OFFICE LOCATION
- Alameda, California 94501
ADDITIONAL SPECIALITIES
Angela Riewe, AMFT
If you’re looking for a relationship expert, you might have noticed recently feeling more irritated and less patient with the people you love or experiencing a sense of frustration, maybe a mixture of sadness and grief, or possibly anger and despair. You might even feel confused or alone. You might fear being rejected, not mattering, not measuring up, or feeling that what you do is never enough. Even though you’ve tried your best to listen and understand, communication is challenging (which might be an understatement). Maybe you’ve noticed survival defenses being triggered—fight, flight, freeze or fawn.
After a rupture in the relationship, there’s often the pain of heartache, longing for healing, and the need to restore a sense of safety and connection. In service to your relationship, I use cutting-edge approaches and compassionate communication to support you to cultivate a sense of care, comfort, acceptance, belonging, mattering and togetherness. I listen for the needs underlying your feelings to facilitate reflective listening and work to provide acknowledgment for each person. With great kindness, I validate how your attempts to meet a need made sense from one perspective, yet didn’t have the desired effect or intended outcome.
I bring two decades of expertise in mind-body integrative approaches, along with previous experience as a conflict-resolution mediator, to my highly-trained counseling skill set, helping couples co-regulate, restore connection, increase relationship satisfaction and passion, repair attachment wounds and promote resiliency. I offer a kind, warm, non-judgmental strengths-based and trauma-informed approach utilizing mindfulness and parts work (informed by Internal Family Systems).
I take an active role in supporting clients to express their heartfelt intentions, get curious (in a gentle way) about coping strategies, and gain clarity about their relationship desires and passions. I invite clients to lean back, pause, and listen in new ways, to see with new eyes.
Background
I have a life-long passion for living the dance of intimacy and autonomy. My training as a Soul Motion conscious dance teacher informs my approach to therapy as I continue to deepen into the lifelong practice of staying true to my soul’s expression while being in relationships with more grace and ease. I value inclusivity, spirituality (a sense of something greater than ourselves), inner wisdom, and respect for all things living. I find hope and insight from stepping back to see the larger picture, considering cultural context, systemic injustice, epigenetics and ancestry.
Training & Education
I am an Associate Marriage and Family Therapist. I have a Master’s Degree from John F. Kennedy University in Counseling Psychology with a concentration in somatic psychology. I have a Bachelor’s degree from Sonoma State University with training in humanistic, transpersonal, child development and eco-psychology.
The following are some of the therapy trainings I have completed:
Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFT); Hakomi Mindful Somatic Psychology (assisted Levels 1 and 2); EMDR Basic Training at the Institute for Creative Mindfulness; Sensorimotor Psychotherapy for Complex Trauma and Dissociation; The Dharma of Trauma Levels 1 and 2; Oaklander (play therapy) Training; Healing Shame—Unlocking Shame Binds.
In my free time
As Soul Motion teacher of conscious dance, you can find me on the dance floor tuning into my own authentic movements while demystifying the art of duets and community dance. I also enjoy paddleboarding, nature-based rites of passage, contact improv., yoga nidra, and SoulCollage®.
Angela Riewe, AMFT
OFFICE LOCATION
- Alameda, California 94501
ADDITIONAL SPECIALITIES
About
If you’re looking for a relationship expert, you might have noticed recently feeling more irritated and less patient with the people you love or experiencing a sense of frustration, maybe a mixture of sadness and grief, or possibly anger and despair. You might even feel confused or alone. You might fear being rejected, not mattering, not measuring up, or feeling that what you do is never enough. Even though you’ve tried your best to listen and understand, communication is challenging (which might be an understatement). Maybe you’ve noticed survival defenses being triggered—fight, flight, freeze or fawn.
After a rupture in the relationship, there’s often the pain of heartache, longing for healing, and the need to restore a sense of safety and connection. In service to your relationship, I use cutting-edge approaches and compassionate communication to support you to cultivate a sense of care, comfort, acceptance, belonging, mattering and togetherness. I listen for the needs underlying your feelings to facilitate reflective listening and work to provide acknowledgment for each person. With great kindness, I validate how your attempts to meet a need made sense from one perspective, yet didn’t have the desired effect or intended outcome.
I bring two decades of expertise in mind-body integrative approaches, along with previous experience as a conflict-resolution mediator, to my highly-trained counseling skill set, helping couples co-regulate, restore connection, increase relationship satisfaction and passion, repair attachment wounds and promote resiliency. I offer a kind, warm, non-judgmental strengths-based and trauma-informed approach utilizing mindfulness and parts work (informed by Internal Family Systems).
I take an active role in supporting clients to express their heartfelt intentions, get curious (in a gentle way) about coping strategies, and gain clarity about their relationship desires and passions. I invite clients to lean back, pause, and listen in new ways, to see with new eyes.
Background
I have a life-long passion for living the dance of intimacy and autonomy. My training as a Soul Motion conscious dance teacher informs my approach to therapy as I continue to deepen into the lifelong practice of staying true to my soul’s expression while being in relationships with more grace and ease. I value inclusivity, spirituality (a sense of something greater than ourselves), inner wisdom, and respect for all things living. I find hope and insight from stepping back to see the larger picture, considering cultural context, systemic injustice, epigenetics and ancestry.
Training & Education
I am an Associate Marriage and Family Therapist. I have a Master’s Degree from John F. Kennedy University in Counseling Psychology with a concentration in somatic psychology. I have a Bachelor’s degree from Sonoma State University with training in humanistic, transpersonal, child development and eco-psychology.
The following are some of the therapy trainings I have completed:
Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFT); Hakomi Mindful Somatic Psychology (assisted Levels 1 and 2); EMDR Basic Training at the Institute for Creative Mindfulness; Sensorimotor Psychotherapy for Complex Trauma and Dissociation; The Dharma of Trauma Levels 1 and 2; Oaklander (play therapy) Training; Healing Shame—Unlocking Shame Binds.
In my free time
As Soul Motion teacher of conscious dance, you can find me on the dance floor tuning into my own authentic movements while demystifying the art of duets and community dance. I also enjoy paddleboarding, nature-based rites of passage, contact improv., yoga nidra, and SoulCollage®.