creative encounters with the Inner Wild
Thank you for being here. My name is Holly Mae.
My service mission is to support people to develop a loving relationship with their Inner Wild - the wilderness within that is big, pristine & free.
LionSong is both a practice and a website, dedicated in service to our collective paths of healing and awakening to unity consciousness.
In addition to providing holistic, non-clinical counseling and expressive arts therapy, I share ideas, music, and experiential prompts you can use to heal your wounds, explore your creativity, and recover your natural Self.
support for recovering your natural Self
I provide three services through LionSong:
I help with healing, creativity, and embodiment of your natural Self.
I facilitate the Self-reunion process using the practices and mindsets of expressive arts therapy, somatics, IFS/parts work, trauma recovery, and counseling.
about me
This site and its associated services are stewarded by myself, Holly Mae Haddock.
I have an MA in Counseling Psychology and Expressive Arts Therapy. I work as a non-clinical practitioner, providing holistic, creative and spiritual counseling and healing arts play sessions. For more about my scope of practice, please read here. I use my skills to help people heal, play creatively, and embody their natural Self.
I grew up on an organic farm in Lompoc, California. I lived in London, Milan, the SF Bay Area, Detroit, Berlin, San Diego, and Portland before returning home to the Santa Barbara area. I live in town with my husband Didi and my cat Wendy.
qualifications
I earned my Bachelors in Fine Art from UC Berkeley, majoring in Painting. I earned my Masters in Counseling Psychology and Expressive Arts Therapy from California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco.
I have further training in Conflict Resolution, Process Work, Trauma-Informed Expressive Arts Therapy, Internal Family Systems, and Somatics.
I worked for 6 years in a licensure-track psychotherapist role in clinical settings, and 12+ years as a coach, teacher and facilitator in organizations. LionSong is the name under which I offer my healing services for creative people on the awakening path.
creative practices
My main creative practice is folk music, under the name Team Bright. In the past I had a band called Holly Mae and the Painted Room.
For experimental play or healing reasons I occasionally make meditation music, Parts Work pop songs, and singalong chants. I also have a practice of ongoing healing encounters with the Inner Wild through a format I call lionsongs. Lionsongs are improvised folk songs and healing sessions, inside of which different parts of the collective Self and cosmos give voice through song.
I also do improv, dance movement for fun, write poems as medicine, and some visual arts practices off and on.
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