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Hi, I'm Dunya Cope, LPC. I live in Flagstaff AZ and see clients throughout Arizona via telehealth. I love bringing authenticity and collaboration to the therapeutic relationship and working with folks who want something different for themselves and need a fresh perspective to help them get there. I'm also into roller derby, dance, comedy, magic, nature, and shifting the world by shifting how we show up in relationships.
My approach
I view therapy as a collaborative and creative process. I want to understand your stuck points and find creative, compassionate ways to move into more positive relationships with self and others, while celebrating your strengths and agency. I am trained in Somatic Experiencing and the NeuroAffective Relational Model (NARM) for treating trauma; these modalities guide what I pay attention and the questions I ask in session to support safety, regulation and agency. I use other therapeutic tools as necessary to help build new skills and shift thought patterns and the ways we relate to ourselves and others.
My focus
I love working with people who are going off-book from social scripts! I am a later in life queer and I love working with alternative relationship structures, gender journeys, and sexual identities. I love supporting deep relating, I love working with people who want to save the world but are still figuring themselves out, and I love working with integrating non-ordinary states of consciousness. I have a deep commitment to social justice and integrate anti-oppressive lenses into my work.
My communication style
I highly value authenticity in my work; I welcome all of your parts (even the ones that are hard to hold), and bring a lot of myself to the table as well. I love asking questions to understand you and help you understand yourself, your stuck points, and the strengths that you might not even see, and offering body-inclusive practices for regulation and to help deepen into new realities.
My journey to mental healthcare
My journey has evolved over time, from working in migrant and domestic violence shelters in my 20s, to focusing on developing deep skills for working with trauma, to seeing relationships as the key to social transformation. At this point in my life, I want to support people in finding deep approval of their messy selves, and growing in the relational skills that they need for a true sense of connection and belonging.
My goals for you
My approach to goals is more qualitative than quantitative. I'm not actually here to be your accountability buddy, but to help you understand what you long for and to support you in deepening your embodiment of the practices and qualities that will help you feel more like the person you want to be.
My first session with you
I want to understand as much of the context of your life as necessary to start pin pointing what you want for yourself at this point in your life, and what brought you to therapy at this moment. We might not fully make a plan in our first session, but we will get to know each other, understand what therapy might look like, and start identifying key themes of the work.
