Compassionate presence for challenging times
Individual and relationship counselling, creative inquiry and body-based therapy in Oslo, Norway and online.
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Welcome, I’m so glad you are here 🌱
I am Kirien Eyma, a somatic and relational therapeutic practitioner who combines counselling and talk therapy with creative and body-based methods — with individuals, couples and other people in close relationships. I offer slow, spacious, non-directive and non-pathologising spaces for people to meet themselves more deeply — their needs, values, beliefs, ways of making meaning, and ways of showing up in relationship with others.
Sessions with me can take many shapes — talking through an issue that’s on your mind, perhaps while looking at some colourful drawings together, receiving supportive touch, being guided through a meditative visualisation, or something else altogether. I meet you with compassion and curiosity, as a co-explorer rather than an expert who knows exactly how to fix you.
You can work with me in-person in Oslo, Norway or online anywhere in the world; primarily in English, sometimes in Norwegian, and a tiny bit in Mandarin Chinese (for the occasional concept that can’t be expressed in another language).
I also have ongoing group offerings that are mostly donation-based and open to anyone, as well as free guided meditations you can enjoy on InsightTimer and Youtube.
When you need someone to talk to
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Existential & Relational Counselling for Individuals
1-1 conversation and dialogue-based support with an existential and relational orientation.
“Existential” broadly means, that I am particularly (but not exclusively) interested in topics related to meaning, purpose, values, identity, choices, impermanence, uncertainty, worldviews and belief systems, and being with the “big questions” in life which do not have easy answers.
Relational means that I am also interested in what specifically happens between us — when two humans meet and share space in this particular way. I might ask questions like: what’s it like to share this with me? What’s it like to hear me reflect these words back to you? What do you notice, being here with me right now?
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Co-Facilitated Couples & Relationship Counselling
Support for couples (and other relationship constellations) co-led with my life partner, Soren Stone.
Our primary offering is sessions that involve both of us, and both (or all) of you together. We meet your relationship as the object of our meditation, inviting curiosity and increased capacity to stay present with what and how it is right now — without rushing to explain or problem-solve it away.
There is also the possibility for couples to have 1-1 sessions, one with each of us, at the same time as ongoing 2-2 sessions. This time can also be used to work on things that are not directly connected to the relationship.
Creative & body-based methods
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Guided Self-Inquiry with Tarot
What do you notice when you look at this image here? What draws your attention, and what thoughts and emotions come up in response? What information might your own reactions to a set of “random” images, have to give you about the topic you are bringing to the session?
When there is something you want to talk through, but the words are lacking (or getting you running in circles in your mind), a tarot deck might be able to help — not as fortune telling, but as a creative, imagery-based way of thinking and processing.
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Reiki + Sound Therapy (in person)
When you are feeling burned out, overworked, overstimulated, constantly taking care of others and struggling to get in touch with your own needs, a space where your only “job” is to lay back and allow yourself to be cared for might be exactly what your heart and body needs.
I place my warm and relaxed hands, very lightly on your body — communicating steady presence and relational contact, without you needing to do anything in return to entertain me. If desired, I can also play singing bowls on your body for a deep and grounding vibrational massage.
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Shamanic Reiki Healing
A dream-like experience that combines deep relaxation and supportive touch with a guided imagery-based journey. You choose a place on Earth for me to begin the story — any place that has personal significance to you — and I simply follow whatever images appear in my mind while sharing them out loud.
It’s a bit like a long guided meditation, improvised on the spot, made just for you. I do not claim to know what the images mean for you, but I can support you to arrive at your own conclusions.
Would you like to combine multiple practices, or are not sure what you want?
I offer session lengths of: 60 minutes, 90 minutes, 2 hours, and 3 hours. You are very welcome to book a session by length of time rather than by “type”. For longer sessions, you may select multiple specific practices (for example: “Reiki + tarot” or “Reiki + counselling”) when booking, if you already know that is what you want. It is also ok to come to a session not knowing what you want or what might actually be helpful — trying out different practices and seeing how they work for you can be what we do together.
Belonging is something we practice in community
Private sessions behind closed doors with one (or two) practitioners can only go so far, when it comes to healing wounds of grief, loss, alienation, lack of meaning, and many other modern “ills” that are deeply intertwined with the conditions of the world that our bodies live in. I believe, deeply, that true and lasting healing requires community.
I have been holding space for others in structured ways continuously since age 11 — as volunteer work, unpaid work, community work, and donation-based work. I have, in my own way, very complicated feelings about capitalism and “turning my lifelong passion into a business”.
To remain in integrity with my own values and the path that has led me here, while still honouring my very human need for material sustenance and support, I have at all times, at least one ongoing group offering that is open to everyone and where donations are appreciated but optional.
These spaces are also designed as opportunities for you to practice being present with others — and perhaps, trying out a different way to show up in human connection. A way where all parts of you are welcome, and masking or performing is not necessary.
“At the very heart of ‘belonging’ is the word ‘long.’ To be-long to something is to stay with it for the long haul. It is an active choice we make to a relationship, to a place, to our body, to a life because we value it. Even knowing that it may not be all that we hope it to be, we are keeping the long view of what is possible, and our life becomes an offering to making it so.”
— Toko-Pa Turner