Kirsten Reynolds (She/her/hers)

If you have experienced trauma in your life and what you have tried to help hasn’t worked, I do my best to get regular training to have tools to help you that you haven’t tried before. I want you to heal from the inside out. To help with this, I do Brainspotting, a therapy that uses the connection our eyes have to our brains to help us access things that need to be reprocessed. I also use EMDR, ego-state work (parts work), inner child work, and other things to help people get unstuck.

I am fully trained in EMDR and working on certification right now! EMDR stands for Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Therapy. This technique uses bilateral stimulation to help your brain release old pain & make new neuropathways surrounding difficult experiences or beliefs. This is just a fancy way of saying that this is a brain-body based therapy that tends to go deeper than talk therapy - so if you have felt stuck after trauma, EMDR may be a helpful solution for you!

Motivational Interviewing (MI) helps people get from point A to point B & I believe that its focus on the strengths of the client, not the knowledge of the clinician, is the most helpful thing about it. Sometimes you know what you need to do, you just need a little help figuring out the last pieces of the puzzle to get there. Sometimes you have no idea what you need to do but you don’t feel comfortable with someone telling you what to do. MI is excellent for this and helps clients navigate life.

We experience a lot of loss throughout life, and its impact can be devastating. There are many forms of grief and loss - and you may be dealing with it on a daily basis more than you realize. Anticipatory grief, disenfranchised grief, and traumatic grief are just a few examples of how it can show up and feel overwhelming in our lives. Leading grief research tells us that grief must be witnessed by someone safe in order to heal. Getting support can be an important step in managing the pain.

Many people feel wrecked when they go through trauma. And many people feel like they have been going through trauma their whole lives, like it’s just part of who they are now. And they feel wrecked or completely disconnected. Trauma can be a lot of things, but one thing we don’t want it to be is something that leaves you stuck feeling small, hopeless, & overwhelmed. Trauma is stored not only in our brain, but also in our body and in how we perceive the word. You may benefit from getting support!

Our families of origin are an important part of our lives because the culture we grow up in, our attachment to our main caregivers, & whether or not our needs were met vastly shape our lives & our internal worlds. Exploring the impact of your family of origin may help you understand why you have certain relational issues, why you seem to struggle with anxiety more than your friends, or why you feel intense shame about things that other people seem to be fine with. I recommend looking into this!

Many people feel wrecked when they go through trauma. And many people feel like they have been going through trauma their whole lives, like it’s just part of who they are now. And they feel wrecked or completely disconnected. Trauma can be a lot of things, but one thing we don’t want it to be is something that leaves you stuck feeling small, hopeless, & overwhelmed. Trauma is stored not only in our brain, but also in our body and in how we perceive the word. You may benefit from getting support!

Our families of origin are an important part of our lives because the culture we grow up in, our attachment to our main caregivers, & whether or not our needs were met vastly shape our lives & our internal worlds. Exploring the impact of your family of origin may help you understand why you have certain relational issues, why you seem to struggle with anxiety more than your friends, or why you feel intense shame about things that other people seem to be fine with. I recommend looking into this!

Many people feel wrecked when they go through trauma. And many people feel like they have been going through trauma their whole lives, like it’s just part of who they are now. And they feel wrecked or completely disconnected. Trauma can be a lot of things, but one thing we don’t want it to be is something that leaves you stuck feeling small, hopeless, & overwhelmed. Trauma is stored not only in our brain, but also in our body and in how we perceive the word. You may benefit from getting support!