Integrating of all parts of who we are
I witness a lot of frustration from clients toward themselves because they wish they could just stop overindulging with their vices, or could just show up with friends and family members in a way that honors their integrity. The repeated failed attempts get really exhausting. Sometimes in personal growth journeys, we get stuck working against symptoms instead of working with intuition and grace.
About Molly Fitz King
Therapist in the heart of Jtown
I’m Molly Fitz King, I started my career in 2011 at The School for Autism which inspired me to go back to school to get my masters. I have clinical experience in inpatient, outpatient, and community mental health settings that I believe has prepared me for this work.
I rely heavily on approaches that use the body to regulate the mind. For clients who are comfortable using art, music, dance, writing, and enactment, I have a second license in Art Therapy and love any opportunity to unite the verbal with the visual. I specialize in accomodating and working with Autistic people. I also have a strong background in trauma and mood disorders.
As a clinician, it’s really important to me that I am never dictating your healing but rather with you in a process of getting closer and closer to your core and how you want to show up in the world. Diagnosis can be a part of the process but I emphasize that I am sitting across from a human who is struggling and certain labels or diagnosis can make us lose sight of that. There are many cases where diagnoses cause more harm than good.
I take my own personal mental health seriously and my long term commitment to learning about myself informs how I show up as a provider. I play a sport I love twice a week. I practice all the strategies that I discuss in therapy sessions but one I regularly go back to is mindful movements and walking meditation.
I strive to help people restore hope in their own ability to heal, to live a life in line with their values.
Specializations:
Healing using Patience and Curiosity
Autism
Anxiety
Trauma and Mood Disorders
About Scribbles
Scribbles is a goofy little friend to everyone in the building. He got his name because, in art therapy, scribbling is very important. It is the first mark making we all engage in as children no matter how technically skilled we become in art later in life, it unifies us as creators of visual arts. It reminds us that no matter what age we are, art can be temporary and messy. We can make creating about movement and rhythm and humor. We all start our mark making journey with scribbling, and if we are lucky, we give ourselves the opportunity to go back. Scribbles provides a playful and calming presence that keeps sessions rooted in regulation. We will process hard things in our journey together and Scribbles keeps us grounded along the way.
“Maybe they (dogs) remind us, in this way, of our own origins, when our bodies were not yet assumed into the world of speech. Then we could experience wordlessly, which must at once be a painful thing and a strange joy, a pure kind of engagement that adults never know again.”
— Mark Doty, Dog Years: A Memoir