YOUR LIFE
IS YOURS
TO CREATE
Connect to yourself. Embody yourself. Express yourself.
MENTAL HEALTH MENTOR AND CONSULTANT:
AN UNCONVENTIONAL APPROACH TO MENTAL HEALTH FOR UNCONVENTIONAL PEOPLE
Hi, I’m Dax-
I’m an unconventional coach and consultant for unconventional people. I help my clients navigate challenges, change, stuckness, and loss- and a way home to themselves. I am particularly drawn to those who think outside of the box, and to those who do not fit inside one either. I don’t believe that there is any one, right way to heal. And I do not believe that life has to be done in any one particular way either. You get to choose. Your life is yours to create.
Far too often, people’s pain is pathologized, which can keep them from being truly seen and heard, and instead, deemed sick and broken- sometimes even beyond repair. This can keep people in a constant state of stuckness, powerlessness, and hopelessness.
However, I believe that human beings have tremendous potential for healing and transformation when they receive safety, connection, kindness, and the permissiveness to be who they truly are. Being witnessed and held with compassion and acceptance is key to healing and transformation- and is of top priority in what I provide for my clients.
Frequently, the weird, wild, and sensitive souls suffer in this world due to the pressure to conform- and then become further marginalized due to the expression of their pain from the judgement and pathologizing that goes along with this expression. You do not have to give up your uniqueness in order to heal. In fact, healing involves expansion and transformation- and during this process, you will most likely uncover more of your gifts and special attributes as you discover your authentic self and begin expressing yourself in truth and in power.
You may have received the message at one time that you are inherently bad or wrong, or screwed up because you think differently, look differently, or express yourself differently than what is accepted as the norm. These messages, especially when received while young, can greatly impact what you believe about yourself. Your beliefs about yourself will shape the way in which you show up for yourself, with others, and in the world. The beliefs you hold about yourself will determine your potential for transformation and ability to thrive.
In order to create new, healthy, life-giving beliefs about ourselves, we often must first have new experiences that support these beliefs. I help bring about these new experiences for my clients with an approach of non-judgement, compassion, and curiosity within a safe container that provides space for them to freely and openly explore, with me by their side as a witness and guide.
I help people meet, connect with, and reclaim the parts of themselves that have been shunned by others, wounded in some way, or that have been suppressed for some reason. Frequently, the work I support my clients in, is in the realm of connecting to self-trust, intuition, creativity, sexuality, joy, and purpose. A unique service that I offer is supporting and equipping people as they taper off of psychiatric medications, not just so they can discontinue their medications, but so that they can thrive through connection, integration, and liberation.
For those who refuse to conform, and desire to transform, their own lives and the world around them, you are in the right place. I look forward to meeting you.
DAX AT A GLANCE
MENTOR AND CONSULTANT FOR:
Identity exploration
Tapering off of psych meds
Stress management
Relationship navigation
Attachment issues
Addiction
Creative stuckness/ expansion
Cultivating Self-trust
Grief processing
Spiritual exploration and transformation
CPTSD Mangement and Healing
Conventional mental health advice, therapy modalities, and treatments didn’t work for me. In fact, some of these things harmed me. So, I got curious and found some things that worked better for me. I now share these things with others.
If you are looking for a different perspective and new options, consider booking a discovery call with me. I function both as a mental health mentor, guiding you into connection with yourself to promote healing- and as a consultant, informing folks about their options. Remember: You get to choose- and you don’t have to go through tough times alone.
Services
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1:1 Coaching
Psych med taper support
Life transition, challenge, or loss, navigation
Identity Exploration
Creative stuckness/ expansion
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1:1 Choice Exploration Consults
For those who are curious about their mental health options- modalities, resources, practitioners, etc…
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Psych Med Tapering Consults for Medical Providers
Innovative approaches and creative options from an ex-psych patient with psych med taper lived experience
HOW I WORK WITH CLIENTS
My clients come to me for a variety of reasons. Sometimes it is because they are feeling fearful, shutdown, overwhelmed, dissatisfied, or directionless. Sometimes they are tapering off of their psychiatric medication or are wanting to start that process. Sometimes they are having relationship problems, experiencing parenting challenges, struggling with addiction, feeling creatively stuck, experiencing grief, or dealing with things around sexuality or gender identity. These experiences can, of course, be challenging, but they are also opportunities to get curious about what is not working for them, to start making some changes, and to eventually create a life that is an expression of who they really are.
We often get disconnected from ourselves due to trauma, shame, protecting ourselves from pain, and through programming from family of origin, religion, culture, and society in general. We can become dissatisfied with our life or feel life to be extraordinarily overwhelming because we are living a life out of alignment with our authentic self.
We can do some of our inner work on our own, but frequently we need someone to help us with this process- to reflect us back to ourselves, to point out our blind spots, offer insight and options, and to help hold our pain, frustration, and confusion. I offer this kind of support and guidance.
I help my clients by guiding them in learning about themselves and helping them navigate challenging, painful, and transitional experiences that often end up being times of transformation and expansion.
I will be there to help you discover your inner knowing, develop self-trust, learn how to feel safe in your body and learn its language, and to cultivate self-leadership. I provide direction and tools as we co-explore your patterns, belief system, and parts of yourself that you have perhaps not yet met, completely accepted, or integrated.
I have a large “tool box” to pull from- to utilize and share from during this process. Among my favorite approaches are: nervous system education and application, body attunement and communication, emotional intelligence education and practice, energy management and alchemy, mindfulness, and parts work of various kinds. There are numerous entry points and modalities we can use to implement these approaches. What we will use for you will be determined by your interest, comfort level, and learning style.
I provide coaching and consults, and occasionally group opportunities. You may check the booking page to see which option suits you best.
Testimonials
One thing you should know about me is that I am not afraid of the dark. I have an aptitude for navigating dark places, and I delight in the strange and mysterious.
It lights me up to walk along side of folks as a guide, sometimes through dark and difficult places, because I know what is on the other side of this challenging process: freedom, relief, transformation, and new life for the brave traveler.
I have gone through a rowdy evolution myself during the last several years. It came with a spiritual emergence, some trauma surfacing for the first time, several diagnoses, ana a very challenging psych med taper. There was a time of breaking down, breaking apart, and then finally, breaking free to create the life that I wanted.
Although I had been successful in several areas of my life in the past, I still consider myself a late bloomer, because my life was not an expression of who I actually was for decades. My life is now much more in alignment with who I am, but I am still evolving and always will be, because that is what happens when we allow life to touch us and open us up to the possibility of what it has to offer and who we can become, and what we can create.
I know how important it is to heal at your own pace and in a way that is unique to your needs, history, functionality, and ways of being. I am happy to meet you where you are. I bring creativity, choice, and a unique perspective to the inner work journey. One of my clients said that I am “tech support for soul energy.” I like that. I'll take it.
I enjoy working with a diverse population. People of all genders, sexualities, ethnicities, races, religions, and spiritualities are welcome to work with me. I am particularly drawn to the misfit, the marginalized, the mystic, the creative, the queer, and all manner of sensitive souls. You are my people.
