Hi, I’m Adrienne.

I’m a trained Buddhist Meditation Teacher, Psychotherapist, Somatic Dance Movement Therapist, certified IFS parts-work and certified Feeding Your Demons practitioner. I am also a queer woman, mother, dancer, 20 year recovery/ALANONer, collage maker, beach & dog lover that DJs a monthly somatic dance party called Dharma Disco. I blend east and west parts-work and dharma healing arts together to offer a truly unique way to heal and grow.

My AWAKEN parts-work is a unique blend of Creative and Dharma (Buddhist) Arts with Internal Family Systems (IFS). is about bringing radical Self-awareness to meet all parts of you and your embodied spirit. I teach not just IFS, but AWAKEN IFS so that clients may have the embodied, somatic experience of Self deeply caring for their system of parts with the help of Buddhist practices such as awareness, mindfulness & compassion. In AWAKEN IFS there is also a special emphasis on Archetypes, Ancestors, guides and embodied connections to Source for resourcing.  I have been devoted to the experiential education of IFS and believe that learning IFS is always done best through experiencing the model first-hand and then allowing intellectual parts to to help with integration. 

I’ve walked the winding road of mental health, attachment wounds & repair, recovery, divorce, coming out, creative and spiritual reclamation of authenticity & honoring my truth. I’ve been the family helper, the misunderstood one, and the creative outlier woo woo weirdo in clinical rooms. I’ve also been the one dancing through complex grief, becoming a death doula, alchemizing through music, movement and meditation, calling in the creative community, and refusing to let my spark go out.

I’m here to support: helping professionals, psychotherapists, performing/teaching artists, creatives, spiritual seekers and anyone curious about the intersection of Buddhist psychotherapy, parts-work & dharma arts. My clients are ready to live from their internal Self-leadership- not external expectations. 

If you’re looking to get unstuck as a creative professional, performing artist or person in long-term recovery, you have found the right place. We can deepen your own inner-connection to your body, your creative intuition and the original joy that the arts and being of service has been for you to help the parts of you that feel stuck now.

If you are ready to deepen your emotional intimacy, connect to your spiritual purpose, and experience your body mind & spirit healing as an expressive, spiritual and liberating process, welcome.

THE AWAKEN INSTITUTE

The AWAKEN Institute is a network of providers that have trained directly with Adrienne Glasser in AWAKEN IFS or are in active consultation. In addition to receiving training in AWAKEN IFS, some providers are also trained/and or certified in programs provided by the IFS Institute.

All AWAKEN Institute providers have all received specific training in AWAKEN IFS education principals such as basic meditation and compassion practice, somatic practices based in authentic movement, dance therapy principals somatic parts-work, in addition to the teachings of Internal Family Systems equivalent to Level 1 training or above.

All AWAKEN Institute providers have all received specific training in AWAKEN IFS education principals such as basic meditation and compassion practice, somatic practices based in authentic movement, dance therapy principals somatic parts-work, in addition to the teachings of Internal Family Systems equivalent to Level 1 training or above.

AWAKEN Institute is composed of professionals who educate their clients on AWAKEN IFS principles, self-care, and meditation practices. While these providers may have licences to practice psychotherapy, our helping professionals are also experiential educators and meditation instructors. All providers are both LGBTQIA+ affirming and culturally affirming, understanding the importance of intersectionality as it pertains to parts that have experienced both oppression and privilege.