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Healing doesn’t mean the damage never existed. It means the damage no longer controls our lives. I think there is often an unconscious and unspoken hope when people come into therapy that they can get back to the way it was BEFORE. But that is…

My name is Dr. Colette Lord, and my clients call me Colette. I am a licensed psychologist with 15+ years of experience. I have wanted to be a psychologist for as long as I can remember. For me, it is more of a calling than…

Perfectionism is generally unhealthy for us. Perfectionism often hinders people with anxiety from ever starting a project for fear it will not be perfect, or they get lost in the planning stage, again, because it needs to be perfect. And perfectionism tends to be driven…

This is a beautiful description of chronic anxiety. It is experienced because the worry and the thinking about all of the potential, negative ‘what ifs?’ are happening constantly and are not within the person’s control. If it were as easy as telling someone to stop…

Please join me in welcoming Sadie to my therapy practice!!! Sadie is a 10 week old Cavalier King Charles Spaniel, and a little angel. We are waiting for her to get all her puppy shots before bringing her into the office, and neither of us…

We all have darkness. Freud talked about the death drive and out of control id. Jung talked about the shadow self. And in EMDR Therapy we think of dysfunctionally stored information or lack of adaptive information. Regardless of what theory we ascribe to, we all…