About Me

Stacy Ruse, LPC

I focus on providing transformative training courses, consultation, and resources that integrate EMDR, somatic therapies, and parts work-informed models—all infused with a transpersonal twist.

I believe in the innate wisdom within each of us —our most authentic Self. By cultivating Self-energy, you access expansive, loving, and healing inner resources that guide you through the complexities of being human.

My work is dedicated to supporting therapists and healers in expressing their highest, most aligned selves—in life, work, and play.

Please note: I am not affiliated with the IFS institute.

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All Welcome with Love.

I am committed to providing an inclusive and welcoming environment for all. My practice strives not to discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, age, disability, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic.

I wholeheartedly believe in treating all individuals with respect, dignity, and compassion, and in creating a safe and supportive space for everyone who seeks services with Aglow.

✨ What if your nervous system could find relief through the gentle power of touch and memory processing — together?

Clinical EFT and EMDR Tapping for Trauma weaves two evidence-based modalities into a seamless, body-honoring approach to healing.

Whether you're new to tapping or already trained in EMDR, this course opens a doorway to working with trauma in a more integrated, whole-person way.

It’s time to honor both the body's wisdom and the mind's capacity to release what it has long carried.

Explore the course at the link in my bio!

#EMDR #ClinicalEFT #TraumaTherapy #TherapistEvolution #SoulfulPractice #HeartCenteredHealing

Emotional pain isn't the problem - it's the vehicle 🚗💫

Our "It Is OK To Feel Awful" booklet offers a radical reframe: your most uncomfortable emotions aren't obstacles to healing, they're the pathways through. Sadness carries you toward happiness. Grief opens the door to joy. Anger fuels empowerment. Guilt reconnects you to others. Shame leads you home to worthiness.

This beautifully designed resource reminds us that emotional discomfort isn't something to fix or bypass - it's the very vehicle that transports us to the places we most want to go. When we stop resisting our feelings and start honoring them as messengers, everything shifts.

Download this booklet at the link in our bio and let it be a gentle companion for the days when you need permission to feel exactly what you're feeling. 🌸

#EmotionalWellness #ItIsOkToFeelAwful #SelfCompassion #EmotionalHealing #FreeResource

Somatic Therapy and Psychological Flexibility might sound like separate paths, but they're actually two sides of the same coin. One teaches us to listen to the body's language of sensation and survival responses. The other invites us to hold our experiences lightly enough that we can choose how we respond rather than react.

Our blog dives into this powerful pairing, exploring how befriending your somatic experience actually frees you to move through difficult emotions without getting stuck in them. The more grounded you become in your body, the more space you have to respond to life with intention rather than automation.

Read more at the link in our bio!

#SomaticTherapy #PsychologicalFlexibility #EmbodiedWisdom #TraumaInformed #MindfulMovement

Becoming a Certified Clinical Trauma Professional means committing to excellence in the field that matters most 🎓💫

This comprehensive certification offers advanced training in evidence-based trauma treatment, ethical practice, and the specialized skills needed to work effectively with complex trauma presentations.

This certification recognizes that trauma work requires not just techniques, but a specialized understanding of how trauma impacts the whole person. Learn more at the link in my bio!

#TraumaCertification #CCTP #ProfessionalDevelopment #TraumaTherapist #AdvancedTraining

Our most challenging questions become gifts when shared in sacred circle 🌟🤝

Group Consultation creates space for therapists to bring their most complex cases, vulnerable questions, and growing edges into a community that holds both expertise and heart.

Each session weaves clinical consultation with soul-tending, recognizing that the work we do impacts us deeply and that we need spaces to process not just our cases, but our own responses to holding trauma. Together, we explore ethical dilemmas, treatment planning, and the personal journey of being wounded healers.

Join a circle of practitioners committed to growing together in skill, compassion, and integrity. 💫

Tap the link in our bio to learn more!

#TherapistCircle #ClinicalConsultation #HealingCommunity #WoundedHealers #PeerSupport

The key to nervous system regulation lives at your fingertips 🤲💚

"Unlocking the Healing Power of Trauma-Informed Tapping Techniques & Vagal Toning Exercises for Trauma" explores the profound intersection of EFT tapping and vagal nerve stimulation. These accessible practices offer direct pathways to shifting your nervous system state, releasing stored trauma, and restoring a sense of safety in your body.

This isn't just theory - it's practical, embodied wisdom you can use immediately for yourself or your clients.

Read more at the link in our bio!

#EFTTapping #VagalToning #TraumaInformed #NervousSystemHealing #SomaticTherapy

Mastering EMDR means becoming a witness to transformation 💫👁️

Through this EMDR Core Skills Certificate Training, you'll gain not just technical proficiency, but deep understanding of how bilateral stimulation facilitates the brain's natural healing process.

You'll learn the eight-phase protocol, adaptive information processing theory, and the art of holding space while clients reprocess traumatic material. But more than technique, you'll discover how to trust your clients' innate capacity for healing and how to create the safety necessary for profound transformation.

Check it out at the link in our bio!

#EMDRTraining #CertificationProgram #TraumaTherapy #EMDRTherapist #ProfessionalDevelopment

Your breath bridges the conscious and unconscious, mind and body 🌬️

Through conscious breathwork, we can access states of deep relaxation, emotional release, or energizing clarity. This practice honors the profound intelligence of the breath-body connection and offers gentle guidance for working with your respiratory system as a gateway to healing.

Whether you're seeking calm, release, or simply a deeper relationship with your breath, this video offers a sacred invitation. 💫 Check it out at the link in our bio!

#Breathwork #SomaticHealing #NervousSystemRegulation #ConsciousBreathing #MindBodyConnection

The most radical act is sometimes allowing yourself to truly rest 🌙💙

We’ve uploaded a practice to the Aglow YouTube that offers a soothing practice for those moments when you're running on empty. This isn't about pushing through or "fixing" yourself - it's about creating a soft place to land when your nervous system is asking for gentleness.

In just a short time, you can shift from depletion to restoration, from reactivity to responsiveness, from scattered to softly held. This practice is designed for real life - for therapists after a full day of sessions, parents at the end of their rope, or anyone who needs permission to pause and receive care.

Check it out at the link in our bio!

#RestAndRestore #NervousSystemHealing #SelfCompassion #GuidedRest #BurnoutPrevention

Creating sacred space requires both intention and skillful practice 🕯️✨

Our free "Gathering Space Protocol" resource offers practical guidance for therapists who want to cultivate truly safe containers for healing work. Whether you're facilitating individual sessions, groups, or workshops, this protocol helps you intentionally create the energetic and practical conditions that allow transformation to unfold.

From opening rituals to closing practices, from boundary-setting to energy awareness, this resource honors both the seen and unseen dimensions of therapeutic space. It recognizes that healing happens not just through technique, but through the quality of presence and safety we bring to our work.

Download this guide at the link in our bio and discover how to make your practice a true sanctuary. 🌿

#TherapeuticSpace #SacredContainer #TherapistResources #TraumaInformed #HealingSpace

Your energy centers hold ancient wisdom waiting to be remembered 🌈💫

Rainbow Body Meditation guides you through a beautiful practice of chakra balancing designed to restore peace and vitality to your entire being. This isn't just visualization - it's an invitation to work with the subtle energy systems that influence your physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being.

From root to crown, you'll journey through each chakra, offering attention, breath, and loving awareness to the centers that keep you grounded, creative, empowered, open-hearted, expressive, intuitive, and connected to something greater. This practice honors both ancient wisdom traditions and modern understanding of the mind-body connection.

Whether you're seeking balance, healing, or simply a deeper connection to your energetic self, this meditation offers a gentle pathway home. 🙏 Link in bio!

#ChakraBalancing #RainbowMeditation #EnergyHealing #GuidedMeditation #HolisticHealing

Ancient wisdom and modern psychology can dance together beautifully 🌙🃏

Our blog post "Embracing Inner Strength and Healing: IFS Therapy Archetypes & Therapeutic Tarot" explores the convergence of parts work and the archetypal wisdom of tarot. This isn't about fortune-telling - it's about using symbolic language to access deeper understanding of our internal parts and their sacred roles.

Through the lens of both parts work and tarot, we can recognize the archetypal patterns that show up in our parts - the Protector, the Wounded Child, the Wise Guide. These frameworks offer different doorways into the same truth: we contain multitudes, and each aspect deserves to be witnessed and honored.

Discover how these complementary approaches can deepen your parts work and offer new pathways to self-understanding. ✨

Curious about this sacred integration? Tap the link in our bio to learn more.

#TherapeuticTarot #ArchetypalHealing #PartsWork #SpiritualPsychology

Healing trauma through embodiment isn't theory - it's lived experience 💫🌊

Our EMDR Therapy video explores how bilateral stimulation combined with somatic awareness creates profound shifts in how trauma is held in the body. This isn't just about processing memories - it's about helping your nervous system finally complete the survival responses that got stuck during traumatic experiences.

Through this video, you'll understand how EMDR works with your body's natural healing mechanisms, why embodiment is essential to trauma processing, and how this approach honors both the wisdom of your nervous system and the resilience of your spirit.

Whether you're considering EMDR for yourself or curious about how it works as a therapeutic tool, this resource offers compassionate, accessible insight into this powerful modality. 🌿

Check it out at the link in our bio.

#EMDRTherapy #TraumaHealing #EmbodiedHealing #SomaticTherapy #NervousSystemHealing

Parts Work can sound complex - until suddenly it clicks 💡✨

Our free resource, "Demystifying Internal Family Systems (IFS) Therapy," breaks down this revolutionary approach into accessible, practical wisdom. Whether you're a therapist curious about adding this to your practice or someone seeking to understand your own inner landscape, this guide offers clear pathways into the world of parts work.

Discover the basics of Self-energy, learn to recognize common protective and exile parts, and understand how unburdening creates lasting transformation. This resource makes the sophisticated simplicity of parts work available to anyone ready to explore the multiplicity within.

Download this guide and begin your journey into the compassionate framework that's transforming how we understand healing. 🌱Link in bio!

#PartsWork #FreeResource #SelfCompassionJourney

Your body is always speaking - are you listening? 🧘‍♀️🌿

In this video, we offer a gentle practice designed to shift your energies and reset your nervous system. This isn't about perfect poses or flexibility - it's about using mindful movement to create dialogue with your body, release stored tension, and invite your system back into balance.

Each movement is an invitation to befriend your embodied experience, to notice where you hold stress, and to create space for emotions and sensations that want to move through you. Whether you're a seasoned yogi or completely new to movement practices, this session meets you exactly where you are.

Watch now at the link in our bio!

#TherapeuticYoga #NervousSystemReset #MindfulMovement #SomaticHealing #EmbodiedWisdom

Profound wisdom lives in the collective circle 🌕💫

Group Consultation offers fellow therapists a sacred container where we can learn from each other's experiences, hold space for complex cases, and remember that we don't have to navigate this challenging work alone. In the safety of community, we find both practical guidance and soul-level support.

These sessions honor the reality that healing work can feel isolating, and that sometimes the most valuable insights emerge when we allow ourselves to be vulnerable about our struggles, questions, and growing edges. Together, we explore clinical challenges while also tending to the personal impact of holding space for trauma.

This isn't just case consultation - it's a gathering of hearts committed to doing this work with integrity, compassion, and mutual support. 🙏Join our consultation circle: https://tinyurl.com/dt3a4n3b

#GroupConsultation #TherapistSupport #HealingCommunity #TherapistsOfInstagram #CollectiveWisdom

Your heart knows things your mind hasn't discovered yet 💗🌺

Our latest blog explores 5 Therapeutic Heart-Opening Practices that invite you to cultivate inner harmony through the wisdom of the heart. These aren't just metaphorical practices - they're embodied invitations to literally shift your nervous system state, access deeper compassion, and reconnect with your innate capacity for love.

From heart-centered breathing to compassion meditations, these practices offer pathways to soften the protective walls we've built and remember the tender strength that lives within. Whether you're a therapist seeking new tools or someone on your own healing journey, these practices meet you with gentleness and grace.

Discover how opening your heart can transform your relationship with yourself and others. 🌿

Tap the link in our bio to read more!

#HeartCentered #InnerHarmony #TherapeuticPractices #CompassionPractice #HealingFromWithin

Every part of you deserves a voice, a witness, and unconditional love 💚🗝️

“IFS Therapy Core Skills Certificate Training” offers comprehensive immersion into one of the most revolutionary approaches to healing: Internal Family Systems. This isn't just learning a technique - it's transforming how you understand the human psyche and your own capacity for compassion.

Through this certification, you'll gain deep fluency in working with parts, accessing Self-energy, facilitating unburdening, and creating the conditions for profound internal transformation. You'll learn to guide clients (and yourself) toward the Self-leadership that naturally emerges when all parts feel heard and honored.

This training changes therapists because it first changes how we relate to ourselves. When we befriend our own internal system, we naturally become better at holding space for others to do the same. 🌟

Remember: We don't fix parts - we simply help them find their way home to Self.
Ready to become a certified practitioner? Learn more at the link in my bio!

#CertificationTraining #SelfLeadership #TherapistTraining

Truly seeing yourself with love transforms everything 👁️💗

"Beholding the Self: A Guided Practice of Sacred Self-Perception" invites you into a transformative meditation that shifts how you relate to your own being. This isn't about positive affirmations or forced self-love - it's about the profound practice of witnessing yourself with the same compassion you'd offer a beloved friend.

Through gentle guidance, you'll explore the difference between beholding and judging, perceiving and critiquing, honoring the sacred wholeness that you already are. This practice can be especially powerful for those working with inner critic parts, shame, or the journey toward radical self-acceptance.

Remember: You are worthy of being beheld - not because of your accomplishments, but simply because you exist. ✨More at the link in my bio!

#SelfCompassion #GuidedMeditation #SacredSelfCare #InnerFriendship

Integration is where the magic truly happens 🔮✨

Our free resource, "10 Anchors for Integrative Unburdening," offers practical tools to support the sacred work of releasing patterns that no longer serve while integrating new ways of being. Whether you're working with Parts Work, EMDR, or other trauma modalities, these anchors help create stability during the profound shifts that healing brings.

Unburdening isn't just about letting go - it's about creating space for something new to emerge. These practices honor both the courage it takes to release old patterns and the tenderness required to welcome new possibilities.

Download this resource at the link in my bio and discover grounding techniques, reflection prompts, and embodied practices to support your (or your clients') integration journey. 🌿

#IntegrationWork #Unburdening #FreeResource #TraumaHealing

Your breath can bring you home when the world feels too much 🌬️🏡

Our newest guided meditation offers a gentle pathway back to your center through grounding and healing practices. In just a few minutes, you can shift from overwhelm to presence, from scattered to settled, from disconnected to deeply rooted in your own being.

This practice is designed for those moments when you need immediate support - before a challenging session, after difficult news, or simply when your nervous system needs reminding that it's safe to rest. No experience necessary, just a willingness to pause and return to yourself.

Remember: Grounding isn't about pushing away your feelings - it's about creating a stable foundation from which you can hold all of your experience. 🌱

Ready to come home to yourself? Check out the link in our bio.

#GuidedMeditation #GroundingPractice #NervousSystemHealing #Mindfulness #SelfCare

True support comes from being deeply seen by another soul 🌟💫

Soulfull Consultation offers a sacred space for therapists seeking guidance that honors both clinical expertise and intuitive wisdom. Whether you're navigating complex cases, exploring the integration of spiritual approaches in your practice, or simply needing to be held by someone who understands the profound responsibility of this work, these sessions create room for authentic dialogue.

This isn't traditional clinical supervision - it's a heart-centered collaboration that recognizes you as a whole person, not just a professional. Together, we'll explore the intersection of your therapeutic gifts, personal journey, and the sacred work of holding space for transformation.

Because true healing begins when healers themselves feel witnessed, supported, and celebrated in their own evolution. 🙏

It’s time to experience consultation that feeds your soul. Link in bio!

#TherapistSupport #ClinicalSupervision #SoulfulPractice #TherapistEvolution #HealerHealing

Emotional freedom lives in the practice of gentle return 🦋✨

Our latest blog explores the transformative journey of Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT), a modality that invites us to literally tap into our body's innate capacity for healing. Through simple, rhythmic movements on meridian points, EFT offers a bridge between ancient wisdom and modern trauma-informed care.

The power of EFT lies in its accessibility - clients can use these techniques independently, creating a sense of agency in their own healing process. From anxiety to trauma memories, from limiting beliefs to physical pain, EFT meets us where we are with compassion and curiosity.

Discover how this gentle practice can support your healing journey or enhance your therapeutic toolkit. 🌿

Read more at the link in our bio!

#EFTTapping #EmotionalFreedom #SelfHealing #TraumaInformed #HealingFromWithin

Precision and compassion both matter when wounds and complex patterns intertwine.

EMDR for Trauma and Addiction addresses one of the most challenging presentations in therapeutic work: clients whose trauma and substance use have become inseparably woven. This specialized training guides you through the delicate art of processing trauma while honoring the protective function that addiction has served.

You'll learn step-by-step protocols for safely navigating EMDR with dual diagnosis clients, creating containers strong enough for deep work while maintaining the stability necessary for recovery. This isn't about treating two separate conditions - it's about understanding the sacred wholeness that exists beneath both.

Remember: Addiction often represents the nervous system's best attempt at self-regulation. When we heal the underlying trauma, true recovery becomes possible. 🙏

Expand your capacity for this complex work at the link in my bio!

#EMDRTherapy #TraumaAndAddiction #DualDiagnosis #AddictionRecovery #TraumaInformed

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