VANESSA DURRANT
Welcome to Kindred Tree Healing Center! I am honored that you are considering us to stand alongside you in your healing journey. I believe we are all wired for connection, healing, and growth. I love working with children who are struggling to feel heard and understood-at home, school, or with their peers; because of trauma and anxiety resulting from adoption, foster care, grief, and other painful life experiences. Additionally, I specialize in parenthood/motherhood. I absolutely love working with invested parents who are looking to delve further into attachment informed, positive, and conscious parenting. Because above all things I am a healer, I love working with all populations across the lifespan that are yearning for growth and deeper consciousness.
I'm a licensed psychotherapist, reiki master, yoga teacher, public speaker, and owner of Kindred Tree Healing Center. I have extensive training in play therapy, and other expressive therapies like art, music, and sand-tray. I bring forth over a decade of expertise in the areas of child development, parenting, trauma, and attachment issues. ​
My style is a mix of modern science and ancient wisdom. I deeply love connecting with others on a profound level and staying up to date on the latest brain-based ways of healing. I am an avid researcher and truly love blending evidence-based western therapies with eastern ancient healing modalities like Ayurveda, Yoga, and Reiki. I also strongly believe in walking my talk, and personally engaging with all the healing work I also provide my patients. I felt the urge to be a healer since I can remember. By the time I was 3 years old I felt a deep calling to help others and do my part to make the world a better place. I've dedicated my whole life to developing myself as a person capable of this. ​
I have thousands of hours of training from top professionals in the field of mental health and developmental psychology:
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Trauma Focused and Integrative Play Therapy
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Sandtray and Expressive Art therapies
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Music Psychotherapy-The Bonny Method of Guided Imagery and Music, advanced level 3 therapist
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Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
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Infant and Maternal Mental Health
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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
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Energy Psychology
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Circle of Security Intervention and Attachment Classification and Coding
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Circle of Security Parenting Group Intervention
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Circles of the Self Projective Psychological Assessment
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Positive Parenting and Concsious Parenting
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Mindfulness, Relational health and client centered therapies
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Advanced Restorative Reiki and Reiki Master/Teacher in the Usui Method of Reiki
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Shamanic Healing
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Trauma Informed Yoga and Ashtanga, Children's, and Restorative Yoga
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Ayurveda
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Plant spirit medicine, herbalism, and clinical aromatherapy
Professional Memberships and Affiliations:
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National Association of Social Workers
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Association for Play Therapy
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Association for Music and Imagery
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The Foundation for Shamanic Studies
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International Association of Reiki Professionals
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Yoga Alliance
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EMDR International Association