RETURN TO YOUR POWER, TO BALANCE, AND TO PEACE.
COUNSELING, SPEAKING & WRITING, AND ENERGY THERAPIES TO GUIDE YOU BACK TO YOUR BODY, YOUR WISDOM, YOUR JOY.
 

Reconnect with Your wise self

 

Hi, I’m Ren Oberhill, MA, LPC, a Licensed Counselor, Speaker, Writer, and Energy Practitioner in Kalamazoo, MI.

With 19 years of experience working in Higher Education and as a private practice Mental Health Therapist, I bring clinical and experiential understanding, energy practices like EFT Tapping and Qigong, and an attuned awareness to this work. My role is to create a grounded, respectful space where we can slow down, listen deeply, and move forward together. You are the expert on your life and are honored as such. I am a guide who can help you to see your patterns, learn to understand and utilize your gifts, and to listen to your own wisdom. My mission is to help people to learn to manage their energy, prevent burnout, and illuminate patterns needing accountability. Victimhood keeps us experiencing lessons in a loop instead of allowing us to move through the healing spiral. I facilitate your understanding of your talents and strengths and illuminate your agency so you can understand how to operate in grounded balance. I will encourage you to connect to your personal power through the way you manage your energy. In this context, energy can include your thoughts, emotions, habits, behaviors, relationships and environments. The goal of my work is to facilitate the ultimate act of rebellion on a planet with so much duality: for you heal your patterns and experience more joy.

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I create trauma-informed environments where people can feel safe to relax, listen to themselves, and reconnect with their natural capacity to heal—integrating mind, body, and spirit. I offer customized session options and ask for consent during our work to create transparency and collaboration in our healing spaces.

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It's important for everyone to feel connected to the person they ask to assist them with their healing. Here are some of the life situations I have personally experienced: growing up deeply sensitive in a chaotic and high control family of origin, feeling left out and alone, religious pressure, identity confusion, difficulty maintaining stress levels and anxiety, struggles with body image and self esteem, imposter syndrome, people-pleasing, the desire to prove my worth by fixing, saving and rescuing others, reparenting myself, car accidents, surgeries, chronic illness, divorce, alcohol dependency and coping crutches, coparenting struggles, parenting and launching my LGBTQIA+ child, systemic challenges, healing from codependent relationships, finding romantic love after pain, devastating losses, reinventing my career, learning to honor and respect who I am and find people/places that do the same, reclaiming my joy.

 

Some of the people I work with have already done significant inner work. Others are curious to learn about their intuition and want practical skills for connection to their inner knowing. Many people I work with have trouble feeling quiet enough to listen inward, and we work on nervous system calm through practices and play. You don't have to perform, over-analyze or struggle. You are met however you are.

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Is This You?

​These spaces are designed for you if you are interested in any of the following:

• Learn to receive care, listen to your body, and understand and manage your own energy in any environment.

• Receive practical tools and skills to break the patters of thought, emotional weight, and behaviors that weigh you down.

• Talk openly about your experiences, discuss meaning and life purpose, shadow and younger parts work, life after death, intuition, your energy, and your perceptions.

• Focus intentionally on shifting one specific pattern so your nervous system can integrate the work

• Stand firmly in your unique skills and own your personal power without creating long-term dependency on any external source.

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Please note: Our work is a complementary, integrative approach and is not a replacement for psychotherapy, psychiatric care, or Western/Eastern medical treatments. It is designed for individuals who feel mentally resourced and want to explore their repeating patterns in a mind-body-spirit inclusive healing container. 

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How We Work Together

To support meaningful progress with a clear beginning, middle, and end, we choose from a tailored menu of options based on your intention:

• Grounded Clarity: Counseling-informed techniques like Somatic Shadow or Inner Child/Inner Teen Work, combined with holistic tools to help you to calm your nervous system.

• Subconscious Exploration: Exploring narratives using archetypes and themes, mindfulness practices to anchor and ground you, and guided meditations to help with relaxation and visualization.

• Intuition and Expansion: Intuitive development and exploring your unique values, strengths, gifts, meaning, and purpose.

• Energy Management and Nervous System Reset: Learn to manage your own energy so you can slow down and make empowered choices in your life. We engage practices like Mindfulness, Qigong, lymphatic movements, breath work, or EFT Tapping so you can learn to find your peaceful center.

• Mentoring for Helping Professionals and Energy Workers: I love mentoring and assisting helping professionals as we share the same giving hearts. I also teach and practice Reiki, (a Japanese relaxation technique that supports balance) and offer apprenticeships and mentoring for folks who are interested in learning boundaries, giving without self-sacrifice, or learning energy work.​