Expert trauma care tailored to meet your needs as a sensitive, creative, aware human without bypassing daily modern life or your true essence
Don’t buy the lie. Trauma can never touch your true essence - who you really are. Ever. I’m walking the path and I want to walk with you.
The gist
When choice, protection, and care are absent, especially in childhood, life becomes threatening and insurmountable. That’s complex trauma in a nutshell. Even going to the grocery store can be daunting, let alone living inside your own head. Trauma-related dissociation is a way to hide, escape, cope with the ongoing horror inside. Whatever you have been through, it is not who you are. it can get easier, bit by bit, to face your biggest challenges. In fact, you were built for it. do the deep work needed to not just recognize who you really are at the core, but to fully live from that recognition.
You've survived. You've coped. You’ve done healing ceremonies and attended therapy. You have integrity in your core values. You may have even built a good life from the outside. But something still feels off. You feel disconnected, dissociated, unsure, compartmentalized, lonely, overwhelmed, not fully alive. I help people cross that threshold — from surviving and being a good person to truly being present. I help people come home to themselves and to all of life.
Any of these sound familiar to you?
→ Do you have a lot of experiences all at once that you don’t know how to deal with or do you have a lot of blankness and numbness?
→ Is it hard to feel belonging or do you get sucked into others and lose yourself?
→ Do you feel like a different person in different situations or roles?
→ Do you rely a little too much on short term relief with drugs, sex, spiritual practices, alcohol, plant medicine, T.V., work, shopping, gambling, or socializing, but fall short on longer term changes that you crave for yourself?
→ Do you have desires and fantasies that you’re afraid to share with others?
→ Is it hard to tell the difference between the past, present, and future?
→ Do you enjoy big “Ah Ha” discoveries but have difficulty completing daily tasks, or is your life consumed by daily tasks and you can’t seem to find those big “Ah Ha” discoveries?
→ Do you get stuck in loops and no matter what you do it’s not good enough?
Message of gratitude from the founder - Sunyata Kopriva
There is very little I haven’t seen, done, or heard about — Good, bad, ugly, and beautiful. I know the most loving and most brutal parts of human nature. I have been shaped by the heartbreaking realities of childhood abuse, relentless trauma, abandonment, poverty, oppression, racism, suicide, homicide, cultural humiliation, and environmental degradation. Pain crosses all boundaries. So does love. Love that is generous, selfless, authentic, and creative. People have cooked me their last few potatoes when I was hungry and shared their twin sized bed that already supported four other people. I’ve opened my heart to all of it and now I want to open to you. All of you.
This work is possible because brave, powerful, and vulnerable people share their lives and stories with me. They open up without knowing what will come of it — exposing their honesty, hospitality, trust, fear, regrets, shame, grief, courage, desperation, and endurance. When real transformation is needed, healing is a leap of faith.
After three decades of working with people, what have I learned? Many who carry the darkest kind of pain choose to become the fiercest examples of real love— they are the true heroes.
To my teachers — those who share their stories, their lives — your life matters to you, to me, and to all beings. This planet needs you now more than ever.
If you are exploring healing, I would be honored to take the leap with you.
Services
I specialize in helping people from different backgrounds cross over from complex trauma and dissociation into presence. This is one of the hardest things imaginable in the world. I have seen it time and again be possible, but not without letting go of what you know and who you think you are. Complex trauma creates a lot of lies- you’re not worth anything, the world is better off without you, you can’t handle things, you will hurt people, you will never belong, life will always be hard, I have to do what others want, and on and on and on. Dissociation is a natural process that occurs inside in order to find safety- it allows us not to face what we can’t handle facing. Dissociation points to exactly how adaptable, creative, and resilient people are. It is far from a disorder, it is a strength. I can get you through all of this and walk with you as you connect to what is real- your innate wholeness. What’s different about working with me is that I am a specialist in complex trauma, dissociation, and awakening. I know the journey inside and out, and I continue to be devoted to my own journey. The key is that you face your trauma and dissociation as a teacher. Not as something to be healed (although that happens along the way), not as a friend (although you will learn to embody your innate kindness), and not as something broken that needs to be fixed (survivors of trauma are the strongest, most loving, and most real people I know).
I pick up where a lot of therapy leaves off. I won’t let you stay stuck in a never ending self-improvement loop. We will work closely together to stretch, grow, transform, heal, and discover. There will be many gaps along the way, lots of thresholds, and more unknown than you could imagine. You will learn to let go of who you think you are and jump into the abyss of the unknown in order to discover who you actually are. Specializing in complex trauma, dissociation, and awakening means that I am a guide of the unknown. All three require living way more in the unknown compared to the known. You will get used to being lost and dying. Like I said, you can’t discover how you really are if you are also holding on to who you believe yourself to be. Letting go is a holy art, I will guide you.
I created Dynamic Trauma Integration and Dynamic Processing Method to help people build presence of four different levels: Me/We/Between/Beyond. Right now I am doing this through therapy, Processing Labs, and collaborations. As I continue to develop Awakening-Informed Trauma Therapy, I will continue to roll out more and more. Stay tuned and get involved.
Welcome home. Welcome to your awakening.
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I offer individual and relationship therapy. All sessions are virtual. Due to licensing, I can only work with people who live in CA, MO, IL, and WA. Dig in deep to the four levels of presence: Me/We/Between/Beyond. Sessions include building awareness of your body/mind/heart, your history, your relationship patterns, and your connection to all of life. l will help you to create lasting changes, not just insight.
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A small group space to practice my Dynamic Processing Method with others. Build awareness and relational attunement skills in real time, in a container that's safe enough to be honest.
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For fellow practitioners, organizations, and communities. Consultation, training, workshops, and partnerships rooted in the view of Dynamic Trauma Integration and the practice of Dynamic Processing Method.
you are a human being and real healing requires real connection with another human being that can see you at your core.
you are not symptoms. you are not a disorder. i will not pathologize you.
“Thank you! I notice now that I really want to ride the rollercoaster. I was really sad this morning, suffering. It’s so familiar. I know from working with you that I can be free. I am ready.”