Our Team
This work is held by people who practice what they offer.
We are not here to fix, diagnose, or direct your inner life.
We are here to notice, listen, and stay.
The Staying Practice is shaped by lived experience, clinical training, and years of learning about how experiences can shape the ways we respond to discomfort, uncertainty, and emotion.
Our approach begins with curiosity about patterns rather than judgment of them. We believe that noticing what has been learned can create opportunities for different experiences and, over time, new learning.
This is not expertise over your experience. It is companionship within it.
Andrew W. Seefeld, MD
I am an emergency physician and addiction medicine specialist whose work has brought me close to crisis, recovery, and the many ways people seek relief from difficult internal experiences.
My interest in this work is both professional and personal. Over time, I came to understand that many of the ways we respond to discomfort are not random. Experiences shape what we learn to expect, and responses that bring relief can become easier to repeat.
The Staying Practice grew from that understanding. It is an invitation to notice these familiar patterns without immediately trying to change them. With awareness, different responses become possible. Different experiences can create new learning, and new learning can increase flexibility over time.
I do not position myself as an expert over another person's inner life. I bring clinical experience, lived experience, and curiosity to a process of understanding what has been learned and what else may become possible.
I am the author of The Fire I Fed: From Ashes to Awareness, a memoir that explores many of these themes through my own experience.
Founder
I am a registered nurse with a deep interest in naturopathy and natural approaches to health and well-being.
I am especially drawn to plants, herbs, nutrition, and other traditional approaches to supporting the body. My interests include natural approaches to comfort, pain, stress, and everyday well-being, while recognizing the importance of thoughtful, evidence-informed care.
I believe there is value in bringing curiosity about the natural world alongside modern medicine. My approach emphasizes prevention, nourishment, and helping people explore ways of supporting their health that are safe, thoughtful, and meaningful to them.