The Body Keeps Score

The Body Keeps Score

Trauma and The Body Bessel van der Kolk wrote a book in 2014 called The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind and the Body in the Healing of Trauma. The book quickly became a famous must-read for therapists working with trauma.  It helped to explain that trauma is not...
When Preverbal Experiences Drive Your Current Behaviors

When Preverbal Experiences Drive Your Current Behaviors

But I Just Want To Work on My Anger? Often someone will come to therapy and they state something like “I want to control my anger that shows up in my interactions with my boss, co-worker, or even partner.  I go from 0-100 in seconds and don’t know how to control...
The Power of Intensives

The Power of Intensives

It’s Intimate and Powerful I recently had the opportunity to provide an EMDR intensive over 3 days.  There is something very intimate and magical about the intensive model for both myself as the therapist and for the client. In my last intensive, we spent 4 hours on...
Uncertainty…The Anxious Person’s Nemesis

Uncertainty…The Anxious Person’s Nemesis

The World of Uncertainty Well here we are in a very interesting place in history.  Our current president has withdrawn from the 2024 election and endorsed V.P. Kamala Harris as the candidate for the Democratic ticket. The secret service director Kimberly Cheatle just...
Rediscovering a Playful Spirit

Rediscovering a Playful Spirit

Remembering Childhood I have some very vivid memories of playful and fun times as a child.  We would stay out all day playing with the neighborhood kids riding bikes, playing ball, hide and seek and creating forts and clubs.  Back then, I didn’t have a care in the...