Rajani Venkatraman Levis, MFT, PPS, CTTS
Your individual healing
spreads out into the world in
ever-widening ripples.
About YOU
This isn’t your first foray into seeking happiness and fulfilment. You’ve worked with therapists or other healing professionals, you’ve explored self-psychology or self improvement books and blogs, you know how to succeed at work, but you’re wanting to heal something deeper.
You’re ready to level up in your own inner world, and to bring healing to that which feels unresolved inside. You’re ready to commit to your most authentic life, and you’re looking for an ally to help you discover what that means to YOU!
You want to work with someone who gets that YOU are entirely unique, especially the parts of you that haven’t fully been able to shine through. You’re looking for something just a bit extraordinary, some weekday magic to help you sparkle.
You’re a little nervous but mostly curious what you might discover inside of you that you’ve been waiting to meet your entire life. And you feel open to some support on this journey of self discovery.
If this resonates with you, reach out and let’s have a conversation. I like the initial phone call to just be a chat. This way you can get a feel for what it might be like for us to work together.
About Healing
I believe that healing is happening all the time. Therapy is just a willingness for two people to come together to spend more time paying attention to the healing that’s already occurring. And when we give it so much loving attention, it simply amplifies. It’s almost as simple as that!
Well, not exactly as easy as pie, but with over 2 decades of education and experience, I am here to show you the ropes, until you figure out the details of becoming your own best therapist. Because no one can do it as well as you can, you just need someone to show you the ropes!
Thank You for your commitment to healing and wellness in your own life, which will spread out into the world in ever-widening ripples.
About Me
If you’re like me, you know how challenging it can be to write about yourself, but hey, if we’re going to work together, I want you to know that we have this in common!
I’ve worked with kids, adults, elders, families, couples, individuals in schools, community sites, clinics, hospitals and in private practice. I’ve taken specialized trainings to help folks healing from childhood trauma, recent event traumas, grief and loss. I’m licensed in the profession of Marriage and Family Therapy in California, New Mexico and Washington State. I love the work I do, and am inspired by the beauty and courage of those whom I accompany on this healing journey.
I’m an EMDRIA Approved Consultant in EMDR Therapy and a certified EMDR therapist. I am approved by ATSS as a certified trauma specialist and am also a CAMFT certified supervisor. I have taken Level I, II and III in Deep Brain Reorienting and find it to be extremely valuable in clearing shock in the system.
I have a personal and professional interest in the intersections of trauma with race, class, culture, language, privilege, immigration and other facets of diversity. I love to garden and dabble in creative arts. I’m a writer, counselor-educator and a community builder.
I have presented nationally and internationally to raise the awareness of culturally attunement in EMDR therapy. Featured on Huff Post and the Therapist magazine, I’m a two-time winner of the Psyched “Editor’s Choice Award”. In 2016, I authored the chapter “Placing Culture at the Heart of EMDR therapy” and co-authored (with Laura Siniego) “An Integrative Framework for EMDR Therapy as an Anti-oppression Endeavor” for the Springer book Cultural Competence and Healing Culturally-Based Trauma with EMDR Therapy: Innovative Strategies and Protocols.
About Therapy
Together, our work is about shining a light on the cultural intuition that both You (client) and I (therapist) bring into the room, and how this knowledge allows an honoring of your culture and its own healing traditions. I know this works because each and every client I’ve worked with over the course of over two decades, has taught me through their own healing.
I love to work with individuals who resonate with some of what I’ve shared on these pages. Come work with me, and we will be in a new realm of therapy where the mutuality of the therapeutic relationship is acknowledged and the healing spreads out into the world in ever-widening circles. Your pain and your healing are rendered meaningful in the healing of our community.
Thank You for your commitment to healing and wellness in your own life, which will spread out into the world in ever-widening ripples.
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