Healing Juniper Counseling

Specializing in: Men’s Issues | Relationship Issues | Racial Identity

Sex Positive | Poly & Kink Knowledgeable | LGBTQIA+ Affirming

Offering Telehealth Sessions | Licensed in Washington State

Forest Service photo by Tania C. Parra.

Emotions

Because emotions evolved so much earlier than self-awareness, they are experienced and live in our bodies regardless of whether they are noticed and acknowledged by our minds. Such buried emotions are always buried alive – and like vampires without garlic, they are always clawing to get out.

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Guilt and Shame

Narrative emotion arises in the presence of a story that something is wrong with or about us or our actions. There are two main stories underneath “feeling bad”: the story that “I did something bad” (which results in guilt) and the story that “I am something bad” (which results in shame).

Oppression

Oppression also acts as a story. One of the ways that oppression justifies itself is with the lie that there’s something wrong with the target group itself. This self-shaming is one of the main ways in which those targeted by oppression start to target ourselves.

Services

Individual Trauma Informed Counseling for Adults and Adolescents

I focus on healing, personal growth, and finding peace. My practice offers services tailored to your style and unique story.

Couples and Non-Traditional Relationships

I take a supportive, sex-positive approach in working to improve intimacy and communication while empowering personal growth. 

counselor

Ian K. Hagemann, MSW

I am a Licensed Clinical Social Work Associate, Facilitator, Educator, and Activist who works to help individual adults and adolescents as well as couples move from surviving to thriving in the current, complex world.

As your counselor I will help you determine the differences between strategies and behaviors that have helped you survive in the past, but no longer serve you; and strategies to help you move forward with confidence and agency into the life you want to live.

I am a sex positive counselor with a particular interest and affinity for working in the BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, and Polyamorous, ENM, and Kink Communities.

If you are ready to begin your healing journey contact me.