Stacy Vitale, LMFT - Clinical Therapist
Come join us with Stacy Vitale, LMFT, for an integration session to explore basic skills to decrease anxiety and process subconscious emotional responses that may be activated during these practices.
Why am I so emotional after yoga or breathwork? There is a strong connection between mind and body. Our bodies respond to the way we think, feel, and act.
Yoga releases emotions by breaking up what we call energy blocks. Energy blocks stem from emotions, trauma, and memories. Yoga allows you to let go of tension connected to emotional pain the body has physically been holding onto. While you are regulating your nervous system, you must also regulate your emotions. Our feelings, beliefs, attitudes and spiritual life are closely linked to our physical well being. It is critical to acknowledge your feelings, work through trauma, and strengthen the mind-body connection when it releases the stored emotions.
I was drawn to the helping profession through my passion for relationships,
experiences, and a desire to understand the emotional processes of healing. Life experiences have provided me with an ability to understand common patterns which
affect most people in their journeys. I have a passion for emotional healing that
improves relation and overall quality of daily experiences for individuals and family. I am a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and have been practicing since 2000. I initially started therapeutic services with under-represented minority groups. Focusing
on child and adolescents at risk due to lack of resources, and crisis stabilization. After about 11 years I decided to take time off to stay at home with my children. Being a first time mom gave me new perspectives on mental health with first time mothers, depression and anxiety of being a mom whether it is stay at home or a working mother. This prompted me to re educate myself and get experience with perinatal mood disorders.
More recently I have been working with young adults transitioning into college. Helping with maladaptive internal and interpersonal psychological dynamics. Utilizing cognitive behavioral approaches to encourage clients to focus on thoughts and behaviors and encourage to make changes. I enjoy engaging in therapy with teens, young adults through older adults who have a desire or need for hope and change. Helping people find connection and improve communication is a privilege for me. My goal is to serve others and make a difference as I assist in the navigation of life challenges. Providing
support and deep connections to create opportunities for people to grow, live with greater self awareness, authenticity, gratitude and become autonomous. Always striving to assist in strengthening individuals capacity to tolerate life’s changes. I believe client development and growth comes primarily from ones ability to step into what is uncomfortable. These experiences stretch us and strengthen our capacity to tolerate challenges. With each choice to experience things head on, the psyche becomes more resilient and more capable of the next experience. The opportunities are
to be welcomed, not avoided.