Hi! I’m Cecelia.

I am passionate about helping people live the life they want to live and feel how they want to feel in their life. We do this together using mindset tools, nervous system regulation, and curious inquiry. I know that enjoying your life, feeling calm and even joyful is available to you.

If you’re ready to start right now, grab a recent workshop replay here on creating momentum.

Personally, I manifest in many ways- partner, mother, coach, sister, friend, daughter, citizen, feminist. I live with my husband and children way downeast Maine on a little bridge-connected island (after spending my first 35 years in cities). It’s beautiful here with the ocean and the wind.

I help my clients make big and small changes in life one step at a time.

No matter what’s happening in your life right now, I know you can feel different. I know that by working with your brain and nervous system, you can feel calm, content, joyful, AND you can still go after the big and small goals in your life (getting there will just feel different).

This process is simple and approachable.

You’re probably thinking- but it won’t work for me. I’ve tried it all or I was recently diagnosed with ADHD or I’m too old. But I promise, if you’re open to it, this work is not only transformative but suited for so many different kinds of people and brains.

What’s in my toolkit?

Western Coaching and Counseling:

I am trained as a mental health counselor and am a certified life coach. My counseling education is from William and Mary and my coaching background is from the Life Coach School. Why counseling AND coaching? We are cognitive beings living in a cognitive world. Many of us process our world and interact with ourselves and others through our words. And the words we use with ourselves are key to how we experience and operate in the world. While deep into yoga, breathing, and Ayurveda, I realized that without skills as a counselor and coach, I could only partially work with people.

LCS has a unique model to help understand our thoughts that I wanted to be able to use with integrity. Counseling provides the tools and theory for processing what may be coming up for you in life. Coaching provides a framework for supporting people from surviving to thriving. From a counseling perspective- I am a person-centered, feminist-based counselor who draws from motivational interviewing, cognitive behavior therapy, and existential therapy.

Note that I am not a licensed counselor and do not accept insurance.

Ayurveda:

I am trained as an Ayurvedic Practitioner. Ayurveda is traditionally taught in an environment closer to a mentor-mentee or apprentice-master relationship. Dr. Anusha Senghal has been my primary teacher. I have worked with Dr. Claudia Welch, Dr. Robert Svoboda, and Dr. Rosy Mann. Ayurveda is a powerful tool for seeing a whole person in their context (e.g. your age, lifestyle, where you live) and working with that person to not only relieve disease but to find balance and help that individual thrive.

For me Ayurveda has provided a blueprint for how I organize my day and year, a way of connecting with myself and my environment, and a method for healing my body. Western medicine is powerful in acute instances but often fails when considering systemic concerns. This is where Ayurveda shines. While I do not practice as an AP, I do use the tools of Ayurveda to help inform helpful lifestyle and dietary changes that might facilitate healing and growth. Depending on your specific imbalances, we may bring Ayurvedic concepts as part of our work together or I may refer you to someone who practices Ayurveda more deeply.

Yoga Therapy, Yoga, and Guided Yoga Nidra:

I am trained as a yoga therapist through Kripalu’s School of Integrated Yoga therapy, am a certified integrative yoga therapist, and am trained as a level-1 iRest Yoga Nidra instructor. More importantly, I have had a daily yoga practice for over a decade and have been practicing for about 15 years. Physical asana, the ethical and moral observations of yoga, breath-work, chanting, and seated meditation have been a big part of my life and a huge part of my own transformation. I fully believe in the power of showing up for yourself on a daily basis in a loving and compassionate way. I also believe that embodiment is key for living in alignment. For me- the physical came first and the compassion grew.

While our sessions may not look like a typical yoga therapy sessions- the tools of yoga and yoga therapy can support you in re-establishing your body-mind connection and working through unhelpful thought and belief patterns. These tools can be powerful for exploring deep-seated beliefs, healing bodily trauma, and exploring your connection to universality, god, or spirit. They provide a direct experience of connection, compassion, and love rather than an intellectualization of these concepts.

Coherent Breathing:

I am trained as a coherent breathing instructor through Breath-Body-Mind and have been practicing daily for 7 years. I see coherent breathing as the fast track to nervous system regulation. In generalized terms, most of us have a vata imbalance and are experiencing chronic stress- from the pandemic, the patriarchy, and life in our modern society. From a physiological perspective, this means our brains may be stuck or spending a lot of time in fight-flight-freeze mode and not a lot of time in rest-digest-connect-create mode. To change that ratio, we need to engage the parasympathetic nervous system and tell our body ‘we are ok in this moment’. We have to recreate a feeling of ease, peace, and safety for ourselves. This is the true aim of self-care (but not what is typically sold to us as self-care).

Our breath is often the most accessible way to re-establish a body-ind connection and have a firsthand experience of peace, ease, and relaxation that vagal nerve toning can provide. Your breath influences your mindset, your digestion, and the entitreity of your health. It sounds simple- breathing- and it is so powerful.