The Heart Behind the Practice
For relational, experiential, embodied healing
One of the biggest indicators of your success in therapy is your relationship with your therapist. I encourage clients to search until they find their therapist! Read more below to see if I might be yours.
Meet Rhianon
LCPC, C-DBT, CCTP
You have read the books, attended therapy before, listened to the podcasts, know ALL the coping skills. A proclaimed self-aware king/queen. And yet.... when it's the most inconvenient... your nervous system responds in ways you can't seem to get ahold of. This is where my work begins.
I specialize in working with thoughtful, emotionally intelligent adults who are ready to target patterns, beliefs, or stuck feelings in their bodies. Many of the folks that I work with are emotionally exhausted, chronically disconnected, and stuck in relational patterns, frustrated that they 'know better' but can't seem to feel differently.
My Style
My approach is honest, relational, collaborative, and grounded in trauma-informed modalities like EMDR, attachment-focused work, somatic therapies, and parts work inspired by IFS. I am definitely NOT the therapist who silently nods from the other side of the room after you dump your deepest, darkest secret on me. I am actively engaged, noticing patterns with you, offering feedback, and creating a space where humor, grief, tenderness, anger, curiosity, and growth can all coexist.
The lore
I entered into my college career truly lost in my own unsupported grief. Given the assignment of "interviewing who you want to be", my professor at the time (Shout out Dr. Nesbit) introduced me to the founder of Olivia's House- a York, PA based child grief center. This connection fundamentally changed the course of my life. Once I found the field of psychology, I was right at home.
I found myself being drawn toward those who were the most urgent in their need for care (aka community mental health and residential trauma treatment). I witnessed how profoundly childhood experiences shaped the nervous system, relationships, identity, and a sense of safety in the world. I began gathering tools that were less cognitive based and focused on healing broken or inadequately resourced nervous systems.
My Beliefs
Trauma isn't as simple as one event that was scary. Trauma can be a collection of small terrors that build someone's nervous system, a series of shaping events that paint how someone looks at themselves and the world at large. Sadly, many systems that we depend on perpetuate how these series of small events happen and whom they happen to.
Post-traumatic growth is not something that happens all at once. We heal through safe connection, learning to experience the world around us differently, building a nervous system focused on the present and not the past.
Healing is never something we have "done" or "completed". Instead, healing is an intentional shift towards paths that serve us and others. Healing involves repeated investment, insight, resources, and the privilege of time without repeated traumatic events to process. Healing is a choice that one makes every day, not a destination one arrives at after a significant amount of work.
Outside of the office
When I am not in a session, I love creating art, hiking on local trails with my corgi Ivan, coaching softball, reading obsessively, spending time with my loved ones, and continuing my own therapy and consultation work.
My practice strives to curate an experience of consistency, intention, depth, and genuine care.
If you are looking for a therapist who can hold humor and depth, challenge and compassion, insight and nervous system work- you may be in the right place.
I have a CV of all current certifications, trainings, licensures, and education available upon request.