Find Your Path to Healing Through Experiential Therapy
in Draper, Utah
Discover a Different Approach
At One Arrow Therapy, we believe in the power of connection and experiential learning. Our unique approach combines outdoor therapy, yoga and somatic therapy, art therapy, EMDR to help you find answers for your life and heal.
- Experience Healing in Nature: Take it outside! Outdoor therapy sessions offer a refreshing change of pace and a natural way to connect, get grounded, manage stress, and gain new perspectives in a supportive and natural environment.
- Unlock Your Creativity: Explore your inner world through art and somatic therapy. When traditional talk therapy might not be enough, find answers, healing, and self discovery through creative and somatic creative expression. You might sculpt with sand, build with lego bricks, paint, or notice sensation in yoga poses and breathing.
- Heal Together: As a marriage and family therapist, working with couples and families is my bread and butter. Learn new tools and strategies to navigate challenges and build a healthier and more connected family system.
- Individualized Care: Every journey is unique. I believe in a client led therapy approach—which means you always have a choice and are empowered to say yes, no, or change your mind. We work together to develop a personalized treatment plan that addresses your specific needs and goals.
Find Your Match
The process of finding a therapist that you like and that will also hold your feet to the fire can be intimidating and overwhelming. Research shows that 80% of the effectiveness of therapy is dependent on the relationship between client and therapist, and 20% is the therapist’s training, skill level, experience, etc. Take your time and shop around. If it feels like this is a good approach for you, let’s schedule a free, online consultation session so you can get a vibe and know for sure. Support feels cool.
How One Arrow does Therapy
One Arrow Therapy takes pride in providing modern, evidence based, relatable, quality therapy in a non-judgemental way. We welcome, accept, affirm, and celebrate diversity, including religious and spiritual beliefs, sexual orientations and expressions, traditional and non traditional relationships and families, all body types and sizes, people of color, all ethnic and cultural backgrounds, and all abilities.We support human rights, acceptance, and equality for all.
Why One Arrow?
In Buddhist teachings, the Buddha described two arrows. The first arrow is the natural experience that arises in this human state that we live in–fear, cravings, trauma, aggression. One thing is for certain, we all get hit from time to time and no one is immune to that first arrow–pain.
The second arrow, however, comes as a response to the first. We might have the experience of leaning into an addiction or craving, and then shame, experience self hate or self loathing and punish ourselves for that. That–the shame, self hatred/loathing, punishment -is the second arrow. Another way of saying it is that the second arrow is suffering.
The Buddha says: ” The first arrow hurts, why do we shoot the second arrow into us, ourselves?” And yet, we do. He goes on to say: ” In life, we cannot always control the first arrow; however, the second arrow is our reaction to the first. The second arrow is optional.”
The first arrow arises for causes and conditions beyond our control. But when we learn to release the judgment and shame that we experience in response to the first arrow, the second arrow becomes completely avoidable.
Pain and trauma happens to us all. Like the one arrow, we do not get to escape that. However, it can be hard to know how to not shoot ourselves in the foot with the second arrow or suffering…or maybe even a third or fourth. That’s why getting support from a professional and having experiential options and support for therapy can feel really, really cool.
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