Sia Wiese

I come to this work shaped by a layered and evolving story. I was raised in poverty by a father whose disability and personal struggles limited our emotional connection, and a mother whose unresolved pain made caregiving emotionally complex and often wounding. Growing up within a fundamentalist belief system, I’ve spent much of my life unlearning what no longer serves and reimagining what healing, belonging, and freedom can look like. I am a married, first-generation college graduate living with invisible chronic health issues, and a neurodivergent and queer person with white European, Indigenous, and Jewish ancestry. Spiritually seeking, I am drawn to the sacred revealed through slowness, complexity, ritual, and embodied presence. I speak beginner-level Spanish and some Arabic and bring years of experience working alongside individuals affected by migration, displacement, and the complexities of legal and cultural belonging. My personal and professional life has also included solidarity with those resisting colonial violence, grounding me in the belief that healing is political, embodied, and collective. These lived experiences led me to become a counselor and continue to inform my commitment to social justice, somatic abolition, and healing that centers the wisdom of the body, community, and spirit. 

My therapeutic approach is relational at its core. I believe the counseling relationship is sacred ground—an active space where we can play, explore, and begin to heal soul wounds often formed in relationship. I aim to help you weave your past into future possibilities, reconnecting with your inner wisdom and capacity for transformation. I do not pathologize or reduce clients to diagnoses. Instead, I work more energetically and emotionally than cognitively, attuned to the body, nervous system, and spirit.

I do not pathologize or reduce clients to diagnoses or symptoms. Instead, I work more energetically and emotionally than cognitively, attending to the subtle cues of the body, the nervous system, and the spirit.

I draw from Liberation Psychology, Indigenous Two-Eyed Seeing, Womanist Theory, and various counseling frameworks rooted in the work of Franz Fanon and Paulo Freire. I also integrate Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), somatic abolitionist (Resmaa Menakem), ritual and ceremony, and somatic methods that help us return to ourselves, each other, our ancestors, and the Earth. 

My work is grounded in the values of reciprocity, mutual aid, healing justice, disability justice, and anti-oppression. I believe healing is not only possible—it is collective. I will encourage people to engage in group healing spaces as a way to reclaim connection, power, and communal care. In our work together, I strive to co-create spaces that honor complexity, center dignity, and welcome the full range of your experience—especially for those navigating trauma, marginalization, or disconnection from systems of power and belonging.

I work with adults (18+) navigating religious trauma, spiritual transformation, recovery from familial abuse or neglect, emotionally immature or absent caregivers. I support those carrying inter-generational trauma, second- and third-generation immigrant pain, and chronic health conditions that stem from trauma. I welcome queer and neurodivergent folks, and those purposely marginalized by the systems of oppression, seeking a non-pathologizing and liberatory space to heal. 

I’m currently earning my Master’s in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from Wayne State College. I offer individual therapy via telehealth, with limited in-person availability anticipated in summer 2025, and low cost sliding scale.  Email me for more information.