EMDR Intensives For Complex Trauma: When They Help & When They Don’t
Can EMDR intensives help with complex or early childhood or complex trauma? Learn when intensives are effective, when they’re not, and how to know if you’re a good fit.
How to Stay in Your Window of Tolerance During EMDR Intensives
Learn how to stay regulated during EMDR intensives. Practical tips to stay within your window of tolerance and prevent overwhelm in longer trauma sessions.
3 Simple Ways to Calm Anxiety & Manage Your Thoughts
Anxiety doesn’t just come from circumstances - it’s shaped by how our mind engages with them. Learning to shift that process is one of the most effective ways to begin changing how you feel.
What to Do When You Feel Out of Control
Feeling stuck in a situation you can’t control? Learn practical steps to regain clarity, regulate your nervous system, and move forward.
Why Did I Have a Bad Experience With EMDR?
EMDR therapy can be life-changing, but sometimes people report difficult experiences. Learn the most common reasons EMDR can go wrong and how to avoid them.
What Your Anger is Trying to Tell You
Anger is often a protective emotion that signals crossed boundaries or unmet needs. Learn how to understand anger and respond constructively.
EMDR Intensives for Medical Trauma: Healing After Surgery, Diagnosis, or Hospitalization
EMDR Intensives help resolve anxiety and trauma after surgery, diagnosis, or hospital stays. Intensives offer structured, focused treatment for accelerated progress and lasting relief.
EMDR Intensive Therapy for Car Accident Trauma
Structured EMDR Intensive therapy for motor vehicle accident trauma. Focused, time-limited treatment with clear documentation for PI cases.
EMDR Intensives for Phobias: Resolving Fear at the Root
EMDR Intensive therapy helps resolve phobias at their root. A structured, time-limited approach for fear of flying, driving, medical procedures, and more.
EMDR Intensives for High-Functioning Anxiety: When Weekly Therapy Isn’t Enough
Learn how EMDR Intensives provide focused, short-term treatment for high-functioning anxiety linked to trauma, stress, and performance pressure.
What are EMDR Intensives? Who They’re For and When They Work Best
EMDR Intensive therapy offers focused trauma treatment in days or weeks instead of months or years. Learn who it’s for, how it works, and when it’s the right fit.
Can AI Replace Therapy? A Therapist’s Perspective on AI & Mental Health
AI is changing how people make sense of their mental health, but it can’t replace therapy. From a therapist’s perspective, this post explores when AI can be helpful, when it can be harmful, and why human connection remains essential for real healing.
How Trauma is Held in the Body - and How EMDR Can Help
This experience reflects a broader understanding in trauma research - that emotional experiences can be held in the body and nervous system, not just remembered in the mind. Neuroscience and trauma research show that stress and traumatic experiences actually become encoded in the nervous system, shaping how the body…
How Grounding Can Calm Anxiety & Increase Clarity
Our minds can get caught in time travel - going too far into the future with worries about things that haven’t happened, or back to the past ruminating on things that are already over. This time traveling, as I call it, will always spike anxiety…
Fixing Codependency & Toilets
This all made me a think a lot about codependency - an unhealthy relational pattern in which one person is controlled by the needs or problems (usually addiction or mental health issues) of another. Codependent patterns and relationships are often what drives someone - typically the codependent person managing all of the responsibility in the relationship - to seek therapy.
Anxiety & Performance
Maybe you have this internal conflict like so many with anxiety do - a part of you wants to be rid of it for good, but a part of you feels like you need it to be at your best. This can feel so frustrating, the internal battle between needing a break from anxiety, but at the same time fearing what could happen in the absence of anxiety.
How to Overcome Negative Thoughts and Lower Anxiety
Sometimes our thoughts can be so all or nothing They can go full blast. They can change the entire temperature of our emotional state. All or nothing thinking, catastrophizing, and worst-case-scenario thought spirals can all get so strong that they overwhelm us, raising anxiety past the point that it feels manageable.
Anxiety is a Superpower
I recently saw a clip of a CIA agent talking about anxiety from the perspective of how it's a strength and an asset that can be leveraged. He went on to say... "Most people who suffer from anxiety feel like they're inadequate in some way. But in reality, they are hyper-adequate. They are more than adequate. The CIA wants people who carry a certain level of anxiety because when you carry anxiety you naturally" ...
What is the End Result of EMDR?
Ordinarily the specific events that we target with EMDR process to a point of resolution where they feel neutral, and then they stay that way - stored as a memory that wasn't good but that no longer carries a strong emotional charge in the present. Memories or triggers that we've processed to this point of neutrality do not tend to resurface with distress again, the results are usually lasting.
Five Ways To Quiet Imposter Syndrome
Unexpectedly about a month ago, Imposter Syndrome made an appearance in my mind about my work. I've been in practice as a therapist long enough and heard enough stories and participated in enough healing journeys that I'm usually more focused on finding ways to solve problems in therapy than I am on my own insecurities, and this tends to keep Imposter Syndrome at bay. However, all at once…