About Dona
Dona Menz, LCMHCS, LCAS, Rev.
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I am caring, warm and collaborative and will work with you mind, body and spirit to live a peaceful and balanced life. I use a strengths-based, intuitive approach, and my joy is witnessing as your awareness grows and you connect with your passion, purpose and bliss. I will be your greatest advocate and coach, student, and teacher. I work as a team with clients and tailor my sessions to your needs.
I believe connection with Source, who you truly are and who you were born to be, lies waiting for you beyond the challenges you face today. Spiritual seeking and exploration is often the flower of seeds planted by life’s transitions, losses, addiction, depression, anxiety, trauma, low self-esteem, existential questioning, and any challenges you are facing today. |
Whether your seeking is just beginning in your young adult years, coming to a crossroads in midlife or culminating in retirement challenges, I believe this journey is the most important of your lifetime. There is a vibrant, joyful life waiting for you beyond the challenges you face today.
Having been in recovery 16 years from substance addiction and experienced depression and anxiety, my heart is with you during this trying time. It may be difficult to see this from where you are now, but there is Hope. Our true self often nudges us—or shoves us :) in the direction of integration and recognizing our whole, complete perfection.
If your life isn't working the way you had always dreamed, and hardly allowed yourself to imagine, know this—there is another way. If you have a suspicion that there is a better life, but it remains a dream, I am here to walk with you as you make this dream your reality. You are loved. And you are not alone. I look forward to working with you.
Having been in recovery 16 years from substance addiction and experienced depression and anxiety, my heart is with you during this trying time. It may be difficult to see this from where you are now, but there is Hope. Our true self often nudges us—or shoves us :) in the direction of integration and recognizing our whole, complete perfection.
If your life isn't working the way you had always dreamed, and hardly allowed yourself to imagine, know this—there is another way. If you have a suspicion that there is a better life, but it remains a dream, I am here to walk with you as you make this dream your reality. You are loved. And you are not alone. I look forward to working with you.
Areas of Focus
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- Addiction recovery with a 16 years sober therapist with experience in 12 steps and addiction specific treatment in a residential wilderness setting and outpatient recovery education center
- Spiritual Seeking, Exploration and Spiritual Emergency Counseling with an ordained minister and seeker having experienced my own Spiritual opening several years ago who can honor, assist and facilitate you on your journey.
- Meditation and Mindfulness student in the Zen and Dzogchen tradition...this practice will clear, release and shift you onto the path of recognizing the truth of your wholeness and provide peace now
- Advanced Integrative Therapy (AIT) helps you dip deep and transform trauma using your chakra system to move it through the body
- Internal Family Systems (IFS) helps you to tune into your various parts, cultivate understanding and a healthy relationship and develop full awareness of your true nature to dynamically heal the wounded, exiled parts of you to naturally return you to a state of the wholeness and perfection
- EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) that helps process trauma, stuck memories, emotions and negative beliefs with the emergence of insight, changes in memories, and new freedom from old stuck beliefs & habits
- ART - Accelerated Resolution Therapy, works directly to reprogram the way in which distressing memories and images are stored in the brain so that they no longer trigger strong physical and emotional reactions.
- ART is much like EMDR with a strong emphasis on clearing the trauma somatically, using positive imagery and the brain’s natural ability to heal itself - Trauma Resiliency Model (TRM) , a mind-body approach that focuses on the biological (somatic) basis of trauma and the automatic, defensive ways that the human body responds when faced with perceived threats to self and others, including the responses of “tend and befriend”, fight, flight and freeze. Explore and enhance your resiliency and restore balance to your body and the mind after difficult experiences
- Attachment Psychotherapy heals early attachment wounds, rewiring our brains and central nervous system out of old patterns of reactivity and impulsiveness. As adaptive core beliefs fall away, a profound sense of wellness, safety, wholeness and oneness emerges, while deepening our intimacy with others and most importantly with our Self
- Clinical Supervision for counselors, social workers and therapists seeking licensure from a spiritual perspective in their practice, emphasizing Buddhist psychology, mindfulness and meditation and nondualistic approaches to knowing, and teaching our clients to know and experience, how to rest in our natural, clear luminous and boundless heart-minds.
- Intuitive and Angel Therapy provide Intuitive Counseling and Divine connection to facilitate your own Inner Knowing
- Life Coaching, Dream Visioning and Building with a therapist, visioning and small business consultant, and ordained minister trained to help you to remove blocks mind, body and spirit...from addiction to depression to anxiety to spirituality to money to memories stored in your body... and manifest your dreams to Live your best life now
- Ecotherapy with a Wilderness Therapist to guide you in your experience of the transformative power of the wilderness in outdoor sessions and experiential retreats
- Breathwork to get back in your body emotionally and integrate difficult emotions
- Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) and Energy Psychology practices that clear blocked, stagnant emotions and memories using the body's own natural healing meridian system
- Yoga with a practitioner of over 20 years providing one on one integration and groups to facilitate liberation by processing and releasing memories stored in the body
- Reiki Master in the Tibetan, Usui and Karuna tradition
"I am only here to be truly helpful. I am here to represent Him who sent me. I do not have to worry about what to say or what to do, because He Who sent me will direct me. I am content to be wherever He wishes, knowing He goes there with me.
I will be healed as I let Him teach me to heal."
— Excerpted from A Course in Miracles
I will be healed as I let Him teach me to heal."
— Excerpted from A Course in Miracles