For therapists & providers
You have done the harder work. Sometimes a client understands their story clearly and still cannot settle, because the nervous system learned to stay braced long before words were involved.
Drawing on Polyvagal Theory, we help clients recognize their own states, mobilized and protective or withdrawn and shut down, and notice the cues of safety and threat their body is responding to. From there they practice small, repeatable ways to steady themselves and return to connection. It is skills practice in the body, offered alongside the work you are already doing.
Our work is educational and supportive. It complements clinical care, it never replaces it, and we say so to every client.
If someone arrives who needs clinical care, we say so directly and encourage them back to you.
Give your client or patient the Provider Resource, or send them to startingpointconsulting.com. No referral, form, or paperwork is required from you.
The individual decides whether to reach out, then books directly. We say plainly if we are not the right support.
With the client’s written consent, we’re glad to coordinate with you, confirming they connected and sharing what we’re focusing on, at whatever level of detail your client authorizes.
Darlene Erich, MBA, BSN, RN
Healthcare Executive · Nervous System Leadership Educator
Decades in critical care, palliative care, and hospice nursing; healthcare executive leadership; pilates teacher trainer and educator; trauma-informed education and nervous system regulation.
Training
We hold what clients share in confidence. With their written consent, we can confirm they connected with us and share the focus of our work at whatever level of detail they authorize. Without that consent, we will not confirm or discuss anyone’s participation.
