What does it mean to be non-binary? Well, that depends on the person. In general, though, it means that an individual does not identify as falling into what American society has traditionally seen as the only two genders – male or female. But as we…

I am loving this trend of seeing t-shirts and coffee mugs saying in a world where you can choose to be anything, choose to be kind. Some of the kindest, warmest, and most loving people I have ever met are the folks I work with…

So many folks coming to see me for help getting past their past want it to be erased, or they want help to forgetting it, and that is something that therapy simply cannot do. I would argue that forgetting or erasing the past, even if…

The ACES study was conducted here in San Diego between 1995-97 and was spearheaded by Vincent Felitti, MD. This study was conducted with 17,000 participants and clearly demonstrated a link between adverse childhood experiences and later health, social and behavioral problems. What I want to…

Heteronormativity – is the belief that people fall into 2 separate & complementary genders, and that heterosexuality is the only normal & natural expression of sexuality Heteronormativity is another bias in how the assumptions we make about people and the world, and therefore clouds our…

Often a goal of therapy in general and EMDR Therapy in particular is to help people be able to have a coherent narrative of their life that they can talk about without getting overwhelmed or sucked back into those experiences. When traumatic things have occurred…