Mental Health Wellness
Holistic Counseling
Koru Holistic Counseling believes there is so much more to life then thinking and so much more to therapy then talking. Koru's focus on mental health takes into consideration the whole person, emotional body, mental body, physical body and spiritual body. We are here to serve the collective good and support each individual access a greater sense of well-being. Meeting people as they are, where they are, in their lives. Working with clients to shape individual goals, using explorative and expressive methods. Supporting clients in healing, growth, transformation. Paths to whole self-wellness.
We utilize approaches that explore and connect all aspects of the whole person. We support processing and transforming that which is held and embody new experiences. Physical sensations are noticed as a source of information, in addition to emotions and thoughts. Experiential approaches are interactive, explorative, self-expressive and imaginative in nature.
At Koru, we take a Functional Mental Health approach, looking at root contributions to dis-ease and the unique manifestation of that for each person. All aspects of one's composition (all that makes us uniquely us) are considered. Our internal composition consists of our emotions, beliefs, sensory experiences, memories, behavioral memories, existential experience, subconscious experience and spirit-level consciousness. Our external composition consists of our physical body's functioning, genetics, our environment, our sources of connection and belonging. We believe life wellness is optimized when our internal and external compositions are balanced, as all are interconnected and can impact one another.
We focus on the need for balance and one's overall wellness and encourage integrating a healthy variety of wellness resources to promote optimal mental health and life satisfaction.
We work from a trauma informed lens. We recognize how acute traumatic experiences, developmental attachment wounds, as well as intergenerational and environmental impacts all influence how we construct our experience and our ability to experience whole self wellness.
Koru Holistic Counseling was created from the foundation of interconnection. There are many aspects that make us who we are and what we carry with us has a direct impact on our hearts and minds, bodies and spirits.
Our team at Koru Holistic Counseling is a group of licensed practitioners who specialize in the best counseling methods for our clients.
There is something powerful about participating with others. through our groups we attempt to offer moments of experience, togetherness, growth and transformation.
Koru comes from the Māori language, meaning loop or coil. Koru as a symbol is a spiral based on a unfurling fern frond. Its shape conveys the idea of movement, returning to the point of origin. Many cultures have symbols that loop and coil. Emphasizing the cycles of life. The Koru, along with many other loops and spirals, have a greater meaning that it represents. For the koru it denotes life cycles, new life, growth, strength, peace, connection, and bond between generations
Philosophy characterized by comprehension of the parts of something as intimately interconnected and explicable only by reference to the whole.
Medicine characterized by the treatment of the whole person, taking into account mental and social factors, rather than just the symptoms of a disease.