the journey
The Storynlight Way
Every story holds both shadow and spark. The journey is learning to hold both.
Healing isn’t a straight line. It’s a conversation between what’s been hidden and what’s ready to be seen. In this work, we honor your pace, your story, and the rhythm of your becoming.
the journey
The Storynlight Circle
KINDLING
PURPOSE
GENTLE GOALS
Creating safety and awareness.
We begin by understanding your story’s roots, naming patterns, and kindling trust in your own inner light.
ILLUMINATION
PURPOSE
GENTLE GOALS
Light meets story
You begin to see your experiences with compassion instead of judgment, discovering meaning beneath pain.
INTEGRATION
PURPOSE
GENTLE GOALS
Wholeness in motion
Integration brings self-trust, boundaries, and the freedom to live your story forward.
Every story unfolds at its own pace.
What to Expect in Our Work Together
- Story Reframing and Narrative Awareness
- Grounding & self-regulation tools including breathwork
- Boundaries & values-based action (gentle goal setting)
- Creative Exploration
- Visualization techniques
- Parts Education and Work
- Compassion-focused and trauma-informed care
COACHING vs THERAPY
Coaching and therapy both honor your story — but in different ways. Therapy often looks to the past for healing; coaching focuses on how you can live from that healing now. Together, they can complement one another beautifully.
THERAPY
COACHING
Focused on past trauma
Seeks to understand trauma but only to allow us to move ahead – future-facing.
Offers assessments and diagnoses
Recognizes the individuality of each person; avoids labels and instead focuses on acceptance of the whole person.
Often long-term, deep work. Conversation can be paired with medication.
Work includes strategies to de-escalate anxiety, more focused on present challenges to overcome while still recognizing the full journey
Led by a clinician, licensed as a therapist with training in multiple science-based modalities including CBT, EDMR, psychotherapy, DSM diagnoses.
Facilitated by a mentor who may have training in specific modalities like breathwork, EDMR, or trauma-informed practices but is not a licensed clinician.
Meet Tiffini
Like we all are, I am a mosaic, a blend of fragility and strength, of brokenness and wholeness. My passion is working with others because I believe that sharing our stories creates connection and connection fuels safety. In my journey through the fire, I’ve soaked in as much learning and training as I can because doing so allowed me to feel safe. Creativity has allowed me to feel free. Developing Storynlight is the fulfillment of a lifelong mission to show truth to survivors of all kinds of trauma: you are not alone.
You can read more about me here, but below are some of the parts that make up who I am. I am:
- Certified as a MAP (certified medical accompaniment person)
- Certified as a GAL (Guardian ad Litem) serving children in dependency care
- Compassion-focused, trauma-informed coach by Soul Institute
- Trauma-Informed Certified Coach by International Practitioners of Holistic Medicine
- Certified in breathwork
- Volunteer as a hotline specialist for RAINN
- Member of the RAINN Speaker Bureau
- Member of the Board of Directors for ANA’s Friends
- Creator of the HERO and ashRISE workshops for survivors
- Author of 15 Published Books
- Facilitator of the online book club, Chapter Chats
- Area Revenue Management Director for Hospitality industry
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