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Individual Psychotherapy
The psychotherapy process is one in which you will have a confidential, safe environment where you can explore, without judgment, the areas of your life where you feel stuck. Together, we will work toward your goals, and you will receive practical tools to begin feeling better. My approach is warm and empathetic. I believe that people are experts on themselves and my role is to provide a safe environment in which to facilitate personal exploration, growth and deep healing. I admire the bravery in individuals who are willing to face those difficult past experiences to live a healthier and happier life.
EMDR
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy is an extensively researched, effective psychotherapy method proven to help people recover from trauma and other distressing life experiences, including PTSD, anxiety and depression.
EMDR therapy is designed to resolve unprocessed traumatic memories in the brain. Our brains have a natural way to recover from traumatic memories and events. This process involves communication between the amygdala (the alarm signal for stressful events), the hippocampus (which assists with learning, including memories about safety and danger), and the prefrontal cortex (which analyzes and controls behavior and emotion). While many times traumatic experiences can be managed and resolved spontaneously, they may not be processed without help.
Stress responses are part of our natural fight, flight, or freeze instincts. When distress from a disturbing event remains, the upsetting images, thoughts, and emotions may create feelings of overwhelm, of being back in that moment, or of being “frozen in time.” EMDR therapy helps the brain process these memories, and allows normal healing to resume. The experience is still remembered, but the fight, flight, or freeze response from the original event is resolved.
Somatic Experiencing
Traumatic experiences, whether a major life event such as abuse, neglect, accidents or more subtle emotional injuries leave their mark on the nervous system. Trauma is stored in the body and is most effectively healed with the body in mind. Often people who have undergone an adverse experience may have symptoms such as anxiety, depression, PTSD, dissociation, and chronic pain.
Somatic Experiencing is a body-oriented approach to healing trauma and other stress disorders. The SE approach releases traumatic shock which is key to transforming the PTSD and the wounds of emotional and early developmental attachment trauma.
SE offers a framework to assess where a person is stuck in fight, flight, or freeze response and provides clinical tools to release energy bound in the body at the time of trauma.
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