Where Pain Ripens Into Power

I help people in existential crisis or chronic physical funks discover the deeper intelligence beneath their troubles—which becomes the guiding force for a meaningful life—through Jungian psychotherapy, nature-based ritual, and embodied practice.

Individual therapy and couples counseling with in person sessions in Austin, Texas and online mentorship worldwide.

REACH OUT
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A woman with long dark hair in a black dress standing barefoot on a dirt path surrounded by dense green foliage in a forest setting.

You are lost in the dark wood of your life

Because you’ve been following everyone else's map.

Your dread and fits of crying, inner critic and loneliness, the symptoms doctors know nothing about—they aren't enemies.

They're bird calls, river sounds, branches breaking—tracks trying to reorient you.

I don’t carry you out.

I help you navigate by listening to the forest itself.

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No one can traverse the forest of your life but you. No one else’s map will do.

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Imagine! Some well-meaning mentor gives a monarch a map of the mega miles it must migrate over multi-generations. The map might even match the course perfectly!

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But it is USELESS to the butterfly, who relies on felt sense and some strange mysterious intelligence.

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You have this too! Buried under other peoples' ideas of you. It’s time to abandon the course you “should” take, and discover the one that turns you on—so much you’d die to fly it.

What am I doing with my life?
Becomes an answerable question.

HERE'S HOW
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Open The Door

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That monster banging on your door is not what it seems…

I get it. You wish there were a magic pill that would make it all go away. Yet every time you sober from whatever gives brief relief, there it is again, knocking angrily. It sounds BIG and vicious. Who wouldn’t turn it away? Pretend to be out? Turn up the music to drown it out?

If that worked you wouldn’t be here.

It works for some! I’m telling you—YOU are the lucky one.

When you open the door, set the table for tea, get to know the “monster”, you’ll see. What it asks for is growth you would never do on your own, but that you need for the life of purpose and power you seek.

It is too scary to open the door alone. Come with me. I’ve answered it. I know.

OPEN THE DOOR
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Hi, I’m Signe. I believe your suffering is a cry from the soul—a gift that beckons you toward the life that is truly yours to live.

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I believe it because I’ve experienced it. I have been initiated into my core power through the alchemy of my pain. The privilege of supporting others in this most meaningful adventure is a blessing I do not take for granted.

MORE ABOUT ME

Ways to Work Together

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Psychotherapy & Mentorship

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Couples Therapy

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Ceremony & Ritual

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Workshops & Groups

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