focusing (Eugene Gendlin): A somatic process of attending to the “felt sense”—that subtle awareness in your body that knows the truth before your mind has named it.
• Trauma-Informed Somatics: Specialized care for PTSD and Complex Trauma, moving beyond “talk therapy” to discharge the survival energy stored in the nervous system.

II. Testimony & Text: The Creative Path

For the writers, the poets, the musicians, and the deep thinkers. We use creativity not as a “hobby,” but as a site of reclamation and regulated resistance.

• Bibliotherapy: Integrating music, lyrics, poetry, and radical texts (Baldwin, Lorde, Thurman) into your healing plan.

• Creative Processing: Using the written word to deconstruct academic “head trash” and rewrite your own narrative of liberation.

• The Prophetic Word: A space for those who find their salvation in the rhythm and the rhyme of their own testimony.

III. Radical Addiction & Recovery (LCADC)

I reject the moralistic, carceral, and shame-based models of addiction. I provide a direct, plain-spoken partnership for those navigating the cycles of dependency.

• Substance Use: Non-carceral, harm-reduction counseling for IV drug use and alcohol.

• Sexual Addiction: Addressing the complexity of sexual behaviors with clinical depth, dignity, and zero judgment.

• Problem Gambling: Specialized support for the financial and emotional cycles of gambling addiction.

• Peer-Centered Care: Prioritizing your safety and your goals over “compliance” with state-mandated standards.

IV. Relational Liberation: Couples & Partnerships

Whether you are in a traditional marriage or a counter-normative structure, we work to dismantle patterns of power and control to build love that is actually free.

• Marriage & Relationship Counseling: For heterosexual and monogamous couples seeking to deepen connection and resolve conflict.

• LGBTQ+ Sanctuary: Expert care for Queer, Non-binary, and Trans/Transmasculine individuals navigating identity and intimacy.

• Kink & Poly Affirming: Explicitly supporting non-traditional relationship structures without pathologizing your desires.

V. Neuro-Liberation: ADHD, Autism, & TBI

As a neurodivergent clinician with lived experience of Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), I specialize in “unmasking” and cognitive reclamation.

• Neuro-Affirming Therapy: We don’t try to make your brain fit into a neurotypical box; we build an oasis that fits your brain.

• Integrated Assessments: Standalone and integrated testing for ADHD and Autism.

• TBI Recovery: Navigating the “before and after” of brain injury with somatic and narrative tools.