Tammy Furrier M.A.

Story Informed Trauma Soul Care

https://storyinformed.com/about/sitt-for-clients/

Our stories shape us. Experiences of relationship, loss, trauma, neglect, betrayal, and the absence of what we needed can influence how we understand ourselves, relate to others, experience God, and respond to the world around us. These experiences are held not only in what we consciously remember, but also in our bodies, nervous systems, attachment patterns, emotions, beliefs, and ways of relating.

Rather than beginning with “What is wrong with me?” I invite you to become curious: What happened? What did I need? How was I alone in it? What did I come to believe? And how did I learn to adapt?
Many of the patterns that trouble us today began as intelligent attempts to find safety, connection, belonging, or relief when we did not yet have the capacity or support to respond differently. I want to help you understand these adaptations with compassion so you can begin to distinguish who you are from how you learned to survive. Change often begins with the question, “Where are you?”

Healing is more than understanding what happened.
I use story work to help you recognize where your God-given capacities for connection, agency, emotional regulation, trust, discernment, joy, embodiment, and relationship may have been wounded, disrupted, or underdeveloped.

I attend to the whole person—story, attachment, nervous system, body, emotions, relationships, protective responses, identity, and spiritual life—while discerning what kind of support is appropriate for where you are now.

My goal is not simply to revisit painful experiences or eliminate symptoms. I want to help what has remained fragmented become increasingly integrated, while strengthening the capacities you need to live with greater freedom, connection, and choice.

Your story is part of a larger story.
As a Christian pastoral counselor, I understand healing within the larger redemptive story of God. I help you compassionately explore how your story has shaped not only your relationship with yourself and others, but also how you experience God.
When appropriate, I make room for you to become more aware of Immanuel—God with us—and to discern His presence and invitation within the places we explore.

This is not about placing a spiritual explanation over suffering or rushing toward a positive interpretation. It is about allowing truth, grief, relationship, and God’s compassionate presence to become part of how your story is held now.
I believe God can redeem and “re-story” our understanding of what has happened—not by changing the facts of our story, but by changing the meaning, identity, and future that must flow from it.

Healing restores our God-given capacity to live increasingly from love rather than survival—freeing us to grow into who God created us to be, love God and others more freely, and participate in His Kingdom purposes.