Madeleine Shaver LCSW, MAC

Loving someone who experiences addiction or other compulsive behaviors can be painful. Work in this area includes learning how to support your loved one without enabling the addiction. Education, setting boundaries, and shifting focus back to your own needs are areas of focus for recovery.

Therapy follows the model of Health At Every Size. Understanding your relationship with food is the key for healing. Treatment will help you acquire techniques to learn body signals for hunger and fullness, types of eating cycles, and how to troubleshoot triggers that lead to problematic eating patterns.

Addiction Counseling emphasizes understanding active symptoms and their impact on functioning, developing new coping skills, letting go of destructive patterns, embracing self-nurturing skills, and (re)building positive relationships. Addiction education includes helping clients understand what they are experiencing.

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a form of psychotherapy helpful in treating distressing events, complex trauma, PTSD, and other concerns. EMDR relieves present day symptoms by changing the way in which traumatic experiences or memories are stored in our system. EMDR has a “neutralizing” effect on stressful or highly reactive responses that stem from ancient history.

This form of therapy focuses on achieving insight into unconscious patterns which may be driving thoughts, feelings, and behavioral patterns. The relationship between therapist and client is used as an example to show how relationships are being experienced in the client's world outside of therapy. This form of therapy provides safety in practicing skills to resolve conflicts and in gaining deeper understanding of self and relationships with other.

This form of therapy focuses on achieving insight into unconscious patterns which may be driving thoughts, feelings, and behavioral patterns. The therapeutic relationship between therapist and client is used as an example to show how relationships are being experienced in the client's world outside of therapy. This form of therapy provides safety in practicing skills to resolve conflicts and in gaining deeper understanding of self and relationships with other.

This form of therapy focuses on achieving insight into unconscious patterns which may be driving thoughts, feelings, and behavioral patterns. The therapeutic relationship between therapist and client is used as an example to examine how relationships are being experienced in the client's world outside of therapy. This form of therapy provides safety in practicing skills to resolve conflicts and in gaining deeper understanding of self and relationships with other.