In 2022, telehealth for mental and emotional health care became the most common type of telehealth being practiced in the United States. While telehealth is now common, practical, and widely accepted, it may be a new experience for you. If technology feels intimidating or if you don’t have much experience using web conferencing, preparation can...
Unfortunately, the big T traumas, small t traumas, and the accumulation of everyday woes can leave us feeling stuck, anxious, fearful, overly sad, grieving, or doomed to relive the past on repeat. Therapy helps many people step off the hamster wheel of past stuckness and emotional reactivity. Therapy helps to process and understand past...
EMDR Trauma Therapy An effective and evidence-based treatment for trauma experiences is EMDR therapy. Life gives us ups and downs, and typically we are able to cope with our experiences. At times, a negative experience will occur that is outside our ability to cope. Or a series of negative events may occur that pile up...
How Your Brain Organizes Your Memories, Emotions, and Feelings One way to understand how EMDR therapy works is to think of life experiences as a file system. When experiences, emotions, and physical sensations are manageable and make sense, the brain automatically sorts through these, disregards what is unnecessary, and places the remaining files in long...
[blank h=”30″] [/blank] EMDR Therapy for Anger & Frustration No matter how global, technologically advanced, or organizationally cultured our workplaces become, we are still humans interacting with others. We aren’t going to agree or see eye-to-eye at all times. We might encounter clients, colleagues, or supervisors who are rude, manipulative, or narcissistic. At times, you...
[blank h=”30″] [/blank] Getting Past Your Past Life gives us a variety of experiences, some joyful that we would like to experience on repeat and others that are downright awful and painful. The good news is that people do move forward from painful experiences and go on to lead lives filled with joy. You probably...
[text_divider type=”single”] What To Expect From Therapy [/text_divider] The First Time You Go In deciding to try psychotherapy, you have already accomplished a difficult and challenging step: recognizing that a mental health, emotional, or relationship concern could use some support. You may feel conflicted about going to therapy. Yet approximately half of the population will...
Many adults and children may find it difficult to use public restrooms, or the facilities at a friend or neighbor’s home. Thoughts, fears, or worries of being judged, humiliated, or embarrassed result in the tightening of the sphincter and bladder muscles in a sympathetic nervous system response. These involuntary responses make it quite literally impossible...
Anger or Depression After A Tragedy We have been witness to mass shootings and natural disasters this year. California has been shaken, burned, and shot. Whether you were present or watched on news feeds, these tragic events can affect our overall well-being in negative ways. It is normal to feel sad, confused, worried, anger or...
Does EMDR Work? EMDR stands for eye movement desensitization and reprocessing, and is a non-traditional psychotherapy approach. This model was created by Francine Shapiro in the 1980s, so it is relatively new (as compared to Sigmund Freud’s creation of psychoanalysis in late 1800s/early 1900s). Over the past 40 years, EMDR has been demonstrated to be...
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