Camille Mica PhD, LPC
My background includes offering psychotherapy in both community counseling and private practice settings. In addition, I have worked extensively in consulting and non-profit organizations, accompanying survivors of human trafficking through education, community engagement, outreach, aftercare, and advocacy efforts. I have served as a faculty member of Meridian University teaching graduate psychology and education students in anchor curriculum courses. My educational history includes a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology and Theology, as well as a Doctor of Philosophy in Psychology from Meridian University. My doctoral research focused on liminality (in-between times and spaces). I utilized participatory, arts-based research including poetic and embodied inquiry to study the embodiment of surrender amidst difficult liminal experience. I have completed psychoanalytic training, the 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training at The Yoga Institute, Internal Family Systems (Level 1) training, and have experience in the Discipline of Authentic Movement. My psychological training is further supported by study and interest in spirituality and theology, including contemplative traditions and mysticism, comparative religion, and interfaith/interspiritual movements.
Rather than a series of techniques, I see psychotherapy as an authentic relational endeavor built upon compassionate presence, empathic engagement, openness, and curiosity. Together we witness tender places of distress and wounding so that they may be transformed. We may explore early relationships and experiences from the past to understand their potential impact, while being oriented to the present, and with a vision open toward the future. We consider how various aspects of your life may carry deeper meaning. We explore attitudes, patterns, and relational dynamics that hinder your ability to respond to other people, your circumstances, and your unique life path. I will accompany you amidst challenging life transitions and discernment of your calling, as you seek to live more fully who you are and to give of yourself creatively in the world. The therapy process will hinge upon development of awareness and finding ways to express, deepen into, and learn from experience.
Psychotherapy means tending to the soul; meaning is discovered in the sacred space of deep sharing, expression, attentive listening, imagination, and reverence for mystery. This process involves reflecting upon experiences that reveal areas of strength and fulfillment, vulnerability and darkness – whispers and stirrings of your soul. Therapy will entail inhabiting the disorientation of threshold or liminal experiences, developing one’s capacity to contain intensity and engage complexity. Dreams and the body are especially poignant. I encourage those who are interested to bring their dreams into therapy for illuminating, archetypal exploration opening to the depths of the psyche or the unconscious. Bodily awareness and movement are also points of attention.
Psychotherapy is a journey of mutual impact and learning. It is my honor to witness the unfolding and transformative potential in each person and situation. It has been a gift to walk with people from a variety of backgrounds during times of exploration, suffering, and uncertainty, as they grow in awareness and undergo significant thresholds.
I see individuals and couples from diverse backgrounds, working with an integrative, relational, and depth-oriented approach from a foundation of contemplative and somatic awareness. I draw upon psychoanalytic, Jungian, and Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy. A practice of curiosity, compassion, and radical openness creates a context for a process that can be playful at times, exquisitely sensitive at others – leading us both into new and unknown terrain. Particular areas of emphasis include dream work, embodiment, spirituality, and life transitions. We may incorporate creative expression, movement, story, metaphor and imagination, poetry, and writing in therapy. I welcome artists and creatives as well as those seeking to cultivate their spiritual lives. I also offer Authentic Movement.
… What is greatest about our existence and renders it precious and ineffable also makes very careful use of our painful experiences to enter into our soul.
– Rainer Maria Rilke
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