A place to orient when old frameworks feel tight.
For people who have done a lot of inner work and are now learning how to live with more connection, self-trust, and authenticity after experiences shaped by control, pressure, or rigid expectations.
You may already understand what shaped you—
the beliefs, systems, roles, or expectations that once organized your inner world and your life in the world.
You’ve questioned, deconstructed, healed, and grown.
Now your blooming from a new place.
Learning how to live without rushing, proving, or abandoning yourself.
Learning how to make decisions from alignment instead of fear.
Learning how to inhabit your life when the old structures no longer hold.
This work is about integration — supporting the slow, human process of bringing insight into lived experience, while accounting for both your inner world and the larger systems you’re still living inside.
You might feel at home here if…
you resonate with people who have already done a lot of inner work — and are now noticing a quieter, harder question underneath it all:
How do I actually live from what I know?
You’ve outgrown beliefs, roles, or ways of living that once made sense, but now feel constraining or misaligned
You understand the systems that shaped you — family systems, religious environments, political or cultural pressures — and you’re learning how to live inside the world without letting those systems define you
You’ve spent years doing the emotional and relational labor, and you’re tired of carrying responsibility that was never meant to be yours alone
You value depth, self-awareness, and integrity, but don’t want your life to revolve around constant self-analysis
You’re ready to take meaningful action — not from urgency or fear, but from steadiness and self-trust
This work is also for people who are rebuilding community — not just socially, but structurally.
You may long for belonging, collaboration, and shared life, while also recognizing that the frameworks you were given for community relied on obligation, hierarchy, or self-erasure. You’re learning how to become a villager again — one who values interdependence, mutual responsibility, and steady reciprocity — without recreating the dynamics you’ve worked so hard to leave behind.
And this space often resonates with people who have had significant insight — through therapy, spiritual exploration, or even psychedelic experiences — but feel unsure how to translate what they’ve learned into lived direction.
You may have many of the puzzle pieces: clarity, data, awareness, felt experiences.
What’s missing is not insight, but meaning-making — the ability to understand what those experiences are asking of you now, and how to move forward in ways that are grounded, ethical, and sustainable.
Some people arrive here because of religious trauma or spiritual abuse.
Others arrive because of high-pressure family dynamics, chronic over-functioning, burnout, or the subtle exhaustion of trying to flourish inside systems that were never designed for healthy interdependence.
You don’t need to fit a category to be here.
If you’re learning how to integrate what you know into how you live — in relationship, in community, and in the world — this work is meant to support that.
You’re tired of living in your head.
You’re smart—you’ve analyzed the angles.
But insight alone hasn’t brought peace.
Our work together is about slowing down and listen to the body.
Healing isn’t about thinking—it happens through presence, regulation, and embodied connection.
This isn’t traditional therapy, and that’s intentional.
It’s for moving past the mind work and grounding insight into deeper growth and sustainable flourishing.
Jillian Houghton, MAEd, LPC
I’m a licensed psychotherapist, spiritual/intuition recovery coach, religious trauma consultant, and indoctrination educator.
I put all my clinical know how toward helping provide religious trauma informed support.
Hi, I’m Jillian
I’m so glad you’ve found your way here.
I work with people ready to move beyond survival—into healing, clarity, and real transformation. My time as a psychotherapist taught me that lasting change happens when we combine practical tools with deep, soul-level work. If you’re feeling stuck or sensing it’s time to explore what aligns with who you’re becoming… you’re not alone. Come learn more about my story and the heart behind this work.
With Love,
1:1 Clinically-Informed Support for Deep Nervous System Healing
You’ve done the thinking. Now it’s time to integrate.
Whether you’re untangling old stories or getting reacquainted with your body and spirit, there’s space here for all of it.
Religious trauma informed support to help you navigate connecting to self trust, intuition, and spirituality after leaving high control religions and relationships.
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