Miya Tischler, She/Her
As a mother and writer, I believe healing happens through connection - to ourselves, to others, and to the natural world that holds us. But for many of us these connections feel impossible to maintain. The painful disconnections of life mold us in ways that we don’t always recognize until much later- when they suddenly become achingly impossible to ignore.
My goal in therapy is to collaborate with clients on their unique healing path and to help them re-touch their aliveness. Therapy is a place where levity, movement, story, and even play can be tools leading to deeper self-recognition and integration. I work with clients to find the safest place to begin this journey- so we develop the readiness to know both the pain and the brilliance our bodies hold.
My path toward becoming a therapist has taken me around the world, delving with humility into multicultural wisdom while returning again and again to the question of how healing happens, and what is really broken. This path has made it impossible to ignore how deeply culture-bound our struggles are and how pervasively impactful our culture is on the self-talk that we do. I support my clients in questioning thought patterns that are not in the best interest of their growth and uncovering parts that need to be heard.
My relational-cultural (RCT) and attachment focused lenses are multiculturally inclusive, body positive, and honor the diversity represented in non-convergent ways of thinking and being. This is combined with a nervous-system informed somatic approach to working with trauma. I also have training in non-directive and directive play therapy, polyvagal-informed yoga, breath-based stress reduction, and TF-CBT.
In my free time (moms laugh here) I can be found writing short fiction, zoning-out under the evening sky, or finding new ways to use chickpeas.