Kaitlyn Ferry

Bipolar experiences of depression and manic/hypomanic symptoms can feel overwhelming and extreme. In therapy, we can address symptom management and work toward integration and processing of the events, emotions, or traumas underlying the symptoms.

Our attachment styles are present in every relationship, including the therapeutic relationship. In therapy, we have the opportunity to address challenges, wounds, and healing in interpersonal and inner relational patterns.

Our natural responses, reactions, or instinctual drives can be deeply affected by traumatic experiences. Trauma can keep our mind and body on high alert or shut us down to avoid constant anxiety. Brainspotting is one tool we can use in therapy to address the physical and neurological responses to trauma that often bypass our brain's ability to think.

Psychodynamic therapy takes into account complex factors that make each person’s experience unique including family history, personality style, coping mechanisms, relational patterns, and personal goals.

Attachment theory recognizes that the relational patterns we learned from our first caregivers are carried with us into each relationship throughout our life, and even affects our relationship with ourselves.

Brainspotting addresses the physiological and instinctual responses to trauma that bypass our brain's cognitive abilities. We can access and release the trauma stored deep in the brain and body through eye positioning and somatic awareness.