Jeremiah Hein (he/him)

I use CPT (Cognitive Processing Therapy) to process unresolved trauma. I believe that even if we are surviving in this world having had some resilience to our trauma, if we do not work on our trauma, it will work on us in ways we have no idea how. Until we process the trauma, we can resolve some of the anxiety/fear and depression/anger associated with it and be better for ourselves and better for the ones we care about in forming intimate relationships with others and keeping them.

So much of relationship issues stem from communication problems as well as codependency. A lot of this also stems from our early attachment with our caregivers and this bleeds into how we may be with our current friends, family, and partners. I can help you to move from being passive, passive-aggressive, or aggressive to being assertive. I can help decrease your codependency, increase your self-esteem, decrease your people pleasing, and not feel guilty when saying no to others.

Being part of the LGBTQ+ community, I know the struggles we face with accepting it, with having difficulty forming intimate relationships, having shame and guilt, maybe lower self-esteem, higher codependency, higher substance use and abuse, and in interacting with friends and family who might not be as accepting as we'd like them to be. The great thing about having an LGBTQ+ therapist is that you dont have to be shy or scared to talk about issues like sex, etc. I understand. I see you.

Sometimes talking about something painful might cause one to feel more pain, so sometimes processing is not the best avenue and instead, learning skills and tools to manage negative emotional states might be better for you. I use DBT to teach people mindfulness skills, distress tolerance skills, emotion regulation skills, and interpersonal effectiveness skills to better manage your own emotions as well as make you more interpersonally effective when dealing with coworkers, bosses, partners.

So much of how we think affects how we feel and how we act. My goal in using CBT, is to help you identify what cognitive distortions or negative thinking patterns you use, and teach you adaptive thinking strategies to dismantle these cognitive distortions so you can be less angry, less depressed, less guilty, less anxious, etc. Here I help empower you to becoming your own therapist in a way to be able to use mindfulness and catch yourself and check yourself.

Cognitive Processing Therapy is how I was trained to process trauma. It's an involved process that has 2 written assignments but it is one of the best trauma processing therapies out there. I think it's not merely enough to just think about your trauma, but I think it's best to be able to write and talk about it; only in this way can shame and guilt be reduced and I can help you to be not as negatively affected by what has happened to you.