Kambra Meyer, MA, LCMHC, LCAS

(she/her/hers)

WORK, PERSPECTIVE, & PROFESSIONAL PATHS

Even the most self-aware humans can experience periods of confusion, stuckness, and destabilization, and most often our suffering comes from unconscious sources. I have dedicated my training and education as a helping professional to learn the most I can about how to unlock messages from the unconscious in order to promote healing and well-being. I also strive to arm my clients with concrete tools to use on their own, long after our work together is completed.

I am a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor, Licensed Clinical Addictions Specialist, Certified Advanced Integrative Therapy (AIT) Practitioner, and have a Masters Degree in Art Therapy. This allows me to draw from a spectrum of creative, alternative and traditional therapeutic approaches to meet each individual’s unique needs. I consider the whole person as I build upon each client’s personal strengths and intrinsic health to promote confidence and a sense of well-being as well as a deeper connection to self and others. I have over a decade’s experience helping people heal, blending a variety of nontraditional and expressive therapeutic approaches with evidence-based interventions to meet the individual needs of the people I serve. I specialize in trauma, and have been trained in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) and the Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT). I operate from a Health At Every Size (HAES) model.

Traditional talk-therapy helps many people process through difficult times and generate insight into toxic patterns. However, this approach also has its limitations for some: at times when we are really stuck, talking about it can further entrench old patterns without offering a sense of relief. The modalities for helping people heal and transform that I use most often in my sessions are AIT and Art Therapy, because language alone isn’t always enough to fully express or understand our experiences. Art Therapy can access deeper parts of ourselves, uncover entrenched patterns, connect us to our inner child, facilitate a mind-body-spirit connection, provide an opportunity to literally look at things differently, and inspire the healing process. And, as a trained Art Therapist, I have always valued the unconscious as a force of healing potential. AIT uses the wisdom in your own physical body to quickly and gently reveal messages from the unconscious and help us remove blocks that get in our way. Exploring AIT both personally and professionally has convinced me of its ability to transform struggle and trauma of all kinds into resilience and vitality of the human spirit.

To me, therapy is a collaborative journey and I help people deal with a range of difficulties, whether they are facing some of life’s bigger questions, dealing with change and life transitions, or supporting more severe mental health symptom management. My intention is to empower and bear witness to others evolving into their best life, regardless of the circumstances leading them through the door. Committing to authenticity, genuine connection, direct communication, mutual trust, and a therapeutic alliance, I create a nonjudgmental and safe place for self-discovery and healing. I believe we are all capable of identifying internal resources to overcome obstacles, move through difficult experiences, and unlock our fullest potential. We may even surprise ourselves along the way as we open the door to greater self-awareness and uncover a path to wellness.

  • Facing and integrating trauma from my own life experiences has shaped how I work with others therapeutically. And since we are social animals healing in relationship to each other, I welcome you getting to know more about me. Of course, our sessions together will be focused on you.

    Having grown up in the Midwest, where many emotions tend to be repressed under a stoic facade, over time (and with help) I have learned to trust emotional expression as a safe endeavor.

    Having experienced paternal parental abandonment from my conception, I work hard to repair deep unconscious and conscious attachment wounds so I can connect to others and enrich my relationships.

    Having been partially adopted into a blended family at an early age has shaped my idea of belonging and relating to others.

    Having been a college athlete who virtually destroyed her relationship to her body in the process, I have learned to safely embody and inhabit my physical self with respect, reverence and compassion, all the while challenging messages from a fatphobic society; as I live in a bigger body.

    Having had undiagnosed neurodivergence (ADD) for most of my life has taught me to develop and lean into skills that integrate my uniqueness, and also to know when to seek support outside of myself.

    Being a Highly Sensitive Person (HSP), and having lived for the most part as a Reluctantly Intuitive Person™, I now appreciate these gifts more than ever. They not only help guide my enduring curiosity about my own evolution, they are crucial to the honor and privilege I have of joining others in their quests of deeper and more compassionate self-knowledge.

    My lifelong pursuit of making meaning out of my own complex ptsd and healing from shame and generational trauma have yielded some of the most rewarding experiences that continue for me to this day. That’s why I am passionate about helping to facilitate that awakening for others.

    My training and education has been prompted by some of the darkest moments of my life, and I strive to continue to learn as much as I can to be as healed as I can, in order to be a vessel of healing for others. I would never lead someone down a therapeutic avenue I have yet to walk myself.

    For what it’s worth, I am an Enneagram type 9, INFP, Sagittarius, Feminist, have an Earned Secure Attachment Style (Recovering Avoidant Attachment Style), and am an LGBTQAI+ ally. I believe Black Lives Matter.

    I strive to continue to learn how my privilege in this life as an able-bodied caucasian cisgendered heterosexual woman from the middle class has shaped me, and I seek to challenge and dismantle how it also has potentially caused harm.

    I have a deep love for the arts, and creating is my love language. I spend much of my out-of-office life playing in my ceramic studio, enjoying fresh air with the trees, traveling near and far, floating in water, playing volleyball, loving on my plants, or surrounded by my wonderful logical and biological family of loved ones. I know how very lucky I am and I do my best to not take it for granted.

    Gratitude is an active practice for me. Spiritually, all I know for sure is that I couldn’t possibly begin to know the answers, and I still remain open and curious to all positive portals of connection.

    I believe in the resonant power that healing on an individual level can have on the collective. And that, more than anything, motivates me to do this work.