Trauma

Regression, as with most psychological concepts, covers a range of behaviors. This returning to an earlier developmental stage can be as minor as returning home for the holidays, realizing your parents are getting older and instead of facing that fact, returning to ways of being…

Did you know tat in order for a caterpillar to become a butterfly it must first digest itself? When it is in its chrysalis it digests itself, becoming a soup with what are called imaginal discs. These discs are groups of cells that survive this…

This is a beautiful sentiment if the people you’ve loved and the things you have learned are healthy. But if you grew up in an abusive, toxic, neglectful or chaotic home environment these changes are not for the better. When a child grows up in…

  Dissociation is a coping strategy and a symptom that is often associated with complex trauma. And EMDR is a therapy that can rapidly uncover this symptom given it was developed as a treatment for PTSD. That is why if you know that you struggle…

So often people feel the need to put up this front so that others will not know they feel like they’re dying on the floor. And sometimes there is even a front that they put up for themselves. If they don’t cry then they won’t…

This is one of the most common misconceptions I find with EMDR, and it’s a biggie. EMDR is a style of therapy just as CBT is, or psychoanalysis is a type of therapy. Therefore, we ARE actually doing EMDR from the first interaction. It informs…