Tania Choi Psychotherapy and Coaching

Beautiful ketamine session with client today it feel like the overflow of the field yesterday. Heart-wrenching session as the body releases and replays horrific physical abuse. So trippy to have her just pop back up and feel more grounded she's ever been the days after. Feel so honored to bear witness.

Big shout out to my newest top fans! 💎
Dawn Cook Cauthen
So thrilled to have you!

Truth.

Like I tell my clients- anxiety, arousal and excitement looks the same on a brain scan. What story do you choose?

As a couples therapist, I’m not one that counsels couples so they stay together no matter what. I set up a container for them to find their highest self and a structure and a configuration that supports that.

CODEPENDENCY vs AUTHENTIC INTIMACY

Codependency: I need you to feel OK or else I'm not ok.

- Authentic Intimacy: I allow you to experience whatever you are experiencing, without needing to change or fix it. You are your own person.

Codependency: I need you to support me and I will guilt you in subtle and not so subtle ways if you don't.

- Authentic Intimacy: I ask for support when I need it from others, not just my partner, and I don't lash out if it's not available in the way I need it.

Codependency: I will blame and shame you for not doing what I want you to do.

- Authentic Intimacy: I accept you as you are while having clear standards around how I will be treated and spoken to.

Codependency: You should know what I need. It's not the same if I have to explain it to you.

- Authentic Intimacy: I communicate openly, and I will never blame you for my lack of courage to share what I want and need.

Codependency: True love is about being loyal no matter what.

- Authentic Intimacy: I have standards and boundaries about how I will be spoken to and treated, and I will clearly express those to you with love.

Codependency: You have a lot of issues, and I'm going to help you. That's where I get my value and worth and sense of being needed.

- Authentic Intimacy: I'm already valuable and worthy. I'm not here to be my partner's therapist, fixer or caretaker.

Codependency: I need you, and you need me.

- Authentic Intimacy: I choose to be with you every day, and you choose to be with me.

Codependency: I can't be without you.

- Authentic Intimacy: I love my alone time. And I love being with you’.

✍️ Serdar Hararovich
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If we change people pleasers to people controllers - it doesn’t sound so good.

How is my psychedelic therapy offering different?
Being trained by the Psychedelic Somatic Institute they offer a more interactive, relational centered protocol that targets dissociation and holds a safe container for pre-verbal, non-verbal, in-utero and implicit memories to emerge.
I chose this training because it is medicine-agnostic and refocusses at the center the therapist-client relationship.
For me personally, in my sessions, it's like having someone "inside" the journey.

Psychedelic Intensives I am medicine agnostic meaning your goals and intention determines the kind of medicine, speed and process in which we craft your experience. I offer the full spectrum of medicine and our discussions inform which one best fits your needs.