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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...
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 sensations. They ...
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 people in ...
