Trauma Specialist
Certified EMDR Clinician
Psychedelic Assisted Therapy (PSI)
Somatic Experiencing Practioner (SEP)
Certified Accelerated Resolution Therapist
www.taniachoi.com
I'm not in the business of instigating change. I am in the delicate and complex work of allowing and empowering it. Because I feel that ultimately, YOU have the wisdom and the power to bring about the changes you need; Because change is YOUR work and your choice, my role is to set the stage, in some instances empty it, explore what stands in the way, discover with you all the options and possibilities for change. Ultimately, you decide. The fact that you are here already ensures it. My job is to notice it, observe it, reflect it, and honor it. In this space, I have seen amazing change happen. Holding you Tenderly, Tania
Trauma Treated Tenderly
My first psychedelic experience was catalysted by a client that I had seen since she was 15 years old.
As a now young adult in her 20s, she said
" I am going to do mushrooms and I want you to be my guide." As someone who had never done drugs as a teen, smoked or even drank much alcohol, I was horrified.
For her, I entered my first psychedelic container. To that client, I owe a lifetime of healing in merely 2 years.
As a guarded, defended, high-functioning Singaporean-born Asian, medicine did for me what a decade of talk and even somatic therapy couldn't do. After wrestling through several containers, it broke down my somatic defenses and enabled me to engage in the simple task of asking for help.
My first sessions were about negotiating self-sufficiency, dependency, trust, relying on my therapist and group containers; and believing that healing and joy ( not just hard work and struggle )was my birthright.
Because of my experience, I highly recommend medicine as the ideal modality for those who have impenetrable issues of control, dependency, attachment and trust.
Many guides are not therapists, and many therapists are not medicine travelers so I can speak from the unique experience of being both a client and a medicine therapist; that the presence of a resourced container and a trusted sojourner is a game changer.
It would be my honor to walk this journey with you.
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TRAINING
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MFT Santa Clara University
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Process Therapy training
(1 year mirror training) at Process Therapy Institute
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EMDR training Pt 1 and Pt 2
( Phil Mansfield Supervisor )
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EMDR pt 3 Laurel Parnell Advanced EMDR training
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Robert Miller Feeling State Protocol FSAT
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Advanced Training for FSAT
( EMDR for addictions and compulsions )
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Supervision/ Consultation:
Phil Mansfield, Harriet Sage
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EMDRIA consultant in training
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Certified Accelerated Resolution Therapy Basic, Advanced and Certified
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Flash Technique
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Hedy Schleiffer- Couples Imago therapy
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Somatic Experiencing
( Level 1-3)
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Psychedelic Somatic Institute
( PSI )
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Touch Skills for Therapist ( Kathy Kain )
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Somatica Institute