Shyamaa M. Creaven, PH.D. Certified Gestalt Therapist
PSYCHOTHERAPY, SUPERVISION, TRAINING, AND COACHING
Supporting the courage, resiliency, and agency to live a creative, counter-cultural, deeply embodied life – on purpose
Mental Wellbeing
Anxiety, post-traumatic stress, psychoeducation
Spiritual Wholeness
Loss or lack of existential meaning, existential crisis, spiritual and religious integration
Resiliency in Transition
Major life transitions, grief and despair, fertility issues and loss
What is a friendly universe?
Theoretical physicist Albert Einstein felt that the fundamental question each person must ask in their innermost depths is whether they believe the universe is ultimately a friendly place. He believed that when one could trust in the fundamental friendliness of the universe, a more reverent and personally empowered way of living this life would be cultivated.
The world isn’t always a friendly place. Life may well be a delicate and relentless balance between suffering and joy, cruelty and benevolence, and danger and safety. This can be anchored through ongoing experiences of a kind of radical yet optimistic trust in oneself, a friendly universe, and a personal sense of the Sacred.
About Shyamaa Marie Creaven
Shyamaa Marie Creaven is a licensed professional counselor, a certified gestalt therapist, and a trauma specialist who delivers spiritually-integrated and inter-religious psychotherapy.
Her teaching and doctoral work emphasized post-trauma resilience, inter-religious competency, and the friendliness of the universe at the level of creativity, adaptability, and the relative agency of each person within the givens of their unique contexts. She offers gestalt therapy, EMDR, somatic psychotherapy, and mindfulness-based counseling, coaching, and spiritual care.
“I intend to meet you in a cocreative therapy where my experience (human and educational) can meet your unique intelligence, broken and brilliant experiences, and life goals so that you may (re)discover the friendliness of this universe and live your life on purpose.”
How do we live our lives on purpose?
Actively choose life every day.
Take responsibility for your choices.
Work out the kinks through self-awareness, reflection, and honesty.
Say “yes” to judicious risk and entertain challenges as opportunities.
Engage in activities that develop your character.
Cultivate relationship with what you deem to be Sacred.
Question dominant narratives and listen for the other story.
Host the possibility that the universe is, for the most part, friendly.
“Change comes about when you become what you are, not when you try to become what you are not.” –Arnold Beisser
