Relational Therapy
WHAT IS [TYPE OF] THERAPY?
Relational Therapy in Sacramento, California.
Blurb here about [type of] approach.
Healing happens in relationships. Relational therapy explores the ways our early attachments, past relationships, and interpersonal dynamics shape our present experiences.
This approach is rooted in the belief that deep healing comes through being seen, understood, and held in a safe therapeutic space. By exploring relational patterns, we uncover how past experiences inform our emotional responses, self-worth, and ability to connect with others. Together, we cultivate healthier relationships—both with yourself and those around you.
Relational Therapy: The Heart of Healing
At the core of my therapeutic practice lies Relational Therapy, a modality I prioritize because of the profound belief that the therapeutic relationship itself is the most crucial component of the healing process. This approach ensures that our connection—the "vibe" we create together—forms a foundation of safety, trust, and mutual respect, allowing for deep, transformative work to occur.
Safety and Witnessing: In our sessions, creating a safe space for you to be authentically yourself is paramount. It's in this environment that true healing begins, through being seen, heard, and genuinely witnessed.
Collaborative Exploration: Together, we embark on a journey of exploration and discovery, where your experiences, feelings, and stories are validated and understood.
Personal Narrative and Mythology: My role as a therapist is to create a safe, accepting space where you feel seen and understood. Together, we work to rewrite your narrative and personal mythology. Your story is so important, and I will meet you where you are because this journey is challenging. I welcome all your weird, wacky, unmasked, and unexplored parts. My approach is warm, compassionate, and non-judgmental.
Hi, I’m Stephanie Brumfield
Licensed Therapist in California, Holistic Therapy & Spiritual Support
Hi, I’m Stephanie Brumfield, a holistic spiritual therapist, certified astrologer, and eternal seeker. Deeply attuned to the subtle and sensitive aspects of life, I specialize in creating a compassionate space for individuals who feel misunderstood or out of place due to their neurodivergence, beliefs, or values. My work focuses on helping clients navigate familial disconnect, societal expectations, and spiritual awakenings, guiding them on a journey from black sheep to holy outsider.
As someone who is neurodivergent (AuDHDer), I value soulful, meaningful connections and draw inspiration from the wisdom of nature, especially trees. With a deep passion for ancestral work, mythology, astrology, trauma healing, and dreams, I integrate these elements into a practice that honors the cyclical nature of death, rebirth, and transformation - a reflection of my Scorpio Moon. Whether I’m researching, reading, or listening to 90s grunge, my approach to healing is grounded in energy medicine, spirituality, and the belief that personal healing can ripple outward to transform the collective.
Approaches
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Spirituality
Spiritual therapy integrates traditional therapeutic approaches with spiritual exploration, helping you connect to a deeper sense of purpose and meaning. Whether you are navigating a spiritual awakening, seeking clarity, or reconnecting with your inner self, this approach honors the connection between mind, body, and spirit for holistic healing.
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Neurodivergence
Therapy for neurodivergent individuals offers a supportive space to explore the unique ways your mind works. By integrating evidence-based therapeutic practices with a deep understanding of neurodivergence, this approach helps you embrace your strengths, manage challenges, and honor your individuality on your path to healing and self-discovery.
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Highly Sensitive People
Therapy for highly sensitive people (HSPs) focuses on creating a compassionate space to navigate the challenges of heightened sensitivity. By honoring your unique emotional depth and sensory awareness, this approach combines evidence-based practices with mindfulness and grounding techniques to help you thrive as an HSP.
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Healers & Empaths
Therapy for healers and empaths provides a safe and supportive environment to address patterns of people-pleasing and codependency. By exploring your boundaries, relationships, and emotional energy, this approach helps you develop self-compassion and create balance in your life, empowering you to channel your gifts without losing yourself in the process.
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Complex Trauma PTSD (C-PTSD)
Therapy for complex trauma (C-PTSD) and childhood trauma provides a trauma-informed and compassionate approach to healing the wounds of the past. Through inner child work, somatic techniques, and evidence-based modalities, this therapy helps you release pain, reprocess trauma, and cultivate a sense of safety and empowerment.
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Motherhood
Therapy for motherhood explores the many facets of this transformative journey, from conception and pregnancy to postpartum healing and cycle breaking. This approach honors your experiences, whether it’s healing birth trauma, connecting with spirit babies, or navigating ambivalence, and provides tools for reparenting yourself while nurturing others.
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Pluto's Realm | Sex Workers
Therapy for individuals navigating Pluto’s realm offers a transformative space to explore themes of power, shadow, and renewal. For sex workers, this approach provides a nonjudgmental, trauma-informed space to address personal and systemic challenges, empowering you to embrace your authenticity and reclaim your narrative.
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Ancestral Healing
Therapy for ancestral healing focuses on breaking intergenerational cycles and addressing the pain carried from past generations. By exploring the mother and father wounds, this approach combines evidence-based practices with rituals, grief tending, and ancestral connection to release inherited patterns and create a new legacy of healing.
[Approach Symptoms]
[Type of] approach therapy can be effectively treat various symptoms and conditions including:
Attachment wounds
Relationship struggles
Fear of intimacy
Fear of abandonment
Trust issues
Difficulty setting boundaries
Codependency
Repeating unhealthy patterns
Self-sabotaging in relationships
People-pleasing tendencies
Feeling disconnected in relationships
Unresolved family dynamics
Low self-worth
Difficulty expressing emotions
Emotional reactivity
Difficulty receiving love and support
Anxious attachment styles
Navigating breakups and divorce
Healing from toxic relationships
Building healthier connections
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Services and Specialties
Therapy for Sensitive, Unconventional, and Neurodivergent Folx
I work with individuals who often feel pushed out of their family systems, scapegoated, or misunderstood due to their belief systems, sensitivity, neurodivergence, or values that differ from the mainstream. These individuals often embody the black sheep archetype. They typically feel misplaced or misunderstood within their family of origin or the broader community, experiencing a profound sense of loss and grief for the community and familial connections they lack. Many are undergoing a spiritual awakening or emergence, grappling with a worldview that significantly differs from mainstream society or their familial beliefs. They crave a space where their unique experiences, views, and parts can be deeply understood and validated. At Dr. Mia Hetényi teachers, this is the journey from black sheep to holy outsider.
Depth Psychotherapy for Astrologers, Mystics, Healers, and Spiritual Seekers
By incorporating archetypal astrology and symbols into depth psychotherapy, I work with clients who are not only seeking to delve deep into their psyche but also understand the broader cosmic influences on their lives. This approach helps integrate the paradoxes of their lives and gain deeper insights into their journey. These clients are seeking to be understood by their therapist for their spiritual views and seeking a place to explore their different parts. They want a therapist who speaks a similar language and can incorporate a spiritual lens into therapy through tools such as dreamwork, earth-based practice, archetypal astrology, or mythology. I enjoy working with all types of spiritual seekers including: mystics, astrologers, astrology enthusiasts, intuitives, energy workers, witches, priestesses, pagans, and other types of healers.
Holistic Therapy for Empaths, Highly Sensitive People, and Autistics
I work with empathetic individuals, highly sensitive people (HSP), empaths, and autistic individuals who often navigate overwhelming self-criticism, anxiety, and shame due to their deep emotional sensitivity and need for solitude or deep engagement with interests. My focus includes supporting late-diagnosed autistic women, many of whom have felt alienated in a world that seems to misunderstand them, as they journey toward embracing their authentic selves. These individuals face challenges with setting boundaries, people-pleasing, and perfectionism, which can lead to burnout and disconnection. The therapeutic goal is to develop healthier boundaries, reduce self-criticism, and embrace authenticity, aiding in the discovery of the authentic self, free from overwhelm. Embracing the spiritual dimension of autism and empathy, I view these qualities as unique perspectives that enrich our collective experience and pave the way to a more compassionate, inclusive world for those who have felt out of place.
Spiritual Therapy for Mothers, Conconcious Fertility, Conception, and Parenting
I specialize in supporting individuals who seek to embrace parenting, mothering, conception, and fertility through a spiritual and holistic lens. Many of my clients have experienced profound connections or sensed their spirit baby before conception, and wish to explore fertility, motherhood, and conception from this deeply spiritual and holistic perspective. An important part of this journey for many is the healing of ancestral wounds and mother wounds before the arrival of their baby. I work with women and individuals at all stages of motherhood, including pre-conception, pregnancy, postpartum, and beyond, helping them to navigate these experiences with spiritual depth and holistic insight.
“Trauma is not what happens to us, but what we hold inside in the absence of an empathetic witness.”
- Peter Levine
Therapy for Childhood Trauma and Healing the Inner Child
I am deeply committed to the healing journey of individuals who have experienced childhood trauma. My approach centers on the transformative power of storytelling and the profound healing that comes from being witnessed in one’s pain and resilience. I guide my clients through the spiral and generative process of grief, recognizing that for many, tending to the inner child is a crucial part of their healing journey. Together, we work to give the inner child a voice, acknowledging and witnessing the pain that has often been silenced or overlooked. This process involves cultivating a loving inner mother, a task that can be particularly challenging for those who have navigated the turbulent waters of childhood trauma.
The Underworld of Motherhood
I offer support to mothers and stepmothers navigating the darker, often unspoken aspects of motherhood—the "underworld of motherhood," where challenges like adjusting to new roles, coping with traumatic births, struggling with breastfeeding, or battling feelings of inadequacy and loneliness emerge. I provide a safe space for women who feel overwhelmed by the harsh realities they didn't anticipate, including those grappling with shame or rage toward their motherhood experience. Additionally, I extend my support to stepmothers and individuals in blended families, who face unique challenges such as stigma, confusion, and resentment. The goal is to find understanding, healing, and a sense of belonging in their roles, acknowledging and addressing the complex emotions that accompany the journey of motherhood and stepmotherhood.
Motherhood Ambivalence and Healing the Mother Wound
I provide a compassionate and safe space for women who are navigating the complex emotions surrounding motherhood, including fears, ambivalence, and the desire to heal from past wounds before embarking on the journey of parenthood. I work with individuals contemplating motherhood or parenthood, who may be carrying concerns stemming from their own childhood experiences or the need to heal the mother wound. Additionally, I support women who are processing the emotional aftermath of abortions, pregnancy terminations, or previous egg donations, helping them address fears of getting pregnant again, and the guilt or shame that might accompany these past experiences
Facing the Ghosts in the Nursery
I work with parents who are navigating the challenges of parenting with a background of painful childhood wounds, complex trauma, or PTSD. These individuals may find themselves feeling particularly challenged in their roles as parents, encountering triggers through their interactions with their children, and coping with emotional and somatic flashbacks. My role involves helping them through the process of reparenting themselves while they nurture their children, addressing their complex relationship with grief and the fears associated with becoming overwhelmed by it. Many are dealing with deep-seated shame and are in the process of uncovering memories from their past that have long been hidden away. These parents are courageous cycle breakers, seeking to transform their pain into strength for themselves and their families. I aim to support them in their journey towards healing, providing a compassionate space for them to grow and break free from the cycles that have held them back.