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Licensed Therapist & Nature-based Guide

Holistic Guidance Along Your Unfolding Path

 

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Alia Stewart-Silver, LCSW

Are You Hearing the Call?

We Are Living in Unprecedented Times.

Things within and without are changing quickly. Many are feeling overwhelmed, grief-stricken, stuck, or uncertain about what is being asked now and what lies ahead. I believe that we find ourselves in a moment of immense crisis but also one of profound opportunity. Are you hearing the call?

I believe that each of us has a unique role to play in these pivotal times, which we can uncover with loving support and a reorientation toward what truly matters. As we come to know and heal ourselves, we can then build a life rooted in deeper meaning, larger purpose, healthy connections, values-aligned purpose, and boundless gratitude.

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Are you ready to heed the call toward growing a more soulful and purposeful life?

Are you seeking an accountability partner to help you stay committed to your values and vision?

Is it time to heal past wounds, reauthor old stories, and update ways of being that no longer serve you?

Are you ready to increase your confidence, deepen your love, and reclaim your healthy power in order to step into the next chapter of your unfolding story?

About My Practice

Free Discovery Call

Life Purpose Discovery

Do you yearn to lead a meaningful and purposeful life? Is your day-to-day life lacking the vibrancy that you know it could have? Is something calling you forward but you don’t know what it is or how to step toward it?

I believe that each of us has a purpose to live into that fulfills us personally while also supporting the well-being of our loved ones and the world at large. We are part of an interconnected web of life and so it makes sense that all beings would be happier and healthier when we are thriving individually. I draw upon narrative therapy, somatic practices, earth-based wisdom, and expressive arts to help you uncover and embody your true calling.

Intimacy and Partnership Support

Does your heart ache for deeper love and closer connection? Are you seeking or trying to build a partnership that truly nourishes you and supports your healing, rather than detracts or competes with it? Do you have a sense that more intimacy is not only possible, but is actively calling you forward?

Humans are deeply relational beings, called to deep and transformative love. I weave together my background in attachment theory, mindfulness practices, somatic awareness, restorative justice, and earth-based ritual to support you in cultivating relationships built upon the solid foundation of deep love, self-respect, and authentic interpersonal exchange.

Resiliency and Capacity-Building

Are you ready to feel more solid ground and peace within yourself? Are you trying to treat yourself with more self-love and unconditional acceptance? Are you working to heal past traumas and whole yourself from past wounds?

These efforts of personal healing and wholing are foundational to cultivating internal resilience and capacity. When we begin with healing ourselves, we are able to then offer more of ourselves to our loved ones and the world at large without it depleting our own emotional reserves. When we come from a place of internal resilience and capacity, we’re able to ride the waves of external change with less reactivity and resistance because we can always return to the solid ground we’ve built within.

Integration Therapy

Have you had a life-altering experience that you haven’t fully processed yet? Be it a trauma, the death of a loved one, a separation, a wilderness ceremony, a psychedelic journey, or a near-death experience, such potent experiences in life must be fully processed in order to harvest the full lessons, strengths, and ultimately gifts. 

I want to be a collaborative partner with you in processing and making meaning of these past experiences. By utilizing a trauma-informed therapeutic approach that combines integration tools from soul guiding and reauthoring practices from narrative therapy, I can help you reveal the deeper meanings found hidden in even your most traumatic stories and experiences of being human.

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Soul Rooted Counseling

Soul Rooted Counseling is an approach to healing that sees each of us as having a unique essence, or soul, that is the seed of our true nature striving to express itself like a flower in bloom. Just like an actual seed, our soul requires the conditions of our life to offer an environment of safety, light, warmth, and nutrients in order to move from survival to blossoming. In our soulful blossoming, we fill a unique niche in the ecosystems of our families, communities, and the more-than-human world that is ours alone to occupy as an unapologetic and even joyful gift.

I strive to offer my loving presence and extensive healing background to the revelation and cultivation of this essential nature within you, by helping you build an internal and external landscape that supports the sprouting and rooting of the unique seed that lies dormant within you. To do this, I will support you to uncover your soul gifts, address past wounds that are keeping you trapped in old stories and patterns, identify the deepest values that give you a sense of solid ground, and affirm your inner guidance system as a compass directing your sacred path forward one step at a time.

Online counseling sessions for ease & convenience
I provide online counseling sessions so that you can say yes to working together without the logistical stress or scheduling constraints that come from meeting together in person. This means that we are able to meet together from the comfort of your home or during a break in your workday. It is my hope that our healing work together can add immediate value to your life rather than cause additional complication or difficulty. Because we meet together via Zoom, a HIPAA-compliant video-conferencing technology, you can rest assured that your private information will remain safe and confidential.
Free no-commitment 20-minute Discovery Call
I offer a free 20-minute Discovery Call to all new clients in order to make sure that all questions have been answered and that we both feel good about entering into a healing partnership together. This initial discovery session is offered via Zoom or over the phone as a way to make first contact with one another as real people. I look forward to connecting with you in this way, without any expectation or obligation of continued therapeutic work together.
Professionally licensed in three states
I hold an active therapy license in good standing across three states (California, Colorado, and Virginia), which allows me to work with a wide range of individuals across the nation. I’m licensed as a LCSW (Licensed Clinical Social Worker), which permits me to offer psychological services and run a private practice such as this one.

I obtained my MSW (Master’s of Social Work) from UC Berkeley in 2014 and then worked for three years in community-based nonprofit settings to accrue all the necessary clinical and supervisory hours to be eligible for licensure. In 2017, I passed California’s two state licensing exams, and over the past two years I have successfully transferred my therapeutic license to Virginia and Colorado in order to expand my practice to a wider range of individuals across the country.

Accepts Insurance from over 15 companies
UnitedHealthcare
Oxford Health Plans
Aetna
UMR
UHC Student Resources
AllSavers UHC
Harvard Pilgrim
Meritain
Nippon
United Healthcare Shared Services
Allied Benefit Systems – Aetna
Surest (Formerly Bind)
Health Plans Inc.
UnitedHealthcare Global
Christian Brothers Services – Aetna
Trustmark Health Benefits – Aetna
Trustmark Small Business Benefits – Aetna
Health Scope – Aetna
Online scheduling for easy bookings and cancelations
I understand that life can be busy and that things can change! That’s why it’s important to me to make scheduling our time together as simple, flexible, and self-directed as possible. All clients are given access to my online calendar, which allows you to confidentially schedule an appointment with me based on the frequency of your choice, as well as to cancel an existing appointment up to 48 hours beforehand without any cancelation fee. I hope that this platform provides ease, flexibility, and self-directed healing in your life and schedule!
Sliding scale and reduced counseling package rates to meet financial needs
In an effort to value inclusivity and offer healing support to those in need, I offer a sliding scale range for my services to reach a wider spectrum of people. I also offer counseling packages of 4, 6, or 8 sessions, which can be purchased at a reduced hourly rate in order to incentive investment in our therapeutic work together. These rates will be provided to potential clients following an initial Discovery Call together or inquiries can be made at soulrooted@protonmail.com.

 

HIPAA-compliant technology use
We live in a time when our private information is not always kept private, and so I want you to know that I will only use HIPAA-compliant video-conferencing and data storage technologies when conducting or documenting our therapeutic work together. This is especially important to me because in order to do truly healing work together, we must trust that we are safe and that our most sensitive information won’t be used in a way that we didn’t intend or consent to.

To be extra mindful, I also use an encrypted email address (soulrooted@protonmail.com) and encrypted phone number (434-218-0731) to make sure that I’m doing everything in my power to respect and maintain the privacy of your personal information. 

Individual and couples counseling
In addition to being trained to provide 1:1 Individual Counseling, I am also equipped to provide holistic Counseling Support for partnerships who are in need of additional guidance and support. Drawing upon my diverse training in psychotherapy, nonviolent communication, and restorative justice harm repair, I support the cultivation and practice of more authentic and mindful communication within the partnership.

Serving as a neutral third party witness, I support both members of the partnership to feel heard and validated in their experience. From this place of open-hearted listening, I amplify efforts to identify and move toward strategies and goals within the partnership for increased clarity and mutual understanding.

 

My Story...

I was born in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, where I spent my earliest years getting lost in the woods with my three brothers and sister. I experienced a deep sense of wild belonging with the living earth and my family who loved me deeply and instilled core values of who I am today. This innocence was shattered through experiencing childhood trauma when five years old, followed by moving  into the city and beginning public school when I was six years old. These interactions with modern society exposed me for the first time to the pain and violation, stress and disconnection so common in our mainstream society and world. These early childhood experiences of entering society as an outsider helped  sensitive me to the pain of a world out of balance. These experiences led me to work toward justice from a very young age, trying to bring more safety and belonging to my middle school and then high school. My commitment to social justice deepened in college and graduate school when I studied the systems in place that perpetuate injustice and trauma, as well as models of individual and community healing and resilience that we can learn from and grow toward.

After graduate school, I worked for several years providing individual, group, and family therapy to some of California’s most vulnerable communities and became licensed as a therapist in 2017. During this time, I also became trained as a Restorative Justice Circle-Keeper and began exploring earth-based healing practices. In 2018, I left my career in CA to take a leap of faith into the next chapter of my own adventure story that included meeting my now husband in the mountains of Colorado, building two off-grid tiny homes as members of a 15-person community farm for three years, and starting my own therapeutic private practice. Over this time, I have also become trained as a nature-based ceremonial guide, permaculture and regenerative agriculture, energy healing, and practiced group facilitation in various community settings across the country. I feel blessed to be exactly where I am along my unfolding path, humbly weaving together the diverse threads of my training background and lived experience into a sacred set of offerings for my people. My people are all those who feel a seed of possibility stirring in their hearts and minds, calling them forward along their unfolding paths toward a life and world far more beautiful and redemptive than we can fully imagine.

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Testimonials

“I have been waiting for this. Working with Alia was an answer to my prayers.”

“I am so grateful to have discovered a modality that is congruent with my ongoing empowerment, regeneration and grounded lived experience“

“I feel like an entirely changed person.”

My Approach to Healing

Holistic Approach to Wellness

I will support your healing journey from a whole-person perspective that acknowledges the mind-body connection. I will help you reflect upon both internal and external causes for your suffering and empowerment, helping you identify and take steps in your life that create more internal peace, well-being, and a values-aligned life.

Strengths-based Empowerment

I will act as a mirror that can help you see and know yourself more fully, including the unique gifts and unacknowledged strengths that you may often overlook in yourself. I will celebrate your efforts and help you map out steps in your life that can lead to building more and more confidence, ease, and empowerment.

Trauma-informed Care

I will always use a trauma-informed lens to support healing & wholing. If not held within a strong and loving container, the very act of processing past trauma can itself cause harm. Because of this, I will use a gentle and attuned approach to assist you in exploring past wounds so that integration and healing are possible.

Tell Your Story. Whole Yourself. Uncover Your Gifts. Take a Risk for Healing!

I'm Ready!
I believe that holistic counseling can support profound healing by providing the time and space to engage in the essential tasks of untangling unhealthy patterns of limiting beliefs and harmful actions, orienting toward one’s internal compass of core values and wisdom, identifying the next steps of bringing vision into form, cultivating self-love and radical self-acceptance, and exercising the courage needed to shine light on the internal shadows that are ready to be integrated into a more healed and whole version of the ever-evolving self.

As a healing practitioner, I believe in the power of partnering with you in this work, in order to collaboratively uncover your core gifts, honor your most tender wounds, build a life rooted in your soul values, and decide together how best to draw upon the wide-ranging tools and practices that I am equipped with to respond to your soul’s call for deeper meaning and larger purpose. 

What Are You Waiting For?

Say Yes to What’s Calling.

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