About Us
At Body • Spirit • Mind and Trusting Konnections, we believe healing happens when the body, mind, and spirit are supported together in a safe, trusting environment.
Our trauma-informed therapists help individuals, couples, and families navigate life’s challenges, build resilience, and reconnect with their authentic selves.
The Journey Behind Body • Spirit • Mind
My healing journey began in 2007 following a significant life transition that left me emotionally depleted, anxious, depressed, and deeply disconnected from my sense of self.
Determined to reclaim my life from the inside out, I began exercising several days each week. As I moved my body, long-suppressed emotions began to surface. Physical movement awakened emotional truth, leading me to psychotherapy, meditation, and deeper personal work.
Over time, I devoted myself to understanding attachment, trauma, emotional regulation, nervous-system health, family systems, personality development, and the profound connection between mind and body. I explored concepts such as the false self, validation, empathy, trauma responses, and the patterns that shape how we experience ourselves and our relationships.
Through volunteering and community involvement, I discovered a calling to help others navigate their own healing journeys and pursued a career in Social Work.
By 2017, I had experienced deep integration. Movement, meditation, emotional processing, spiritual exploration, healthy boundaries, nutrition, restorative habits, and meaningful connection helped rebuild my life piece by piece. My identity strengthened, my voice returned, my nervous system settled, and my purpose became clear.
What restored my own life became the foundation of Body • Spirit • Mind. The framework emerged from the understanding that lasting healing requires caring for the whole person — body, spirit, and mind working together in harmony.
The Body • Spirit • Mind Framework
Developed through the founder's own healing journey, the Body • Spirit • Mind framework integrates body-based awareness, spiritual connection, and therapeutic insight to support lasting healing and personal transformation.
Body
Movement, breathwork, somatic grounding, and nervous-system awareness.
Spirit
Meditation, inner-child connection, intuitive wisdom, and meaning-making.
Mind
Psychotherapy, trauma processing, emotional regulation, and personal growth.
Trusting Konnections
Before meaningful transformation can occur, people need safety. They need trust, authenticity, consistency, and dependable support.
Through my own healing journey, I came to understand that Body • Spirit • Mind transformation cannot fully occur without a secure foundation of human connection. Healing requires relationships where people feel seen, heard, valued, and emotionally safe.
This belief led to the creation of Trusting Konnections in 2021 — a therapeutic space intentionally designed to foster trust, connection, and belonging as the gateway to deeper healing.
Today, Trusting Konnections and Body • Spirit • Mind work together to provide compassionate, trauma-informed care that helps clients reconnect with themselves, release old patterns, strengthen resilience, and cultivate lives rooted in purpose and authenticity.
Our Approach
We integrate evidence-based therapy with a holistic understanding of emotional, physical, relational, and spiritual well-being.
Trauma & PTSD
Anxiety & Depression
Relationship Challenges
Life Transitions
Attachment & Family Dynamics
Emotional Regulation
Self-Esteem & Personal Growth
Family & Couples Support
Our Team & Philosophy
Our team of dedicated professionals is carefully selected not only for their clinical expertise, but also for their alignment with the values that shaped the foundation of this practice.
We believe healing flourishes through authenticity, empathy, emotional safety, trauma-informed care, nervous-system awareness, and meaningful human connection. These principles guide every aspect of our work with clients.
Together, we integrate evidence-based interventions with a holistic understanding of healing, recognizing that emotional, physical, relational, and spiritual well-being are deeply interconnected.
Our goal is to help clients reconnect with their true selves, release patterns that no longer serve them, develop healthier relationships, and create lives grounded in purpose, resilience, and lasting transformation.
Evidence-Based Therapies
Our team integrates a range of evidence-based and trauma-informed approaches tailored to each client’s needs.
These approaches may include Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), EMDR, Internal Family Systems (IFS), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), IMAGO Couples Therapy, Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT), Inner Child Work, and other evidence-based modalities selected to support each client's unique goals and healing journey.
Our Locations
With offices in Ann Arbor and Southfield, we provide accessible, compassionate counseling services to individuals, couples, and families throughout Southeast Michigan.
