Dynamic trauma integration
Awakening-Informed Trauma Therapy
Expert trauma care tailored to meet your needs as a sensitive and aware human being without bypassing the grueling realities of daily modern life
You've survived. You've coped. You’ve done healing ceremonies and attended therapy. You have integrity in your core values. You may have even built a good life from the outside. But something still feels off. You feel disconnected, dissociated, unsure, compartmentalized, lonely, overwhelmed, not fully alive. I help people cross that threshold — from surviving and being a good person to truly being present. I help people come home to themselves and to all of life.
The gist
When choice, protection, and healthy care is taken away, life becomes threatening and insumountable. That’s complex trauma in a nutshell. Even going to the grocery store can be daunting, let alone living inside your own head. Whatever you have been through, it is not who you are. it can get easier, bit by bit, to face your biggest challenges. In fact, you were built for it. do the deep work needed to not just recognize who you really are at the core, but to fully live from that knowing.
trauma is sneaky and gets clogged in different ways for differnt people.
Any of these sound familiar to you?
Do you get flooded with emotions, bodily experiences, and memories?
is it hard to maintain consistent relationships?
are you trying to come to terms with what happened to you?
have you been healing for a long time and still feel like you aren’t making the changes you want to see?
are there parts of yourself that you would rather not exist?
are you disconnected from people and the environment around you?
is it hard to complete daily tasks on a regular basis?
do you rely a little too much on short term relief with drugs, alcohol, plant medicine, T.V., work, shopping, gambling, or socializing?
Do you have desires and fantasies that you’re affraid to share with others?
Are you having regularly disturbing dreams or difficulty sleeping?
Do you feel like a differnet person in different situations or roles?
Is it hard to tell the differnece between the past, present, and future?
do you get stuck in loops and no matter what you do it’s not good enough?
Do you get overwhelmed and need to recuperate for long periods of time?
do you avoid mirrors and other reminders of your body?
- Love. Artist, Alexander Milov
you are not symptoms.
you are a human being and real healing requires real connection with another human being that can see you at your core.
Message of gratitude from the founder - Sunyata Kopriva
There is very little I haven’t seen, done, or heard about — Good, bad, ugly, and beautiful. I know the most loving and most brutal parts of human nature. I have been shaped by the heartbreaking realities of childhood abuse, relentless trauma, abandonment, poverty, oppression, racism, suicide, homicide, cultural humiliation, and environmental degradation. Pain crosses all boundaries. So does love. Love that is generous, selfless, authentic, and creative. People have cooked me their last few potatoes when I was hungry and shared their twin sized bed that already supported four other people. I’ve opened my heart to all of it and now I want to open to you. All of you.
This work is possible because brave, powerful, and vulnerable people share their lives and stories with me. They open up without knowing what will come of it — exposing their honesty, hospitality, trust, fear, regrets, shame, grief, courage, desperation, and endurance. When real transformation is needed, healing is a leap of faith.
After three decades of working with people, what have I learned? Many who carry the darkest kind of pain choose to become the fiercest examples of real love— they are the true heroes.
To my teachers — those who share their stories, their lives — your life matters to you, to me, and to all beings. This planet needs you now more than ever.
If you are exploring healing, I would be honored to take the leap with you.
Services
I specialize in helping people from different backgrounds cross over from dissociation into presence. This requires having a clear sense of who you are and how the world works. It requires fluidly being in yourself and the world at the same time.
I pick up where a lot of therapy leaves off. I won’t let you stay stuck in a never ending self-improvement loop. We will work closely together to stretch, grow, transform, heal, and discover.
I created Dynamic Trauma Integration and Dynamic Processing Method to help people build presence of four different levels: Me/We/Between/Beyond.
I can support your journey through one-on-one work, relationship work, circles, and professional collaborations.
Welcome home. Welcome to your awakening.
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I offer individual and relationship therapy. All sessions are virtual. Due to licensing, I can only work with people who live in CA, MO, IL, and WA. Dig in deep to the four levels of presence: Me/We/Between/Beyond. Sessions include building awareness of your body/mind/heart, your history, your relationship patterns, and your connection to all of life. l will help you to create lasting changes, not just insight.
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A small group space to practice my Dynamic Processing Method with others. Build awareness and relational attunement skills in real time, in a container that's safe enough to be honest.
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For fellow practitioners, organizations, and communities. Consultation, training, workshops, and partnerships rooted in the view of Dynamic Trauma Integration and the practice of Dynamic Processing Method.
“Thank you! I notice now that I really want to ride the rollercoaster. I was really sad this morning, suffering. It’s so familiar. I know from working with you that I can be free. I am ready.”