Influential Works
Amanda Curtin:
Early Childhood Trauma Recovery

Cheri Huber:
Zen, Unconditional Self-Acceptance

Phillip Carr-Gromm:
Druidry

Marshall Rosenburg:
Nonviolent Communication

Alice Walker:
Traumatic Conditioning

Judith Herman:
Trauma and Recovery

van der Kolk:
Biology of Fear Conditioning

Margaret Paul:
Inner Child Work

Lucia Capacchione:
Dialoguing Experientials

Irvin Yalom:
Existential Psychotherapy

Carl Rogers:
Humanistic Psychotherapy

Terrence Real:
Gender and Marital Therapy

Brad Blanton:
Radical Honesty

Beverly Engel:
Emotional Abuse

Aaron Beck:
Cognitive Therapy

Elaine Aron:
The Highly Sensitive Person

Contact Me
swild(at)lesley(dot)edu

My name is Sequoia Wild and I am a graduate student at Lesley University, in the Clinical Mental Health Counseling program, Trauma Specialization. I am becoming a therapist to guide adolescents and their families on the path of recovery from abuse and growing beyond their social conditioning, which I consider to be a causal aspect of the human condition.

In preparation for my career I have also been doing my own recovery and growth work. Though I started my own process and learning with behavior-oriented methods like cognitive therapy (restructuring maladaptive thoughts), these interventions quickly expanded to an existential scale (questioning essential assumptions about the nature of life). As I began to explore the mind-body connection and the biology of trauma, it became clear that a holistic and experiential approach would be the most effective treatment for someone who was interested in stepping outside their conditioning. The combination of these approaches has convinced me that self-growth and healing is essentially a spiritual endeavor.

My connection to the universe and the voice of my higher self takes the form of a deep appreciation of Nature. for me, Nature means both being outdoors as well as natural laws. I have always been awed by how humans are able to explain so much of the universe using mathematics, and now I have encountered the language of spirituality to explain that which mathematics does not yet have a model for. My intuition wonders if mathematics is the connection that we can feel to the web of life when meditating- something our body can sense even if our mind cannot see the Universal Equation yet. It is this intuition that has inspired me to incorporate both Zen Buddhism and Druidry into my therapeutic perspective.