ABOUT NAN
Hello
I'm Nan Hébert.
As many within the psychotherapy and healing professions, my path to becoming a therapist evolved organically from my personal journey toward healing. In addition to my private practice, I am privileged to serve as a faculty member at Naropa University and a long-standing residential faculty member at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, CA. My education, both formal and experiential, informs every aspect of my work. This education has encompassed a spectrum of human experiences—from grief and loss to trauma and dark nights of the soul, as well as moments of profound awakening, laughter, and transformative insights gained through my personal therapy. My practice in psychotherapy is both a gift that I have received and one that I am honored to share.
I have personally witnessed the transformative power of therapy in helping individuals transition from isolation to connection, from confusion to clarity, and from habitual, unconscious behaviors to a place of deep insight, expanded capacity, and the emergence of new choices. I have supported individuals grappling with depression, anxiety, anger, shame, trauma, addiction, and despair as they moved toward self-awareness, acceptance, compassion, openness, vulnerability, courage, and resilience, ultimately crafting the lives they aspire to lead through the profound connection of a therapeutic relationship.
Every healing journey is distinct; mine has taken me across the globe, while yours will have its own rhythm, timing, and needs. The more we can cultivate curiosity, compassion, patience, and playfulness in addressing our challenges—with the support of a trusted guide—the more gracefully we can navigate and embrace the steps that lead us toward the realization of our dreams.
As your counselor and compassionate ally, I am here to explore with you what your unique journey has to reveal.
THIS IS AN INVITATION:
to explore who you are, where you are, and what you want. You may be in disarray and don’t know what to do next or where to start. You may believe in yourself and your own capabilities, and you’re ready to learn more about how to use this wisdom to feel more centered and aware. You may be ready to discover, play, create, and expand into the inherent healing that comes from acts of creativity. Wherever you are in your journey with your self: You’re invited. To expand into a space where we take an embracive view of your life, recognize what is and is not working, and use your embodied wisdom to find the paths and tools that resonate with your deepest, truest self.
WISDOM EMBODIED
When you can approach your embodied wisdom with an embracive view, you give yourself an invitation: to unbridle. To uncinch. To move forward into an authentic relationship with your true self, and articulate your deepest needs.
Invitational
In my practice, you are welcome as you are. All of you. This is a space for us to unravel and weave together.
Embracive
Learn to give yourself radical permission in all circumstances. Come to embrace that there is nothing wrong with you—even if you think there is.
True
Part of growth can be learning where you are in pain, and learning what alleviates.
OUR WORK TOGETHER
My goal in our work together is to give you a safe space and container to feel genuine and heard, so that you may carry that strength and trust of self into your day to day life.
This experience can look like:
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Understand how to give yourself permission to be who you are in the world
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Knowing how to be heard, seen, and speak from your deepest self
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Clear and centered in who you are
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Aware of your patterns and choice points.
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Informed about yourself, with no pressure or judgment to make changes-unless you want to.
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Finally allowed to take up space, and understand what that means in the context of your own life.
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Unapologetically, beautifully, peacefully you.
"There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy."
Friedrich Nietzsche