Hi, I’m Allison.

I’m a therapist and yoga teacher drawn to the places where people begin to slow down—where what’s been held quietly starts to surface, and there’s finally room to meet it.

My work is rooted in embodiment, connection, and the natural world. I’m interested not only in what we think, but in what we carry—in our bodies, our histories, and the ways we’ve learned to move through the world.

About

My story. My why.

I didn’t arrive here by accident.

My relationship with nature began long before I had language for why it mattered. Some of my earliest experiences of spirituality and connection happened outdoors—my family sometimes held our own version of church outside. I was homeschooled, and I remember finding the patches of sunlight in our back room to do my reading, almost like a lazy cat, instinctively drawn toward warmth and light.

As I grew older, that relationship took different forms: climbing, hiking, backpacking, foraging, teaching children about plants, forest-school work, retreats, and yoga. Only much later did I encounter the clinical language of nervous-system regulation, embodiment, ecopsychology, and nature-informed therapy and recognize something I had already known experientially: the places we inhabit matter.

Light, landscape, season, weather, and our relationship with the living world shape how we experience ourselves. That understanding informs my work—not as another technique to impose on therapy, but as another way of paying attention to the whole person and the relationships and environments that shape us.

Before Seele, there were years spent sitting with people and families in some of the hardest parts of their lives. Again and again, I saw how much of what we carry makes sense in the context of what we’ve lived through—the relationships that shaped us, the ways we learned to protect ourselves, and the environments in which we learned to survive and belong.

That understanding increasingly informs the way I approach this work—not as a separate technique to impose on therapy, but as another way of paying attention to the whole person and the relationships that sustain us.

Seele grew from that understanding: that healing does not have to happen in one particular way, or within one particular kind of space. Sometimes it happens in conversation. Sometimes in movement. Sometimes in stillness. Sometimes outside, with our feet on the ground and enough quiet to notice what is already there.

SEELE

pronounced ZAY-luh

German: soul

What informs my work.

My approach has been shaped by years of clinical work with individuals, couples, and families, along with ongoing study of trauma, attachment, nervous system regulation, and the ways our environments shape our well-being.

I draw from relational, experiential, cognitive, somatic, and trauma-informed approaches, adapting the work to the person rather than asking the person to fit a particular model.

My work as a yoga teacher also informs how I understand healing—not as something that happens only through thought or conversation, but through attention to breath, sensation, movement, choice, and our capacity to feel at home in our own bodies.

MS · LAPC · Trauma-informed therapist · Yoga teacher · EFT · CBT · Somatic + mindfulness-based practices

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Why Seele?

Seele is the German word for soul.

I chose the name because it holds something that can be difficult to capture in clinical language: the sense that we are more than a collection of symptoms to be managed. We are shaped by our bodies, our histories, our relationships, the places we inhabit, and the things that give our lives meaning.

The word also carries a connection to the Pennsylvania German heritage woven through this region. That sense of place matters to me. Seele is rooted here, and I wanted its name to feel connected to the landscape, history, and communities that have shaped this part of Pennsylvania.

For me, Seele leaves room for the whole person—for all the ways we are shaped by body, relationship, place, meaning, and belonging.

Perhaps this is where our paths meet.

If something here resonates, you’re welcome to learn more about counseling, explore yoga, or simply reach out.