This is a question people ask when anxiety has been present for a long time. When anxiety begins to affect relationships, work, sleep, health, and daily functioning, it can start to feel less like a temporary response and more like a permanent condition. From an...
What Are EMDR Intensives? If you have been researching EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) therapy, you may have come across the phrase EMDR intensive and wondered what it actually means. Most people are more familiar with traditional weekly therapy,...
When people hear the term generalized anxiety disorder, they often imagine someone who is obviously panicked, visibly distressed, or constantly talking about worry. Sometimes that is part of the picture. But often, generalized anxiety disorder looks much quieter and...
Generalized anxiety disorder can be difficult to recognize because it does not always look dramatic from the outside. Many individuals living with it are high-functioning, responsible, thoughtful, and capable. They may be the ones who manage the details, anticipate...
Chronic fear is one of those experiences that can feel deeply real on the inside and hard to convey on the outside. It is not always dramatic. It does not always look like panic. Sometimes it looks like overthinking, scanning, bracing, avoiding, controlling,...
There are people who live with anxiety that comes and goes in clear waves, attached to a specific stressor, decision, major life transition, or event. And then there are people who live with anxiety that feels more woven into daily life. It may not always arrive as...
What Dissociation Can Feel Like Dissociation is one of those experiences that can be hard to explain if you have not lived it. Many clients describe it as feeling disconnected from themselves, their bodies, their emotions, or the world around them. Some say it feels...
EMDR therapy has been around for more than 30 years, and in that time it has helped many people heal from trauma, anxiety, panic, distressing memories, and other experiences that continue to feel unresolved in the nervous system. EMDR stands for Eye Movement...
Medical anxiety is something I see with a lot of compassion. It can look like dread before a doctor’s appointment. A racing heart in the waiting room. Trouble sleeping the night before bloodwork or a scan. Going over symptoms again and again in your mind. Avoiding...
For many people, the word trauma brings up experiences like violence, abuse, accidents, or disasters. But trauma can also happen in medical settings. It can happen in hospitals, doctors’ offices, emergency rooms, dental chairs, fertility clinics, during surgeries,...
