I Am North.
And So Are You.
There is a direction inside you that has always known the way.
Brittany Purrington, LMHCA, LPC, CIT
Sensitivity is not the problem. Ignoring it is. Your emotions aren't something to manage or think your way past — they're messengers. Data. The most honest information you have about what's true for you.
Healing isn't a destination. It's a daily practice of attuning to what you feel — and learning to act from there. This is self-loyalty. This is what it means to orient toward your inner north.
ON NORTHBOUND
my journey
I know this not just as a therapist — but as someone who has walked it herself. My own confrontation with the script I'd been living. The slow, sometimes terrifying work of finding out who I was underneath it. Facing what scared me. Staying soft enough to feel it. Still believing something real was waiting on the other side.
And there is.
The lesson I came away with:
I am north.
Not my partner. Not my family. Not the culture that told me how to be “good”. Me — worth orienting toward, again and again.
And so are you.
The practice of traveling northbound accumulates. It doesn't announce itself. But one day you look up — and you can see how far you've come. That's the work. That's what we're building.
My approach
The work we do together goes beyond what you already know about yourself. Beyond the story, beyond the insight, into what the body is holding and the parts of you that learned to hide long before you had words for any of it. That's where something actually shifts.
I'm trained in relational psychodynamic and attachment-based therapy, IFS, somatic work, and expressive arts. The feminist and cultural lens is always present — because your pain doesn't exist in isolation from the world that shaped you, and neither do I.
This is a space where all of you can be. Where you can show up without having it together, without fitting a certain box. You just have to arrive — and I'll be there with you.
What Colleagues Say
Credentials
Licensed Professional Counselor, Kansas (04961) Licensed Mental Health Counselor Associate, Washington (MC61458958). Counselor in Training, Missouri at gokc Healing Center, LLC
Master of Arts in Clinical Mental Health Counseling & Expressive Arts Therapy, Lesley University
Advanced training in:
Relational Psychodynamic Therapy
Internal Family Systems (IFS) Level 1
Attachment-based Post Adoption Therapy Expressive Arts Therapy
Missouri supervision provided by Marrissa Rhodes, LPC (202001839)
Washington supervision provided by Rosalie Salazar, LMHC (LH6118078)
Kansas supervision provided by Marrissa Rhodes, LCPC (03351)
You don't have to have it all figured out to reach out. You just have to feel — even quietly, even uncertainly — that something needs to change.
That feeling is your inner north speaking.