Bri Kern, MS, LPC
Bri specializes in using somatic therapy techniques to relieve stress, anxiety, hopelessness, depression, recurring/chronic pain caused by emotional imbalance, and any number of issues you may be facing. When we experience stressors, big and small, from an early age we form beliefs about ourselves and the world that not only interfere with our thoughts and feelings, but are also stored at a cellular level and need to be cleared from our body to fully complete the releasing and healing process. These stuck emotions in our mind and body cause us to react to what happens in our daily lives. By clearing these issues on all different levels, we get the clarity and neutrality we need to be able to respond instead of react. Bri has witnessed her clients feel like a miracle has happened where the process of releasing seems too easy after years and years of talk therapy or trying to self-manage.
Bri believes that as whole beings, we cannot separate our mind, body, and emotions if we want true health. These aspects of ourselves are always interacting and compensating with each other. As every person has their unique life stories and modes of operating, every person also requires a unique path to heal and grow, and somatic techniques are incredible and honest tools that can quickly and accurately discover this path.
Bri's goal is to assist her clients in expanding into the person they want to be. She incorporates the wisdom of the body to explore and discover what is interfering in the client's ability to make desired changes. Through this journey, the client is able to find healing and peace in areas most important to them, they can better understand themselves and how they operate, change areas of self-sabotage, and learn to listen to and trust their intuition.
With her Masters in Clinical Counseling and Trauma Studies, Bri specializes in using body work to find relief from stress, anxiety, and depression. In her practice, she gently approaches her clients from a trauma-informed perspective as she believes repeated mini-traumas to be a baseline of understanding distress in each individual. While not everyone experiences "big 'T' Trauma," no one escapes experiencing "little 't' traumas" which also create physical/mental/emotional issues. Significant Trauma as well as little 't' traumas can create negative beliefs, cause unwanted emotions to get stuck in the body, impact how we view ourselves and the world, and cause us significant stress that impacts choices we make on a daily basis.
Bri discovered the power of using the body through her own journey to healing. During her graduate education, she dedicated her time to learning more about the way our bodies, thoughts, and emotions interact, and the way trauma is stored in the body at a cellular level. Since then, she has focused on attending trainings in techniques that emphasize using the body's wisdom to make quick discoveries of the source of emotional distress, and ways to release this distress from the body in order to find contentment in our minds and hearts.