Obi Schlachter (He/Him)

My Background and Approach

I hold a MA in Counseling with a specialization in addictions treatment. I am a certified drug and alcohol counselor, and I have been working within mental health for the last 15 years. I began working as a wilderness & leadership guide for youth and have worked in many different roles and areas of the western mental health system. This experience has given me a healthy amount of clinical experience in working with various people and their families amidst unexpected conflict, grief, and chaos that life can hold. I believe each person is a unique ecology, but we all share a desire to connect with our experience of ourselves, others, and the world in a holistic and meaningful way. Integration is a key process of health. My modalities include using mindfulness exercises, somatic narrative, somatic experiencing, breath work, and relationship-focused dialogue to bring balance and acceptance with what is while creating practice and rituals to create change.

My Personal Beliefs and Interests

What makes me unique is being a certified movement coach and trainer for the last 10 years and have actively pursued continuing education in somatic depth-psychology to mature my personal practice and understanding of wholeness and balance somatically. Our bodies intelligence is often an unacknowledged resource that a person can tune into to seek insight, expression, release, and healing. Braiding from my experience working in mental health, certified movement coach, and living the hardships of a life changing injury I have created a practice and offering with the aim of supporting clients collaboratively. Authentically receiving, and listening to those I work with, and proactively moving the individual and the collective towards a practice that can create change and wholeness.