Dissociation

It can be spooky the things you hear as an EMDR therapist and as a consultant. EMDR is a powerful tool, which means those of us who wield that tool need to do so with care and precision. If you are wanting to learn to…

   I think this is a powerful reminder as we see this playing out in the world right now. You see it in the urge to deny the on-going violence our government is committing against the trans community and immigrants (to name a few). You…

Relational Approach for Dissociative Parts Parts are not the problem, they are the solution to a problem. The groundwork for the development of these parts is typically laid before explicit memory. Parts have roles or functions that they developed to adapt to specific needs of…

Some quotes I’ve recently read that spoke to me and I think will speak to you… That’s the power of words: twenty-six little letters can paint a whole universe. -Jay Kristoff in Godsgrave Words carry so much power, they can inspire, they can harm, they…

“You’ve always been strong…Perhaps too strong.” But that wasn’t true. She wasn’t strong so much as capable of numbing herself to the worst and watching every blow land with wry fatalism. She’d buried parts of herself that hurt and raged, turning wary and self-contained. It…

Here are some quotes from Dr. Jennifer Mullan’s Decolonizing Therapy that move me speak to my own hopes for this journey I’ve embarked on: Many of us began this career path with a deep calling to help others, but what we really needed was to…