Crystin Rice (she/her)

I am a certified Prepare/Enrich facilitator and have completed Gottman Level I and II training. I have facilitated family groups for traumatic grief and led workshops on topics such as parenting, blended families, setting boundaries, and emotional enrichment in the later years. For clients with a trauma history, talk therapy may be more effective when it's supplemented with trauma-informed techniques such as sandtray, art, music, and movement. Language is mostly processed through only the left side of the brain. That works well for cognitive therapies that rely on logic to change our perceptions. Research shows that traumatic events are held mostly in the right hemisphere and rarely make it into the logical left side. These other techniques offer a brain-based approach to treating trauma that can be more effective that talk therapy alone.