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SenseMakes, LLC

BEING IN THE WORLD

Welcome

Sunni & Brian

We offer rights-based services that move toward resilient and sustainable selves, relationships, and communities.

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Consultation Services

"if you want to improve the world, start by making people feel safe" Stephen Porges (2017)

$100-$150 per hour

Developing body-mind awareness that facilitates embodied safety and presence.

mental health counseling
trauma perspectives
embodied patterns
somatic experiences

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Trauma Counselor & Educator

absolute death
Mikhail Bakhtin
state of nonbeing
being unheard, unrecognized, unremembered

$100 per hour

Willingness to risk change in our perspective of selves, others, and the world we inhabit together

interpersonal growth
critical-cultural perspectives
qualitative approaches
communication processes

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Communicator & Organizer

communicating fully
Bessel van der Kolk (2014)
the opposite of being traumatized

Consultation: $100 per hour
Group: $50 per person

Expanding in our experiences of relationships in and through communication.

relational growth
autonomy-closeness
communication processes
family systems

love
bell hooks
cannot exist in the context of domination

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A relation between.

What Sets Us Apart?

A Rights-Based Approach

Our capacity to respond to both
trauma and oppression. 

This is why communication is so important. 

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Standing up for our rights.

oppression
Paulo Freire
alienates us from inquiries and decision-making

Cultivating a professional practice grounded in critical trauma theory and professional ethics

Stress - Trauma
Counseling Ethics
Counselor Supervision

Our collaborative team.

Structures of Power

Communicating in and through
an often uncertain world.

Communication Pedagogy
Qualitative Methods
Critical-Cultural Approaches
Organizational Systems

Learning from each other.

Folx Media

A Free Space

For those who want to join us
in the ongoing struggle. 

A Participatory Process

Meaningful change does not trickle
from the top on down. 

 

It happens when we act upon time, space, and what we can socially form and inform together from the bottom on up. 
 

Meaningful change happens in and through communication.
 

To be is to communicate.

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Contact
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Get In Touch

Start Your Journey to Wellbeing

*woman- & disability-owned business

Phone

352-756-1466

Email

Address

Gainesville, FL

© 2025 by SenseMakes, LLC

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