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Recently, I’ve been learning more about religious trauma and the spectrum that ranges from basic negative experiences to involvements in spiritual practices, rituals, or beliefs resulting in diagnosable PTSD responses. Religious trauma refers to various kinds of experiences with religious...
As a Certified Thanatologist studying death, dying, and bereavement, I have been blessed to assist patients heal from a departed loved one. Coping with this loss can be quite complex.
One training on my personal horizon is an upcoming training by Roger Solomon. I have attached his article that...
I began my journey of working with couples last year. I felt compelled to offer a place for couples to learn skills and began my Level 1 and 2 training with the Gottman Institute. I was able to connect with other providers in the community who were impacting couples with this fabulous...
Oftentimes, when we're working with traumatic memories or content, we have difficulties processing internal and external cues to the various events. Sometimes, people feel like they are the walking wounded and aren’t able to resolve any feelings in their emotions, thoughts, or body...
I remember when I first experienced EMDR, I loved learning. I did have to be aware that people are people, and I had one trainer say to me cautiously that I shouldn’t let people know of my aspirations to become an EMDR trainer one day. I took this as a green light and continued to find my...
In EMDR unprocessed memories are selected by the therapist and identified as a “target”, or type of memory to be processed. When a person is grieving, the disturbance related to this is called a grief target. This allows a therapist to be able to identify associated positive and...
When I first began seeing couples as a therapist to begin reviewing models of therapy, you had to have prior working experience to be able to work with couples. I didn’t have any significant knowledge with that type of practice.
As I continued my development as a therapist, I came...
My journey to becoming an EMDR therapist and business owner has been an exciting adventure. As a clinical therapist, trauma was present in several areas of my clinical practice. I understood how trauma could affect the brain and cause secondary challenges. I was given the...
