COME HOME TO YOURSELF.
LIVE THE TRUTH OF WHO YOU ARE.
Releasing what you were taught to be.
AWAKENING TO who you truly are.
I’ve been there too. For years, I struggled with a relentless inner critic, perfectionism, overthinking, over-functioning, overwhelm, and the exhausting habit of contorting to put everyone else’s needs before my own.
I knew a lot about personal growth. I understood my patterns. But knowing better didn’t always translate into doing better or feeling better.
The turning point came when I realized I didn’t need to fix myself. I needed to stop abandoning myself.
Through neuroscience insights I learned that we aren’t actually wired for self-compassion and I could finally forgive myself for “failing" at self-kindness. I started using the way this human system is naturally wired for compassion for OTHERS to begin offering that compassion toward my inner child parts and to my human nervous system doing its job to keep me safe.
I shifted from THINKING about my feelings to growing my capacity to FEEL my experience.
I began learning how to regulate my nervous system, listen to my body, understand my adaptive and protective parts, and meet myself with the compassion I had so easily offered others.
Through somatic practices, Internal Family Systems, mindfulness, neuroscience, and deep inner work, I began shedding the conditioning and adaptations that had taught me who I was supposed to be.
My life became less focused on DOING and more on BEING who I am.
Slowly, I discovered something life-changing: beneath all those layers, I was never broken. My wholeness had been there all along.
Today, I have a quieter inner critic, greater capacity for life’s challenges and uncertainty, deeper self-trust, and a sense of home within myself that doesn’t depend on someone else’s approval.
That is why I do this work as a holistic psychotherapist and integrative coach.
I’m deeply touched when I hear my clients say:
“For the first time in my life actually I’m loving myself.”
“I’m finally trusting myself and believing in my worth.”
“I used to aspire to trust in my ability to meet the moment, but now I’m actually believing it.”
I help women who have been doing the personal growth work but still feel stuck, uncover what is truly theirs, release what no longer serves them, and reconnect with their True Self beneath it all.
Your wholeness has always been there. Let’s uncover it together.
Come home to yourself and experience the freedom of living the truth of who you are.
Tahnee Swanton, MA, LPCCIntegrative Mindfulness-based Psychotherapist
I believe we all want to experience the freedom of being fully alive as our True Self, but often just don't know how to actually do it. That’s where I come in.
INVITATION
I invite you to join me in an experiential counseling process that is structured to support your inherent wholeness and empower you in coming home to yourself and consciously creating your life.
My counseling practice integrates somatic, mental, emotional, and spiritual well-being through deep presence and compassion. I draw from a wide range of holistic modalities including Mindfulness, Interpersonal Neuroscience, Embodiment practices, Transpersonal, Existential, Authentic Relating, Gestalt, Internal Family Systems, with trauma-informed approaches applied tailored to the needs and goals of each individual client.
I believe that therapy is most effective when it is co-created by client and therapist where you are an active participant in our work. I take a non-pathologizing approach, meaning that you don’t need a diagnosis to better your life. I’m fascinated by spiritual and existential inquiry and how this can translate into a fulfilling experience of being fully alive and fully ourselves.
Schedule a free 30-minute consult
Say “YES” to investing in yourself.
This being human is a guest house.
Every morning a new arrival.
A joy, a depression, a meanness,
some momentary awareness comes
as an unexpected visitor.
Welcome and entertain them all!
Even if they’re a crowd of sorrows,
who violently sweep your house
empty of its furniture,
still, treat each guest honorably.
He may be clearing you out
for some new delight.
The dark thought, the shame, the malice,
meet them at the door laughing,
and invite them in.
Be grateful for whoever comes,
because each has been sent
as a guide from beyond.
-Rumi