“Hey Andrew, I love your holistic approach.”
It’s something I hear often. And I appreciate the sentiment—
the sense that the work feels spacious, connected, attentive to more than just the surface.
But truthfully, I’ve never quite felt at home using that word to describe what I do.
Not because I don’t care about the full person—far from it—
but because holistic often implies we can see or treat the whole.
And I don’t believe healing—or being human—works like that.
Each person arrives with layers:
physical, emotional, ancestral, relational.
Some speak clearly. Others move quietly.
What surfaces in a session isn’t the full picture—
it’s what’s ready to be seen, felt, or met now.
So instead of “holistic,” I lean toward language like:
🌀 multi-systemic
🤝 relational
These words feel more grounded.
They name the complexity of what we’re working with—
nervous system, fascia, breath, story, presence—
without pretending we can hold all of it at once.
The work isn’t about fixing the whole.
It’s about meeting what’s here—gently, curiously, respectfully.
And often, that’s where the deepest change begins.