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Located in the heart of Ocala, Florida, From the Heart Counseling is dedicated to guiding individuals, couples, and families toward healing, growth, and empowerment. With an extensive range of services tailored to meet diverse needs, we provide a compassionate space where every individual is valued, supported, and equipped to navigate life's challenges.
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Why Choose From the Heart Counseling?
From the Heart Counseling Services, located in Ocala, Florida, is home to an experienced and compassionate team dedicated to providing a supportive and nurturing environment where clients feel seen, heard, and valued. The team combines evidence-based therapeutic techniques with a client-centered approach, tailoring care to each individual’s unique needs, experiences, and goals. Their methods also incorporate holistic and innovative approaches, allowing care to remain flexible, thoughtful, and responsive to each client’s journey.
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Whether someone is navigating personal challenges, working to deepen or repair relationships, or seeking support for stress, trauma, pain, or major life transitions, From the Heart Counseling Services is there to provide compassionate guidance. The practice believes in creating a collaborative partnership that helps clients develop tools, strategies, and greater insight as they work toward peace, balance, healing, and personal growth. At From the Heart Counseling Services in Ocala, Florida, supporting each client’s well-being and helping them rediscover hope is at the heart of everything they do.
Dr. Sabra E. Lunday has written You Make Sense: Understanding Your Story. Honoring Your Survival, and Finding Your Way Home, a thoughtful book centered on understanding your story, honoring what you have survived, and reconnecting with yourself. We are so excited to celebrate this milestone and share her work with the community.
Dr. Sabra E. Lunday Is Now an Author!
Healing, Growth, and Empowerment
We breathe as one, I am safe
I feel her pain, joy, compassion, anxiety, depression and live her life experiences
If she is anxious or fearful, I am born activated
If she is calm, I am peaceful
I push from her warmth into a cold, bright lit room
I am ripped away screaming and crying
It is not a natural cry but rather a primal sound. I cannot be consoled
I sit on my bed and cry, I want to be comforted. I don’t belong, life is too difficult, i want to be saved, where is my knight and shining armor, my biological mother
I am attached to everyone or I am attached to no one
I love or I am angry, I am good or I am bad
Who do I look and sound like, do I have siblings, who am I?
I have this pain that goes to my soul, it is a gaping wound that cannot be fully healed
It is a primal wound
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This is not about speaking disparagingly about our adoptive parents
It is trying to maneuver adoptive family dynamics we are unfamiliar with or it is trying to maneuver biological family dynamics that we are strangers to, it can be both and we are trying to walk that fine line so family members are not hurt or become angry
It is about sharing our journey, discussing topics no one else would understand
It is grieving my biology and culture that has been forgotten
It is pain to my core
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Baby Cristina/Dr. Lunday