A Lifelong Learner, Adventurer, and Creative
LCMHC | BC-DMT | NCC | GL-CMA | BSE
Ande Welling
You were never meant to fit in a box. You've spent years keeping the peace, managing others, swallowing your truth, and bending yourself into shapes that don't fit. Your body is rebelling: the migraines, tension, anxiety, shutdown, numbness. It's all getting louder. A deeper part of you, the part that's tired of disappearing, whispers: I can't keep living like this. You're not dramatic. You're not failing. You're waking up.
I meet you in exactly this moment. Self-abandonment has hit its limit. Your truth wants out. Our work is alive, relational, rooted in the present. Together, we reclaim your voice and step out of boxes that no longer fit.
Each stop along the way has deepened my belief in our inherent wisdom.
A wisdom that often shows up as stuck places, obstacles, and pain points manifesting as defenses, protections, resistances. All began as brilliantly adaptive ways to deal with difficult life circumstances and all have the power to show us the pathway back home to ourselves.
Healing requires profound courage.
A courage that transcends, anchoring us as we spiral from the known to the unknown, illuminating the implicit and transforming it into the explicit, again and again and again.
I have been fortunate enough to travel with, learn from, and deep dive with those facing neurological injuries, emotional challenges, nervous system dysregulation, and traumas - relational, developmental, and shock.
I have also wholeheartedly committed to my own healing, surrendering into all I am so I am able to co-journey with others in the best way possible.
It is this personal work that has allowed me to expand, grow and cultivate my heartspace, creating a field of warmth and clarity for all who choose to enter.
I am also a writer, dancer, integrator, and lover of nature, fire, water, courage, authenticity and adventure.
While I often move tenderly towards the places that are scary, I have found that only by descending slowly into and through the pain points, stuck places, and burial grounds of our soul remnants can we build enough capacity to emerge and radically embody our joy, essence, compassion, and aliveness.
A seeker of curiosity, wonder, and wisdom sparkles.
I have long been drawn to inner worlds of human experience. This has often manifested in a deep curiosity, leading me on a winding path, exploring my own depths, devouring fields of study in interpersonal neurobiology, attachment theory, trauma healing, creative arts therapies, somatics and body wisdom, while learning to hold the human experience in a field of compassion.
I call this field the heartspace.
How We Work Together
Our work is alive, relational, rooted in the present. I use deep presence, attunement, and the wisdom of what emerges between us to help you speak your truth, take up space, and step out of patterns that no longer fit.
I draw from interpersonal neurobiology, somatic wisdom, and the creative arts, following what your body knows while supporting your mind to observe, connect and integrate. We don't need to go back and rehash all of your old wounds. Your present moment experiences will show us the way.
I move tenderly toward the places that are scary, descending slowly into and through the sore points, the stuck places, the burial grounds of old moments, and build enough capacity to emerge and radically embody your joy, essence, compassion, and aliveness.
Clinical Approach
Relational Neuroscience
How our nervous systems listen, attune, and learn from one another. Healing is relational all the way down.
Authentic Movement
In witnessed movement, things surface that words haven't found yet. The body leads. The witness holds.
Somatic and Expressive Arts
Your body carries more than words can reach. Somatic and expressive arts work is how we listen to what's held there.
Trauma-Focused, Growth-Oriented
Trauma-informed, body-led work that keeps your inherent capacity to heal in sight alongside the pain.
Attachment Theory
Our earliest experiences shape how we reach for connection and where we pull back. We go there together.
Pre and Perinatal Psychology
Reaching back to the very beginning, honoring what the body has carried since before memory.
License & Certifications
LCMHC
Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor
State of Utah #8939807-6004
NPI: 1689070625
BC-DMT
Board Certified Dance/Movement Therapist
American Dance Therapy Association
2015
NCC
Nationally Certified Counselor
National Board for Certified Counselors
2011
CCTP-II
Certified Clinical Trauma Professional
Level II: Complex Trauma
EMDR Trained
Trauma-Focused Processing
Education & Movement Training
GL-CMA
Graduate Laban Certificate in Movement Analysis
Laban/Bartenieff Institute
BSE
Becoming Safely Embodied
Certified Practitioner with Deirdre Fay
Immersive Studies
Relational Neuroscience
Multi-year immersion with Bonnie Badenoch
SHP
Sound Healer Practitioner
Soul Path Discoveries
Authentic Movement
Immersive study with Susan Cahill & Marcia Plevins
Featured Speaker
2024 Deirdre Fay’s Online Retreat - Rewiring the Threat System: Training the Body Mind Heart to Receive instead of Defend
2019 Aspire CEU Presentation - Navigating the Abyss: Finding the courage and acceptance to “naked hermit crab it” as a clinician while maintaining the ability to guide clients through their own abyss
2018 ADTA Conference Opening - Restoring Vitality: Harnessing the body’s innate wisdom to integrate trauma while building resiliency
2017 Aspire CEU Presentation - Dance/Movement Therapy Presentation on Trauma, Integration and Resiliency
2016 ADTA Webinar Series - The Gift of the Embodied Shadow
2015 ADTA Conference - The Gift of the Embodied Shadow
2014 Utah Mental Health Counselor Association Conference
2012 ADTA Conference - Exploring Vistas and Soaring to New Heights
2011 ADTA Conference - Moving Through Relationship: Giving and Receiving Support during Life’s Transitions
2009 ADTA Conference - Embodied Writing as a Research Technique
Creative Work
Seen at the Chicago Center for Arts + Design, World Film Festival, and Cinema Verde Environmental Film Festival
Performer with Core Project Chicago
Co-founder, dancer, choreographer of SolesBare Dance Collective
“Ande is able to guide her clients towards breathing new life and courage into the beautiful, wise, authentic core she knows is hidden underneath.”
-ANNE C.
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