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Therapy options include Internal Family Systems, EMDR, Havening, Compassionate Inquiry, and Embodied Modalities
Therapy options include Internal Family Systems, EMDR, Havening, Compassionate Inquiry, and Embodied Modalities
My practice is primarily devoted to helping adults heal from childhood traumas that negatively affected their brain wiring, psychosocial development, self-image, and capacity to relate enjoyable to others. Children, like adults, try to organize and make sense of their experience based on the messages they receive. When you grew up with a parent who ignored your needs for nurture, love, and validation; a parent who abused you emotionally, physically or sexually; or a parent who was inconsistent - loving you one moment and unpredictably hurting you another; you receive highly negative messages. It is little wonder that the child who received these messages grows up to believe things like, "I am unlovable," "I was a mistake and don't deserve to exist," "I am unworthy and inadequate," or "the world is unsafe, I can't trust anyone, and I'm better off alone." All of us faces challenges, adversity, and stress in life. The resilient people who rise to the occasion and become in some ways better and stronger were not traumatized as children, except in very rare instances. For the most part when things go wrong for an adult survivor of childhood trauma, the person blames herself, attacks herself, and is completely unable to ask for compassion or provide compassion to herself. Instead of challenges being opportunities to learn and grow, they become stumbling blocks that cause a sense of unworthiness with feelings of hopelessness and despair that can lead to depression and various forms of self-harm, such as shame-based social isolation, career self-sabotage, cutting or burning, and even suicide attempts.
I believe that everyone deserves a chance to be their best, to actualize their full potential, and to wake up each day with feelings of hope, optimism, and positive expectation. Doesn't that sound better than waking up each day to sadness, anxiety, existential dread or feelings of pessimism and emptiness? Over the past 30 years there has been a revolution in the field of trauma therapy based on advances in neuroscience, increased understanding of how childhood trauma affects brain development and social behavior, and the creation of brand new therapies that reach and resolve old traumas stored in the brain and the body. Freud's talking cure has morphed into systems of therapy that help clients to activate profound sensory and emotional experiences that heal trauma and its life-long consequences. Knowledge about trauma healing is accelerating at a mind-boggling pace. The crucial thing for an adult client who wants to heal from trauma is to work with a therapist who has focused his education, training, and clinical experience to make this possible.
At this time I am a pre-licensed professional clinical counselor who expects to be licensed in the Spring of 2022. At that time I will be able to see clients at my own office without supervision.
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