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Where your talents and the needs of the world cross; there lies your vocation. - Aristotle Graduating from school and trying to make decisions about paths that “fit” who you are? Or, maybe you are looking to make a career change, enter a new field of work, or rediscover meaning or purpose in daily life during retirement? At SeasonsChange, I offer vocational assessment and coaching to help you make decisions more likely to balance your interests, values, motivational variables, personality, and skills. As we work together, I can help you discover and work with any interior barriers that may threaten to get in the way. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6283b1f79b50e65901a5b356/1653078959064-H9JDBN5SUX0WZHD4TZDZ/unsplash-image-LIxGAvUgCKk.jpg Home - Intimate Relationships/ Marriage “Living with someone we love, with all the joys and challenges, is one of the best ways to grow spiritually. But real awakening only happens in the charnel ground where we acknowledge and work with our wounds, fears, and illusions.” - John Welwood Starting a new life together with your partner can be exciting, and it is also perfectly normal for it to come with some anxieties, insecurities, or adjustments. I offer pre-marital and relationship counseling for individuals and couples, ceremonial services, and special workshops and retreats aimed to strengthen and further build the relationship. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6283b1f79b50e65901a5b356/1653079040512-FFSAC2Y3ZXW2SPXXDXU5/unsplash-image-qVL47qFJNT8.jpg Home - Life After Loss “Embrace your grief. For there, your soul will grow.” – Carl Jung Whether it is the death of a loved one, the end of a significant relationship, unwelcomed job loss, physical loss due to sickness or injury, or the loss of emotional stability following a trauma, the pain can be incredible. While grief is natural, it doesn’t feel normal. Often it leaves us feeling isolated, alone, and distrustful of even ourselves as we find even the day-to-day decisions and self-care difficult to manage. Connecting with others who are experiencing similar loss through supportive one-on-one counseling/coaching or through “Life After Loss” Grief Circles offered in person or online can facilitate supportive connection and healthy grief and healing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6283b1f79b50e65901a5b356/d768e4b8-3655-4c25-9747-31179853ef8d/hands-2906458_1920.jpg Home - End of Life. “This is not the life you pictured, but here you are. You can still make something beautiful. Grieve. Breathe. Begin again!.” - Thema Bryant-Davis One of the more difficult seasons of change is End-of-Life and as a culture, we do not like to think or talk about death. As a result, we often miss the opportunities for a beautiful, sacred, and peaceful transition that comes with making death more conscious. If you’re ready to make pro-active choices about or are experiencing an end of life transition, I welcome a conversation about how I can help provide compassionate care along this season of life. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6283b1f79b50e65901a5b356/37d23e0d-498c-43cf-a515-48a584299fc8/flowers-g09608aeb5_1920.jpg Home - Counseling, Coaching, Facilitating https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6283b1f79b50e65901a5b356/2277d91f-f2f6-4751-9383-37ee19d86073/noah-silliman-_VPhfBO6rqY-unsplash.jpg Home - Educational Opportunities https://www.seasonschange.xyz/offerings daily 0.75 2025-01-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6283b1f79b50e65901a5b356/448da1b1-6cb7-4e6d-9c36-2a644eaa23f2/suzanne-d-williams-VMKBFR6r_jg-unsplash+%282%29.jpg Offerings - Counseling & Heart-Centered Hypnotherapy “When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.” – Viktor Frankl Whether it is having a safe place to share, assistance in uncovering and working through disturbing feelings, or helping reflect on old patterns or behaviors, counseling and hypnotherapy help us find and restore the beauty to what often brings us pain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6283b1f79b50e65901a5b356/781e9456-2ade-406e-bb03-862bc84e0b21/hakon-grimstad-hteXWSF9jA4-unsplash.jpg Offerings - Spiritual Direction / Life Coaching “When you embrace change you will begin to see it as an opportunity for growth.” – Jack Canfield SeasonsChange can help you explore options and come up with a plan, goals, and action steps along you personal or spiritual journey. I can help you learn to integrate what is happening outwardly with what we know or experience to be true inwardly. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6283b1f79b50e65901a5b356/d768e4b8-3655-4c25-9747-31179853ef8d/hands-2906458_1920.jpg Offerings https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6283b1f79b50e65901a5b356/1653334617460-2C4UVFDBHMT72U7NPW6L/unsplash-image-FOi3q9rhM1M.jpg Offerings - Holotropic Breathwork “To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.” – Henri Bergson Holotropic breathwork involves controlling and quickening breathing patterns mixed with evocative music and supportive physical and energetic presence to access your unconscious and influence your mental, emotional, and physical states. It is used both as a self-healing tool for emotional, and relational distress and as a resource for expanding/deepening states of awareness and spiritual transformation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6283b1f79b50e65901a5b356/1653082691496-UP4QXG86H9ASSLSYROWF/unsplash-image-Glxq-p_dsC8.jpg Offerings - Ceremonial Services “That, I think, is the power of ceremony. It marries the mundane to the sacred. The water turns to wine; the coffee to a prayer.” - Robin Wall Kimmerer Personalized and meaningful ceremonies can bring healing, joy, hope, and peace to life transitions, No matter how religious or spiritual you may be, ritualizing is an important part of letting go and embracing the new. I honor where you are at and work with you to design services that are fitting and meaningful for many unique life events including: Renewals of Vows Weddings Divorce Rituals Life Review Living Wakes Death Vigils Funerals, Memorials and Celebrations of Lifeof Life Healing Rituals for Illness, Surgery, Trauma, or Loss Grief Rituals Forgiveness and Letting-Go Rituals Miscarriage and Stillbirth Remembrances https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6283b1f79b50e65901a5b356/1653082851835-LAL1SIPJVVVA37W5OSEE/unsplash-image-n8L1VYaypcw.jpg Offerings - Additional Educational Opportunities Beyond the one-on-one work done with individuals and families, SeasonsChange offers a number of educational workshops/classes, retreats, and other group experiences throughout the year. Contact me for current and future offerings. https://www.seasonschange.xyz/who daily 0.75 2022-08-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6283b1f79b50e65901a5b356/07db7012-baef-4d81-ad46-054ab8db6f9e/professional-photo-of-Lisa.png About - Lisa Semmler, D Min., LPC Certified Holotropic Breathwork Facilitator, Certified Conscious Dying Coach and Educator, Certified End-of-life Doula, and Certified Heart-Centered Hypnotherapist Tobias Keene, D.D.S. Hailing from Richmond, Virginia, Dr. Tobias Keene brings a bit of unabashed Southern hospitality to all his patients. He moved to Washington, D.C. over thirty years ago as a freshman at Ivy College. Right after graduation, he attended World University’s School of Dentistry. Before opening Keene Dental in 1994, he worked for free clinics and some of the finest practices in the District. He is part of the 123 Dental Association and stays up-to-date on the latest dental discoveries. When not striving to keep his patients happy and healthy, he’s enjoys hiking with his family in Rock Creek Park. https://www.seasonschange.xyz/location daily 0.75 2023-06-14 https://www.seasonschange.xyz/end-of-life-doula daily 0.75 2022-12-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec321c2af33de48734cc929/1618497259178-6XJGK9GR6YAVBQL5L519/20140301_Trade-151_012-2.jpg End of Life Doula https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec321c2af33de48734cc929/1607694583486-2PQT0LQ193RL7MCB6DX4/20140228_Trade+151_0046.jpg End of Life Doula https://www.seasonschange.xyz/contact daily 0.75 2023-06-14 https://www.seasonschange.xyz/holotropic daily 0.75 2023-12-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6283b1f79b50e65901a5b356/1670440829221-9JUZJQE7QX0G5UWY1P98/unsplash-image-FOi3q9rhM1M.jpg Holotropic Breathwork - Moving toward wholeness… The name Holotropic means literally “moving toward wholeness” (from the Greek “holos”=whole and “trepein”=moving in the direction of something). Developed by Stanislav Grof, MD, and his late wife Christina, Holotropic Breathwork® is a “powerful approach to self-exploration and personal empowerment that draws on our innate inner wisdom or healer and its capacity to move us toward positive transformation and wholeness.” The goal in this form of breathwork is to acknowledge, access, and support the inner healer within the breather. The theoretical approach of Holotropic Breathwork® draws upon consciousness research, anthropology, various depth psychologies, transpersonal psychology, Eastern spiritual practices, and mystical traditions of the world, As a certified Holotropic Breathwork® facilitator through GTT, I adhere to the Principles of HB as written by Christina Grof and Stanislav Grof and the Ethical Agreements for HB. The process itself is a mix of accelerated breathing and evocative music in a special set and setting. Breathers close their eyes and lie down on a mat as they use their breath and music to take them into a non-ordinary (dream-like) state of consciousness. In this state, the ego takes a back seat, and the natural inner healing process of the individual’s psyche emerges. When this happens, there will often be a particular set of internal experiences that come up related to the breather’s personal journey of healing and transformation. The quality and content of the experience is unique both to the individual and the time and place it is practiced. While recurring themes are common, no two sessions are ever alike. In addition to the internal experience, the process can also include focused energy release work. When the breather is finished with the breathwork, I encourage them to engage in the critical spiritual integration practices such as. mandala drawing, soul collage, and group sharing. Holotropic Breathwork® is often most powerfully done in groups, although individual sessions are also possible. When breathing in a group, people work in pairs and alternate between the roles of “breather” and “sitter.” A sitter’s role is simply to be present and available to assist the breather—not to interfere, interrupt, or try to guide the process. Additionally, while the trained facilitators may assist with energy work when needed or requested, it is his/her role also to simply be present and hold “safe space” for the breather(s). https://www.seasonschange.xyz/counseling-and-heartcentered-hypnotherapy daily 0.75 2022-12-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6283b1f79b50e65901a5b356/448da1b1-6cb7-4e6d-9c36-2a644eaa23f2/suzanne-d-williams-VMKBFR6r_jg-unsplash+%282%29.jpg https://www.seasonschange.xyz/holotropic-workshop daily 0.75 2026-03-11