Psychotherapist
Rian Bodner (He/They) collaborates with clients to discover meaningful ways to express their truth and navigate boundaries that align with how they desire to show up in the world for themselves and others. When working with Rian, you can expect to lovingly explore your blindspots, your capacity to move through joy and grief, and how to source answers and intuition from within. Rian recognizes that you are the expert on yourself and sees his job as a mirror to highlight patterns, successes, and growth opportunities. Through your work together, you can creatively engage yourself emotionally, mentally, and relationally to achieve your therapeutic goals.
A Smith School for Social Work graduate, Rian has also taught mindfulness practices for over a decade, employing accessible tools for stress, anxiety, and habitual thinking. He utilizes his experience in somatics (body awareness) to encourage clients to further deeply investigate how their thoughts and feelings are being experienced in the present moment and hold historical memory.
His training in social work enables him to recognize how external systems, culture, and interpersonal and generational life experiences influence one’s mental health. By conceiving of what is within and without one’s ability to control, Rian’s clients are offered a sense of empowerment by redefining outdated self-concepts, deepening self-acceptance, and focusing on what their emotions are teaching them. By doing so, clients learn how to navigate boundaries and approaches to thinking to initiate change and growth.
Rian identifies as a cisgender, queer, Jewish man.
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