Pine: to yearn intensely and persistently
Prune /pro͞on/: to reduce, especially by eliminating superfluous matter
Spruce: to tidy up, refresh, enliven
Let’s meet in your/ our vibrancy.
Life is full of transitions.
Together we make them transformative.
Together we make them rich and exciting.
Together we make them playful and nourishing.
Together we make them into days we wouldn’t give up in a million years.
Let’s discover your vibrancy, together.
Collaboration is at the heart of Spruce’s work.
Whether we partner with an organization, a community, or an individual, our vision is a collaboration that creates vibrant, connected living.
With organizations & communities we have…
Created an innovative space-sharing and supportive supervision structure for new therapists called Practice Community
Developed and facilitated pilot programs at the Safe Horizon Streetwork Project
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With individuals we have…
Created personally meaningful rituals to mark important milestones such as births, deaths, and divorce.
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Founder, Anastasia Gochnour
I have enjoyed a career as a psychotherapist and it has been my honor and pleasure to work intimately with many incredible clients over the years. The work I offer now builds upon my therapeutic skills and abilities, while also being distinctly different. Stated most simply, rather than meeting you in your pain, I am committed to meeting you in your pleasure. Even if you are initially motivated to give this a try because you are seeking relief from some measure of anguish, I will gently and steadily work to reintroduce you to the life force that already exists inside you. Our time together will be less concerned with exploring the reasons for your malaise (therapy can be absolutely perfect for this) but instead will be aimed at immediately shifting your experience so that you can quickly feel back into parts of yourself that you have missed — or may have never known.
Through listening closely and developing thoughtful creative experiments, I invite you to become aware of how you relate to yourself and the world. I serve as a facilitator and catalyst – creating opportunities for your familiar ways of feeling and thinking to become destabilized so that your most authentic self can emerge.
By identifying strengths rather than weakness, we can begin to remove the obstacles that make it difficult for you to live with vitality. Many of our choices are creative adjustments to difficult situations and it is only with compassion and understanding that we can experience change. ꕥ