Whale Being Therapy, Ellie Wilde, Ph.D.
dive into aliveness
& reclaim your flow
Express. Discover. Play. Transform.
You have dreams. You hear them calling you through the noise and darkness.
You don't need a professional to tell you what's wrong with you as you sit under fluorescent lights.
You want to feel it again -- your visceral belonging to the aliveness that runs through us all. To reclaim your instinct, intuition, inner voice. To trust your own perception again and let it guide you.
Maybe you yearn to follow a deeper rhythm, to let the river of your creative life force flow through you, adding your own critical note to the Universe's song. Or you seek someone to walk beside you as you face your fears and reach towards your dreams. If this rings a bell, I'd love to connect.
You deserve to relax into spacious breath, stretch your wings wide and feel the breeze...
let your fins and flippers dance you down deep and back up into the light again, singing...
to play in the waterfall and lay on the warm rock, listening to the sweet, steady hum of all that is.
This work helps us practice belonging, set boundaries, and let love in. Express our most essential selves and share our spark. Grieve, heal intergenerational wounds, and reconnect with ancestors. Integrate mind-body-spirit. Open our senses more deeply to pleasure, beauty, and joy.
I offer trauma-informed, creative, experiential therapy rooted in Psychodrama, Expressive Arts, Somatic parts work, and play. You get to choose from this blend of embodied practices, the most potent, transformative, and liberatory I have found in decades of seeking.
My practice centers neurodivergent, queer and gender-expansive folks, immigrants, creatives, healers, and community leaders working towards collective liberation.
We co-create a strong enough container for you to explore what matters most through depth work, embodiment, presence, expression, and imagination. We move at your pace.
This work ignites hope, energy, and a sense of wonder. It builds capacity to feel the full spectrum of human emotions from joy to grief. It helps us tap into flow with our passions, practice creative new responses to old problems in real time, and bring our dreams to life. Read about how I work here or reach through the portal below to begin!
I hold deep respect for the courage this practice requires. Your consent and voice are always centered. As your nervous system reorients to safety and connection through stress release and grounding, you may discover deeper presence with your own life. Clients share feeling:
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Clarity, joy, creativity, empowerment & meaning far beyond cognitive insight
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Expansive, transcendent connection, life "regains color," pleasure, spontaneity
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Lightness, vitality, childlike awe, a well of potential they call "limitless!"
relationships & COUPLEs
Relationships have always been my passion, from writing the Gottman Institute's blog at the beginning of my training, and shaping every step of my career since.
For decades, I have immersed myself in both the art and science of helping relationships thrive -- from publishing relationship research during my PhD to pursuing extensive advanced training beyond the classroom.
Today, I integrate elements of Gottman Method, Sue Johnson's Emotion Focused Therapy (EFT), Somatics, and Psychodrama to create a deeply transformative experience for each partnership.
I am rarely my clients' first couples therapist. But many tell me that my creative, direct approach is the first to help them make a meaningful difference: break old patterns, rediscover intimacy, and deepen into love.
I am also an experienced guide through the discernment process, helping partners explore whether the relationship is still mutually supportive, decide whether to deepen commitment, or navigate the transition of separation with care and clarity.
