Can a genuine, warm connection with another person facilitate healing and enhance your well-being? YES!
Relational Healing Through Trusted Touch and Connection - Allowing for a Corrective Emotional Experience
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Do you have a client that you’d like to refer? Grab these two downloads: one for your client, and one for you. Would you like to chat about the case? Let’s connect!
Let’s Collaborate!
Working in collaboration, often called “the triadic model” is not only super helpful for your client, it can be a rewarding experience for the clinician and the touch-practitioner. By working in collaboration, the care team can more holistically support the client in meeting their goals. Please reach out to discuss your potential case.
"Michelle Renee is a gifted [practioner], who I had the joy of working with this past fall (2022 ). Michelle responded promptly to my inquiry, initially we met on FaceTime, where her knowledge and awareness of the triadic relationship of surrogate work was clearly communicated.
During the initial 3 way meeting with my client, her warmth, sensual and sexual knowledge along with a clear sense of professional boundaries was easily communicated. She presents her authentic self with a healthy sense of humor and naturalness.
As she worked with my client she made valuable astute observations along with well crafted and detailed written feedback of her sessions with the client. My client was very pleased and benefited greatly from the work.
It is with great pleasure that I recommend Michelle as a surrogate partner and colleague.
Additionally, I want to thank Andrew Hartman co-creator of Surrogate Partner Collective for referring me to Michelle.”
—Bryce Britton, MS (California)
"Michelle is one of the most compassionate and thoughtful human beings on this planet. Not only that but Michelle is extremely, and I mean extremely, dedicated to her work. She is constantly doing more to expand the field, serve her community, open doors for clients and clinicians. Michelle lobbied me to do a course on Surrogate Partner Therapy (SPT) which was tremendously helpful in our clinical work together. She is consistently learning more about different therapeutic techniques and interventions. She even bought and read a dense trauma book made for clinicians to understand more about exposure therapy. Working with Michelle has truly opened my eyes to the immense power and healing of SPT. I am grateful that she was my first experience working with a surrogate partner and I know this relationship will go on for the rest of our careers."
—Vanessa Cushing, LPC (Virginia and Florida)
"[You are] the very smart trauma-informed [practioner] I’d most want to have a beer with because of your relatable and lively and playful self.”
— Sharyn Wolf, R-LCSW (New York)
“Few practitioners can blend their own humanity with their expertise as readily and sincerely as Michelle. Her openhearted, well-boundaried poise is the hallmark of her distinct brand of compassionate professionalism. Her character and practice model a soft power, firm courage, and guiding discipline that is aspirational to clients and colleagues alike.”
— Brandon Hunter-Haydon, MSW, CSE, RYT and Surrogate Partner