Today we’d like to introduce you to Concetta Troskie
Hi Concetta, can you start by introducing yourself? We’d love to learn more about how you got to where you are today?
My journey started from a very personal place, my own healing. Since I was very young, I experienced life very deeply, and felt a lot in my own body. This was sometimes confusing, sometimes wonderful, and often very painful. I share with my clients that feeling deeply can be a superpower and a gift, and it can also feel like a curse and a burden.
Looking back, I have come to understand this kind of sensitivity, not only as an intuitive gift, but also as an integral part of my life’s purpose.
Over the course of my lifetime, I have learned to listen deeply to my body’s innate wisdom. Through survival of traumatic experience and illness, I have turned inwards and have trusted in my nervous systems’ capacity to heal.
This deep commitment to my body’s ability to guide me towards greater healing has always served me well. This is the same commitment that I bring to my clients and to my work as a somatic and psychedelic therapist.
My journey as a therapist is rooted in the listening to my body, and I help my clients discover a path to start listening to their own. The nervous system has a wordless and shapeless logic of its own. The body wants to flow and release what does not serve its highest good. I help my clients remember that their body is a miraculous mystery, and if we know how to listen, it will guide us through our pain.
Working with other nervous systems is a deep honor, and a powerful responsibility. I am blessed at the end of every day when I reflect with gratitude at the humans who entrust an aspect of their well-being to me. This is deeply fulfilling and helps me sleep solid at night.
I’m sure it wasn’t obstacle-free, but would you say the journey has been fairly smooth so far?
Bumpy roads are some of the best teachers and each struggle invites growth.
My path to becoming a somatic therapist has mostly been informed by my own health issues, and by my survival strategy of turning inward and self-reflecting.
Surviving a brain tumor, as well as other health struggles in the past, made me curious about the root causes of illness and dis-ease in the body. How does emotional energy play a role? How about childhood trauma? How do our bodies store our biographies?
These questions made me curious about the physiological nature of emotions and of unprocessed trauma. Why do some of us become imbalanced and what role does the physical body play in all of it?
These questions led me to explore the subconscious, the parts of ourselves that run the show from the shadows; the beliefs we made up as children that created the adult identities we have today.
This subconscious inquiry showed me that talk therapy is limited, and that the Prefrontal Cortex can only allow us to know as much as we need to function in the present moment. So, I began to explore and study modalities like Dance/Movement Therapy, Drama Therapy, EDMR, Somatic Experiencing and Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP).
These are the modalities I use today to help illuminate the unseen parts of my clients that contribute significantly to the way they experience their physical and mental health.
Alright, so let’s switch gears a bit and talk business. What should we know?
Mindfully Embodied is committed to integrating body, spirit, and the subconscious in service of self-awareness, wholeness and balance.
I specialize in somatic and nervous system processing, helping to move and to reframe beliefs and emotions that keep my clients feeling stuck, looping and lost. I integrate expressive arts, developmental parts work, KAP, and embodied intuitive guidance to help my clients move through and release what they have outgrown.
Mindfully Embodied is a service born from my life’s healing journey, and it continues to evolve as I do. I only offer and practice modalities that I have personally experienced and healed from. I work from an empathic understanding that healing takes time and can be confusing and frustrating. It is often easier to be held in a patient, co-regulating space so that healing can be supported with a framework.
My work in KAP is especially exciting to me at this stage of my practice. I approach each KAP session as a sacred journey into the subconscious, a deeply intimate meeting of the self. I have trained in Ketamine Assisted Therapy with the Psychedelic Research and Training Institute and completed a year long certification in Psychedelic Assisted Therapies from Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado. I have experienced the profound healing this work can bring if done ethically, with safety protocols and appropriate clinical training . I practice being an embodied example of what is possible after meeting your darkness with compassion and love.
I tell my KAP clients, “We are going to move through layers of your subconscious beliefs, and help your body move unprocessed energies so that you can live your life from a more present place… I can’t think of anything more sacred than that. “
Alright so before we go can you talk to us a bit about how people can work with you, collaborate with you or support you?
I love working and collaborating with the amazing community in Dallas!
I currently supervise LPC’s in the State of Texas, and dance/movement therapists across the country . In addition to supervising, I teach Somatic Healing workshops internationally. I train clinicians, healthcare workers and facilitators to attend to trauma when it shows up in the room. I have had some amazing experiences sharing this knowledge!
I also work as a consultant for clinicians and facilitators who would like to integrate Ketamine and somatic work into their practice.
I am always open to sharing and growing together in community. I have a few workshops and trainings coming up in Dallas with Breathe Meditation and Wellness, The Dallas Movement Collective, and Embodied Counseling.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://www.mindfullyembodied.org
- Instagram: @mindfullyembodied
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mindfullyembodieddallas/about
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