Services
- Individual
About My Clients
I enjoy working with people who have been through a traumatic experience and despite their attempts at avoiding it and 'moving on', those memories are still impacting their lives. I often meet with survivors of sexual assault, people who have had random accidents/injuries, and those who have witnessed something terrible. I help to stop the nightmares, the flashbacks, and get you comfortable in your skin again.
My Background and Approach
It's not fair to have something happen in your life and have it keep ruling your world in so many ways. The event itself is typically bad enough so to have to continue suffering from it can feel intolerable. In my judgment-free-zone, I prepare you by filling your 'toolbox' with various coping skills that build your confidence in your ability to manage the emotions to get through triggers and daily life. I then utilize the productive methods of EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) and A.R.T. (Accelerated Resolution Therapy) that can lighten or even rid the effects of these memories. These processes involve an approach that looks fairly different from the typical 'talk therapy' that most people imagine when they think of therapy. They instead use the brain as a tool and don't even require the you to share aloud what you don't wish to and the process will still work, the brain knows what's going on and that's what important.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
I strongly believe that we are all healable, that no matter how bad of an experience, it does not have to carry the weight it has forever. I believe that trauma is not only in our minds but is stored in the body and the past can show up in physical symptoms all of the time (IBS, lumps in throat, gut punch feeling, shoulder tension, chronic pains, illnesses, migraines, etc.). I welcome incorporating this into our work together.