EMDR Resourcing

EMDR Resourcing

When people hear about Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), they often imagine the most visible part of the process: a therapist guiding eye movements or tapping while a client recalls painful memories. What is less visible, but just as essential, is...
Preparing for a Job Interview When You Have Clinical Anxiety

Preparing for a Job Interview When You Have Clinical Anxiety

Interviews for a lot of people bring on some level of stress and anxiety in professional life. For individuals who live with clinical anxiety – whether that’s generalized anxiety disorder, panic disorder, or social anxiety, the challenges of interviewing go far...
How I Help Clients Prepare for Interviews as a Career Counselor

How I Help Clients Prepare for Interviews as a Career Counselor

As a career counselor, one of the most valuable services I provide is guiding clients through interview preparation. Interviews often play a pivotal role in shaping the outcome of a job opportunity. While many people focus on resumes and applications, it’s the...
Health Anxiety from an Integrative Therapist’s Perspective

Health Anxiety from an Integrative Therapist’s Perspective

Health anxiety is a common struggle I often encounter in therapy with my clients. It’s more than worrying about health – it’s the persistent fear that something is wrong with the body, despite medical reassurance. It often shows up as relentless symptom...
Why Moral Injury is Essential in Trauma Treatment

Why Moral Injury is Essential in Trauma Treatment

When I sit with clients in the therapy room, one of the things I notice quite often is that trauma is rarely just about what happened – it’s also about what it means to that person. How trauma impacts every individual is different – and that has to be honored....
What is Affair Recovery?

What is Affair Recovery?

Affair recovery, in terms of my clinical practice, is when two individuals have created a monogamous partnership and have agreed on specific boundaries, and one partner feels there has been an affair that has stepped over these boundaries. People have different...
Online Couples Therapy – Does it work?

Online Couples Therapy – Does it work?

When important considerations are taken into account, online couples therapy can be a great experience for couples who want to improve their relationship. They can enhance communication skills, increase sexual intimacy, resolve a specific problem they have been stuck...
Where Does EMDR Help With Depression?

Where Does EMDR Help With Depression?

When I have a client in my office who is experiencing depression, there are certain ways a client is describing their depressive symptoms when I think EMDR would be most beneficial. Clients will describe frustration by being told by others “you have such a great life,...
What is Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (c-PTSD)?

What is Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (c-PTSD)?

Most people have heard of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) when learning about symptoms people experience from traumatic events such as being a first responder to a natural disaster, serving in a military operation overseas, or being the victim of a sexual...