Dissociation

EMDR therapy is a powerful form of therapy that increases neural connections as part of the healing process. When there is a trauma, the experience tends to stay separate from normal learning, beliefs, information and experiences that would help it be digested and stored as…

The central conflict of dissociation is the need to know and not know at the same time. When something happens that overwhelms us and is too much for our brains and bodies to process, then we are faced with the desire to not know what…

This quote comes from the book Perspectives of Dissociative Identity Disorder. And it encapsulates the feelings of many surivors of trauma, of chaotic and dysfunctional childhoods. There can be a very strong need for survivors of such wounding to believe that they are at fault,…

In The Body is Bad: When Disability and Complex Dissociative Disorders Meet, Marin Hann, LPC, states, “Our emotions are there to give us a very important wordless message and the problem is that we do not always interpret that message accurately. The longer we have…

It can be hard to believe, but all parts of you were created to help and serve a purpose. Even if you have parts that seem scary, that say mean things to you about yourself, that have encouraged self-harm, or who sound and act like…

Some of the core values that drive my work with all of my clients, but the dissociative ones in particular are: consent, compassion, curiosity, communication & cooperation. Consent is vital across all parts/alters/ego-states. Any of the work I do needs to be done with consideration…