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When I began my journey after EMDR basic training, I was matched with an EMDR consultant, which is typically the process of completing 10 hours after basic training. Being new, I wasn’t so sure of myself, and I wanted to be able to share this new knowledge with so many. I have felt my consultees h...
In school, they teach us how to be therapists, not business owners. When I started my practice, I thought I would just be seeing patients and have my own business on the side. I never dreamed it would expand. I decided I needed to gain some business skills, so I began the challenge of taking a lo...
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 opportunity to supervise...
Insight Timer Meditation
Okay, peeps! I did it! I took a leap of faith and posted a Manifestation Meditation on the Insight Timer app! Insight Timer is a website/app with over 80,000 meditations. It is seriously the best.
My intention is to create a space for people to manifest and draw to themsel...
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 negative cognitions...
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 communitie...
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 inte...
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 research-base...
