Dissociation

This time of year, you hear a lot about gratitude and practicing an attitude of gratitude. I know this can be triggering for some folks, but having a gratitude practice can be very beneficial to one’s health and I want to share why that is.…

When doing work with trauma, we often talk about trauma time. Trauma time refers to how people (or parts/alters) who’ve gone through trauma can get stuck in thinking and reacting as though they are still in that period of their lives when the trauma was…

Time orientation skills involve reminding yourself that you are in the here-and-now, rather than in the there-and-then (i.e. trauma time). The category of comfort refers to reminding yourself of the ways in which you can offer yourself comfort that you couldn’t when you were a…

    Holiday Reminders: Do not pressure, harass, questions, or judge those who choose not to have contact with their family. This is typically an incredibly painful choice they’ve had to make. It is already going to be difficult enough to manage the holidays without…

Searching for EMDR Consultation? I’m an Certified EMDR Therapist & Consultant. I am part of Precision EMDR Academy which is a training program dedicated to training clinicians to do this important work with the complex, attachment trauma client that most of us see in our…

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…