Dissociation

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…

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…

In honor of September being CPTSD Awareness month, let’s talk about what CPTSD is. CPTSD stands for Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, and it develops as the result of repeated and on-going trauma. The fact that the trauma is chronic, it therefore results in more…

You’re EMDR trained. You realize DID is more common than you were taught. You want to learn how to recognize and screen for DID. If you are looking for training and information in this area, I’ve created a course just for you… Introduction to Working…

The traditional thinking and models of attachment focus on the relationship between the child and their caregivers. As I’ve mentioned previously, there is also the Nested Model of attachment and trauma proposed by Jessica Fern in her book polysecure: Attachment, Trauma and Consensual Nonmonogamy. The…