Integrated Healing Arts Practice
The body knows. . .
The realm of the unconscious has its own language expressed in symbols and sensation. It can include puns, secrets, personal idiosyncrasies. It includes archetypal energy that speaks to us through sleeping and waking dreams, inspiration, synchronicity, epiphanies. When understood, it is a language that resonates with revelation. It is a language of transformation and healing.
Practices include:
Somatic Experiencing * Nervous System Regulation * Somatic Resonance Release & Resource * Support, Counsel & Guidance
Guided Meditation * Active Imagination
I Ching * Tarot * Dreamwork
Embodiment * Grounding *Movement
Chimes * Sound * Song
Creative Expression
“The Sage uses the image of the wanderer to describe the person who is on the path of freeing and bringing to maturity his true self.”
The Cosmic Way
To be embodied is to be at peace.
INDIVIDUAL/SMALL GROUP SESSION DETAILS
At this time, I primarily provide remote individual and small group sessions by phone, and video chat (FaceTime, Skype, Facebook Messenger, Zoom, etc.). Sessions can include counseling, somatic release/nervous system regulation, creative practice, dream work, IChing or Tarot consultation, movement or guided meditation depending on your needs.
Requests for in-person sessions will be considered on a case-by-case basis.
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SUSAN ACKERMAN JOSEPH, mft, sep, PNE, PHP/srt
SOMATIC EXPERIENCING PRACTITIONER
EMBODIMENT SPECIALIST
Integrating Creative and Healing Arts
For Wellness and Personal Development
I am a lifetime wanderer in the realm of the creative experienced through dreams, nature and esoteric practice. My wanderings include becoming certified as a somatic practitioner, studying and training as a psychotherapist, and creating as a multi-media artist (aka SackJo22).
I became a certified somatic practitioner after completing training with Judith Johnson (Psychoneuroenergetics) and Catalina Ureta (Somatic Institute). The training covered a variety of somatic-based modalities including: techniques from Somatic Experiencing (Peter Levine), Point Holding Process developed by John Whitman Ray, somatic resonance and release techniques based on polyvagal theory and nervous system regulation, including innovative techniques for working with the social engagement system (Stanley Rosenberg, Thor Philipsen) . In 2023, I achieved my certification as a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner. Other trainings include, Kathy Kain’s multi-module Touch Skills Training for Online Sessions. I look forward to continuing to learn new skills to share with those I support.
Many years ago, I completed my Master’s Degree in Marriage and Family Therapy (Phillips Graduate Institute) and worked as a clinical associate in different settings. Before completing the licensing process, life sent me in a different direction. And, my training and experience as a psychotherapist enrich what I offer as a somatic practitioner.
My mother introduced me to Tarot and Iching when I was still a youngster. I inherited her books and cards. I have been a diligent student of the IChing, drawing largely on : IChing : The Oracle of the Cosmic Way (2002), C. Anthony and H. Moog; Total I Ching: Myths for Change (2003) S. Karcher; The Toltec IChing (2009) M. Ramirez-Oropreza and W.D. Horden. Recently, I am returning to the Wilhelm translation, which is a classic introduction to the IChing. Over the course of several years, I also worked individually with Lauren Schneider, the creator of Tarotpy which deepened my facility working with symbols and imagery.
As a multi-media artist (sharing my work as SackJo22), I have experience and training in a variety of modalities that find their way into my work: improv theater, music, rhythm, sound, movement, writing, drawing, building. An advocate for sharing culture, I share my voice and music at ccMixter where I have been remixed over 1,200 times; my music appears in thousands of videos. I serve as the site’s Creative Director as part of its admin team.
A frequent collaborator, the seeds of my integrative practice come from creative collaborations with Angela Grillo(artist and Dreamcrafting) andb.r. Etja (artist/dreamworker); together we created and produced conceptual integrative theater as The Reflective Collective and A Crow’s Calling. Some of my notable projects include spearheadingthe White Cube Remix Project an international on-line music event that culminated in a sonic installation at an historic art gallery in Oslo, Norway; creating music and soundscapes for theater; and, releasing my first full length albumSongs of Dreamsin 2018. In 2022, I produced the Ocean Dreams, sonic installation, a collaborative project that brought together recorded whale songs, the voices of dreamers, and musicians to create ocean dream themed music. In 2023, I produced the Dreaming Together Remix Event and Sonic Installation, collaborating with the international music community at mixterplus and the dream community of the International Association for the Study of Dreams to create an immersive soundscape for the annual IASD art show in Ashland, Oregon.