Anyone can benefit from therapy as a process of healing from life’s wounds and learning to more deeply flourish in one’s interests, passions, relationships, and enjoyment of life.
 
While not everyone recognizes or is able to name their own traumatic experiences, many people can more easily notice the effects of trauma in their lives in the form of anxiety, despair, feelings of stuck-ness, shame, powerlessness, dissociation (or numbing out), addiction, physical ailments, familial/relational troubles, intimacy problems, self-esteem issues, and difficulty in tolerating emotional experience. In our natural resilience, we learn ways of coping with trauma that helped us to survive, but these coping mechanisms may no longer be serving us well in our lives today.
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In her work with couples and individuals, Bina utilizes several holistic therapeutic modalities that address mind, body, emotion, relationship, and story. Rather than taking a one-size-fits-all approach to therapy, Bina employs a tailored approach through mutual collaboration between therapist and client(s). Working from a trauma-informed, attachment-based lens, Bina is trained in Emotions Focused Therapy (EFT), Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Lifespan Integration (LI), Trauma-Informed Narrative Therapy, and Relationally Focused Psychodynamic Therapy. Bina engages Interpersonal Neurobiology, Polyvagal Theory, Inner-Child, Internal Family Systems, Enneagram, and Mindful Self Compassion work.
 
Bina draws on her experience as a woman of color, a child of South Asian immigrants, a wife in an inter-racial marriage of two decades, a practicing attorney, an advocate for immigrants and refugees, and her own healing in therapy.
 
If you’d like to schedule a free 15-30 minute consultation with Bina, please visit https://www.shelterwoodcollective.com/practitioners/bina-ellefsen .