Confidential online counseling using Internal Family Systems, Compassionate Inquiry, clinical hypnosis , and mindfulness.
Confidential online counseling using Internal Family Systems, Compassionate Inquiry, clinical hypnosis , and mindfulness.
I work in psychotherapy with adults to help heal their old traumas from childhood or their recent traumas from causes such as military service, workplace harassment, intimate partner violence, crime by strangers or motor vehicle accidents. Decades of psychological research proves that adult psychological problems stem from growing up in a chaotic household or from childhood abuse/neglect that thwarts healthy attachment. Anxiety, major depression, the obsessively critical inner voice, deep shame, self-harm, suicide attempts, and addictions to work, sex, drugs or alcohol are but some of the consequences of childhood trauma. The good news is that because these problems were created in pathological relationships they can be healed decades later in a healthy, corrective relationship between client and therapist. Many adults who suffer from these problems mistakenly fault themselves without realizing that childhood trauma severely impacted their brain wiring, psychosocial development, and core self-beliefs. An adult with significant childhood trauma is split in the sense of having a Self that wants to enjoy all that is good in life and an Anti-Self that is hostile to the Self, criticizes it harshly, finds it inadequate, and even desires to destroy it. Living with an unconscious Anti-Self that is in the driver's seat of your consciousness eventually becomes intolerable not just because of the pain it causes but because it makes the individual act out his trauma in ways that harm and/or alienate family, friends, and co-workers.
The purpose of trauma therapy is to liberate you from being a "prisoner of childhood" and stepping into authentic adulthood with confidence, optimism, resilience, and the power to reach your goals. The number one reason traumatized people steer clear of therapy is not denial of their symptoms but fear of re-living childhood events when they were overwhelmed by fear, terror, rage or sadness. They do not want to go back "there" out of fear they will be re-traumatized and wind up worse than before. The good news is that this fear is not true. Children are traumatized when they feel completely alone, unloved, and helpless during an episode of abuse or chronic neglect. In therapy you are no longer a child and you are no longer alone. As your therapist I will be with you every step of the way. I will explain and psychologically prepare you for the healing process. I will be connected with you throughout the healing process. I will keep checking in with you to see how you are doing and I will re-ground you if needed. I will be a caring, attuned, empathic presence to witness your pain and your healing. At the conclusion of each trauma healing session I will work with you to integrate what you experienced and what it means.
I am a pre-licensed professional clinical counselor who expects to be licensed at the end of this Summer. In the meantime I can work with you under the supervision of a licensed mental health professional. I am currently being supervised by LeAnn Berger, PsyD, LMFT
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