Creative Psychotherapy
A Creative and collaborative approach to psychotherapy
"Your vision will become clear
only when you can look into your own heart.
Who looks outside, dreams
Who looks inside, awakens."
Carl Jung
PHONE
(360) 951-2691
Fax: (360) 489-0010
arenes@comcast.net
LOCATION
By appointment only.
Mailing address: PO Box 11835, Olympia WA 98508
HOURS
Monday and Wednesday 9:00 AM - 2:00 PM
Thursday and Friday 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Therapeutic Orientation and Philosophy
Welcome
Angelina Renes uses an integrative approach that draws on a range of psychological models and eastern-based philosophy in order to provide treatment that is tailored to each unique individual or couple. She includes the whole person - as mind/body/spirit - within the context of family, culture, and social environment. She welcomes her clients as active participants in their therapy.
She is flexible in her approach, choosing treatment methods that best fit your situation including your; age and life-stage, religion or non-religious status, ethnicity, social class, sexual orientation, national or non-national status, indigenous background, and gender amongst other considerations.
Angelina brings over forty years of eastern-based study and meditation to her work. She teaches mindfulness-based approaches that focus on here-and-now experience of life. You will learn tools that continue to benefit you after therapy is over. She sees healing in psychotherapy as a route to insight and personal growth. In addition to her credentials and experience as a psychotherapist, Angelina has studied Integral Theory for two decades, and she has solid national and international working experience with diversity and culture.
“This is important work and your comfort and safety are important to me. So please don’t hesitate to ask questions or express concerns as we enter into this work together.”
Modalities
Buddhist and Existentially Informed Psychotherapies
Integral Psychology
Humanistic
Depth Psychotherapy
EMDR
Mindfulness
Transparent Communication
Credentials
Masters in Psychology Counseling
Licensed Mental Health Counselor, WA
National Certified Counselor
Certified Spiritual Director, SDI
Professional Memberships
National Board of Certified Counselors
Washington Mental Health Counselors Association
American Mental Health Counselors Association
Spiritual Directors International
What is Spiritual Direction?
Spiritual Directors International defines spiritual direction as follows:
"Spiritual direction explores a deeper relationship with the spiritual aspect of being human. Simply put, spiritual direction is helping people tell their sacred stories everyday.
Spiritual direction has emerged in many contexts using language specific to particular cultural and spiritual traditions. Describing spiritual direction requires putting words to a process of fostering a transcendent experience that lies beyond all names and yet the experience longs to be articulated and made concrete in everyday living. It is easier to describe what spiritual direction does than what spiritual direction is. Our role is not to define spiritual direction, but to describe the experience.
Spiritual direction helps us learn how to live in peace, with compassion, promoting justice, as humble servants of that which lies beyond all names."
Liz Budd Ellmann, MDiv, Executive Director, Spiritual Directors International
Eastern-Philosophy Spiritual Director
I am a Certified Spiritual Director and a member of Spiritual Directors International. My training began over forty years ago when I embarked on an inner and an outer journey to Asia to know God. My journey has continued into different faith traditions in many and varied ways but I am most informed by Eastern-Philosophy. I completed my Spiritual Director training at the St Placid Priory, a women’s Benedictine monastic community in Lacey, WA in 2009.
My background includes forty years of eastern-based study, meditation, and spiritual practice in the tradition of the great Siddhas of India. I have studied Integral Theory for over twenty years and I have a solid international working experience with diversity and culture. In addition to my work as a spiritual director and my ongoing personal spiritual practice, study, and contemplation, I work as a nationally certified psychotherapist in private practice in Olympia, WA.
Spiritual Directors International defines Eastern-Philosophy Spiritual Direction as follows:
"To live one’s life in union with the Divine and to realize the freedom of one’s highest Self…founded on the understanding that God lives within the hearts of each of us and of all creation…
Through deep listening, powerful questions, and reflection of the thoughts and feelings conveyed by the directee, spiritual direction provides an opportunity to regularly reflect on life’s events and circumstances from a spiritual perspective.
Spiritual practices, including spiritual direction, have the ability to expand one’s inner awareness where stillness, peace, happiness, and joy reside; meditation, contemplation, chanting, or hatha yoga may be offered as tools to support the directee in experiencing God in every moment of this sacred dance called life.
With grace, self-effort, and the support of a spiritual director, directees can fully awaken to their inner divinity and express their true natures of love, compassion, and service in their everyday lives."
I am truly honored to support and witness you in your spiritual formation. And I sincerely welcome you to this wonderful work!
Dollmaking Workshops
Making art can facilitate healing. When it involves creating human form, rich in symbols, meaning, and personal history, the healing process can be an extremely powerful one. The safe and sacred space created within the workshop will allow you to explore a wide range of possibilities and to see and integrate your own strengths and solutions.
Dolls play a role in almost every culture. Dolls and puppets have been used for, amongst other things; cultural dissemination and folklore; ritual magic, healing and spells; good luck: entertainment and diversion; carrying on traditions and educating using story telling; acting out moral and religious stories; and child's play as well as female enculturation.
Angelina's Doll-making workshops offer hands-on instruction and therapeutic group process designed to gain insight into personal, emotional, and spiritual experiences. Absolutely no art experience is necessary and making the doll is facilitated as a step-by-step process at a comfortable pace.
MEDITATION WORKSHOPS
We all have expectations and assumptions about what meditation is and who can do it.
Much of the art of meditation is in allowing it to be as it is. Just as we have different personalities and learning styles that are both shared and unique, we also have tendencies towards inner experience in meditation that are both shared and unique. Participating in a workshop will help you learn to recognize your own personal signals allowing you to move more easily enter into your inner world.
Angelina has over four decades of meditation experience, training and practice. Her meditation workshops are held in a comfortable space within a supportive group setting. You will be taught a range of traditional Eastern-based techniques, which will allow you to find one(s) that work for you.
Angelina's workshops will help you open into the deeply restorative experience of meditation. They are open to people of all faith traditions. No prior meditation experience is necessary.
Upcoming workshop dates and information will be posted to this site as it becomes available.
For additional information please contact Angelina at arenes@comcast.net.