Dissociation

Traditional models of attachment focus on the relationship between the child and their caregivers. As mentioned previously, there’s also the Nested Model of attachment proposed by Jessica Fern which suggests that attachment is shaped across many different levels of human experience. Today I want to…

Searching for EMDR Consultation? I’m a Certified EMDR Therapist & Consultant. I’m a facilitator with Precision EMDR Academy which is dedicated to preparing clinicians to do this important work with the complex attachment wounds we actually see in our practices. I will be facilitating another…

    From this cishet ally, to all the LGBTQIA+ folx out there: I see you, I believe you. I will support and defend. And to fellow non-community members…. It’s important to acknowledge that queer folks and their rights are currently under attack. The trans…

In honor of LGBTQIA+ history month, here is a quote from James Baldwin was a gay, Black American writer and civil rights activist: “I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hate so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they…

There are a lot of misunderstandings out there about EMDR therapy & what can & what cannot be changed or addressed with it. So let’s get into it. EMDR myth: Can’t be safely used with Dissociative Disorders EMDR truth: There’s a benefit in using EMDR…

In Divergent Mind by Jenara Nerenberg writes, “The DSM is more like a catalogue of current social ailments, than scientific, hardwired diseases. In Women and Madness, Phyllis Chesler writes of what she calls psychiatric imperialism, whereby normal responses to trauma are methodically pathologized in science…