November 20 is Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR). TDOR was founded by transgender advocate Gwendolyn Ann Smith as a vigil to honor Rita Hester, a transgender woman who was killed in 1998. The vigil commemorated all the transgender people lost to violence that year and…

I spent time this weekend with the other awesome women of Precision EMDR Academy as we gear up for our EMDR Basic Training this fall. This is an amazing group of humans and fellow therapists who are committed to training others in EMDR therapy for…

Suicide is a solution sought to what is experienced as unendurable pain and is absolutely a mental health issue, and an epidemic in the US. AND there are a lot of things that are not about mental health that need to be part of our…

When I am not sitting in this chair talking to clients, Sadie feels it is her responsibility to keep the seat warm for me.  And sometimes this is what clients wee when they walk into the office. I am guessing that this is why they…

There are a variety of reasons you may have difficulty identifying or expressing emotions, we call this alexithymia. One reason might be growing up in a home where emotions were not allowed or encouraged. In that type of environment, the child does not have an…

I find that when someone fears change or the discomfort that may come from it, then tend to over-focus on this pain and fail to attend to the pain of their current state. This is understandable, whatever pain or discomfort you are currently in is…