by Gina Nelson | Sep 3, 2024 | EMDR
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...
by Gina Nelson | Aug 22, 2024 | EMDR
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...
by Gina Nelson | Aug 7, 2024 | EMDR
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...
by Gina Nelson | May 28, 2024 | EMDR
Are You a Stuffer? Emotional stuffers are people who spend their entire life trying to push their emotions aside and truck through life in order to keep up with the demands of expectations both self-imposed and placed on them by others. They learned these skills...
by Gina Nelson | Mar 12, 2024 | EMDR
C-PTSD Complex PTSD (C-PTSD) is a condition that can develop in individuals who have experienced prolonged and repeated trauma, such as childhood abuse or neglect, domestic violence, or captivity. It is characterized by a range of symptoms, including emotional...
by Gina Nelson | Jan 30, 2024 | EMDR
Downtown Chicago I’m writing this blog as I sit in Chicago Midway airport after a week-long EMDR training with therapists who primarily work in downtown Chicago, inner-city work, with distressed urban areas of concentrated poverty and low income. We brought an...
