Michele L. Kong

Michele L. Kong

I welcome all aspects of each individual with empathy and compassion. I collaborate with each client on how to best work together to identify patterns, habits, beliefs and blocks which contribute to stress and interfere with feeling fulfillment, satisfaction and joy. I offer deep listening, nuanced observations and stimulating questions such that clients open to new insights, possibilities and ways of being. I facilitate people to come home to themselves, an invitation to re-connect with intrinsic wholeness.

Embracing wholeness is a journey. Some steps along the way will seem light, positive, and empowering, while others will be difficult, dark and challenging. Holding a space to welcome all is a process of building capacity and tolerance for a wider range of experiences. Approaching every behavior as having an important function, I use imagery, creativity, movement and other gentle ways to explore. Informed by decades of combined practice in yoga, Aikido and meditation, mindfulness supports my aims to increase awareness, enrich presence and deepen embodiment.

Those with prior experiences in therapy are drawn to my approaches that support greater body-mind connection and integration. Most clients I see are professionals from diverse backgrounds often working as advocates, creatives, educators, healthcare and healing arts practitioners, as well as in community-based services and social impact organizations.

No matter what difficult events a person experiences, there is an unstoppable aliveness in every individual. I revere such life energy, which is inherently wise, whole and healing. With facilitation guided by openness and loving acceptance, my clients learn to balance stress and vitality as well as grow into greater ease, choices, meaning, purpose and aliveness.

Specialties

• Adults
• Adults abused as children
• Anxiety Disorders
• BIPOC Populations
• Chronic Pain/Fibromyalgia
• Complex PTSD
• Developmental Trauma
• Grief and Loss
• LGBTQIA+
• Medical Procedure Trauma
• Motor Vehicle Collisions
• Relational/Relationship Issues
• Self-Esteem
• Sleep/Insomnia
• Spirituality
• Intergeneration Trauma
• Racial Trauma
• Anti-Oppression Trauma Resolution
• Systemic Trauma
• Sexual Abuse
• Womens’ Issues