Lynne Rosen

CONTEXT​

Our dilemmas don’t occur in a vacuum. We are told how we “should” live our lives according to standards that we “should” measure up to, but these requirements may no longer fit with what we most value, or with who we want to become relationally and collectively. We may have different hopes that have gone underground or are waiting to emerge. 

 

COLLABORATION: WORKING WITH OUR STORIES​

Together, in a safe and brave space, we will work on renegotiating your relationship with unhelpful or outdated narratives, patterns, and body experiences. We will unpack socio-political forces that may shape and keep some problems alive. Through an active process we will explore your vision for your life and relationships, and we will mine for skills, creativity, and knowledges that will empower you to take steps toward meaningful change. 

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BEYOND TALK

I have learned from my own journey of healing that some problems can’t be talked away. Memories, sensations, and emotions from traumatic experiences may intrude the present in ways that don’t feel right-sized. It may feel threatening or unsafe to experience what emerges, and in response we might become highly anxious, dissociative, or shut down as a strategy to survive. These strategies deserve to be honored as they may have been life-saving in the past, but they may hold us back from actions and ways of responding that feel aligned with our deepest values. Integrating talk therapy with Somatic Therapies, EMDR Therapy, and Interpersonal Neurobiology into my practice has helped clients reclaim a sense of agency, and a visceral sense of relative-safety and aliveness to better meet the hard and complexity in our worlds

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AREAS OF INTEREST

• Helping people navigate and gain freedom from the effects of abuse and trauma

• Working with artists

• So-called Single Life After 30

• The discovery and expression of eroticism in our lives

• Helping couples (monogamous, polyamorous, or open) and communities explore ways to coordinate relationships that are mutually satisfying and meaningful

• Addressing the insidious effects of racism, heterosexism, economic inequality, and sexism in our lives

• The pressures and politics of managing the competing demands of our work, relationships, and self-care

• Dictates, joys, contradictions, and the messiness of raising and/or mentoring young people 

• Constructing masculinities that support personal and relational wellbeing

• Integrating Narrative Therapy with less linear therapies (EMDR, Somatic, IPNB) both philosophically and practically 

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CONSTRUCTING A PLAN

Early in our work we will come up with a plan you feel will best support movement and change. 

We are all in this together!

Looking forward…

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ABOUT LYNNE

Lynne is a board and faculty member of Re-Authoring Teaching, an international learning community of Narrative Therapy enthusiasts, where she teaches Em-BODY-ing conversations training and consultation groups. For many years Lynne worked as Core Faculty and Director of the Postmodern Therapy Training Program at Phillips Graduate Institute, and as Co-Founder of WPLA (Women’s Project Los Angeles). She continues to enjoy teaching, supervising, and training in many contexts. She is the proud mother of two adult sons, and loves photography, forests, lakes, crunchy leaves, and any athletic endeavor that allows her to feel wind! 
 

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