Arielle Mesa, LICSW, MSW.
1. What's your practice focus and what kind of clients knock on your door ?
Sacred Space specializes in multidimensional wellness by centering the healing of one's mind, body, emotion, and spirit. I support people in reconnecting with themselves on a deeper level and reclaiming their inherent healing capacity through an array of approaches, including somatic experiencing, internal family systems, psychospiritual, psychodynamic, mindfulness, and brainspotting modalities. I specialize in working with developmental trauma, sexual and domestic violence, and complex grief.
2. Tell us about yourself.
Sacred Space is a vision cultivated over many years of working on myself and supporting others. Throughout my life, I have faced many difficult experiences that forced me to take care of others in big ways. Despite the weight of these experiences, I always managed to find a way to persevere and evolve. My natural gift of transmuting pain and struggle into life affirming energy and my personal experience to the beauty that comes with self-healing work guides me to show up each day for humanity.
3. Tell us the story of a patient who you are most proud of helping.
I have many proud moments, but one client I supported early on in my career sticks out. She was a person who struggled for a long time with severe psychosis and subsequent chronic homelessness. During the nine months we worked together, this person reclaimed a deeper sense of emotional and psychological stability, moved into an apartment of her own, and began pursuing her love for animals by volunteering at the national zoo. I was so grateful to support her in her journey.
4. What's one of the hardest things that comes with being a practitioner in private practice?
One of the hardest things that comes with being a practitioner in private practice is finding a healthy balance between discipline and grace for oneself. Maintaining the motivation and energy to meet the demands of a healthy and growing private practice while creating spaciousness and slowness to tend to one's own wellness related needs can be quite the challenge.
5. What are the top 3 tips you'd give to anyone looking to start, run and grow a private practice today?\
The top 3 tips I'd give to anyone looking to learn more about private practice is to
- Practice patience when watching the seeds of your labor root, sprout, and blossom
- Enlist the help of trusted others for moral and practical support when you feel stuck
- With everything you do, ask yourself if it is for service or for power