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Nancy Aldrich-Ruenzel

Marriage Family Therapist Trainee
​Tel: (510) 496 6002 ext. 4
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“The wound is the place where the Light enters you."
​–Rumi

Nancy is warm, accepting, patient, intuitive, curious, and heart-centered. She has an integrative, client-centered approach drawing on a variety of different therapy approaches, many of which she has experienced personally. She uses present centered awareness with empathic attunement and resonance.
Nancy helps clients look for signs that their own internal voice is speaking to them, such as through dreams, imagination, the expressive arts and noticing synchronicities (those unexpected coincidences in life). She draws from the arts, music, literature, philosophy, energy and spiritual psychology.  She believes deeply in the mind and body’s ability to heal itself once we are free of defining ourselves by our past memories, and unconscious beliefs. She works with all cultural identities and strives to practice with cultural humility. She brings her whole self to the process, with a deep compassion and inner knowing of the client’s power for healing and change.
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Nancy brings a personal understanding of complex grief and trauma. Before graduate school, she worked with grief and had experience with widows and widowers. She has lived and worked in different countries. She speaks German fluently and minimal French and Spanish.

Nancy has several decades of experience as a publisher of trade and educational books, online courses and conferences in the creative arts and technology fields. Her experience in these areas has greatly informed her work with clients, by bringing a creative perspective to exploring their internal processes and dynamics.

Clinical areas of interest:
 
Grief and loss
Life passages and transitions for 50+
Parenting/mothering
Spirituality
Leadership


Nancy Aldrich-Ruenzel is a Marriage and Family Therapist Trainee. She is currently a student at Pacifica Graduate Institute participating in the Masters in Counseling Psychology program. She also holds a Grief Support Specialist Certificate from University of Wisconsin.She is supervised by Kristina Kopko, LMFT, License #53393.
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Heart in Balance Counseling Center
6536 Telegraph Avenue, Suite C 201
Oakland, CA 94609
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Tel: (510) 496 6002 ext. 1
Email: administration@heartinbalancetherapy.com
Heart in Balance is a non-profit, 501(C)3, training and counseling center, in Oakland California, that provides integrative approaches to working with a diverse community of clients and programs. 

Our therapists are Registered Marriage Family Therapist Associates, Post Graduate Trainees and Trainees in Practicum, who possess a broad range of approaches, experience and perspectives. 

We provide both short and long-term psychotherapy to individuals, couples, family, children, and adolescents. We make sessions available with affordable and sliding scale fees.
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  • About Us
  • Meet our Team
    • Therapists
    • Board of Directors
  • Groups
  • Training
    • Supervisor Program
    • Associate Program
    • Trainee in Practicum Program
  • Support Us
  • Current Clients
  • Contact