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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…

kinda chic to be an EMDR Consultant who knows how common dissociation is actually is in complex trauma kinda chic to be an EMDR Consultant who can help consultees learn to assess for & work with dissociation kinda chic to be able to recognize and…

In watching a session from the recent EMDRIA Summit, the presenter, Dr. Paul Miller shared an excellent quote from Karl Menninger that really resonated with me and is at the core of how I approach trauma work. “An individual having unusual difficulties in coping with…

I am a big fan of fantasy books, partly because of the escapism, I mean, have you seen the world lately? And yet, these books also speak to important themes in our world and offer the chance to develop and practice our empathy as we…

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…

Owning who you are is power. If you can learn to own every part of you, the light and the dark, that is power. If you can learn to own who you are then it cannot be used against you (emotionally). The powers that be,…