Individualized treatment plans and therapy. There’s no one-size-fits-all model for treatment; I utilize a variety of evidence-based modalities tailored to every client’s unique and individual needs.

A brain-based approach that helps individuals process traumatic experiences. EMDR stands for Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing. It is a therapy model that has been proven to be highly effective for trauma, PTSD, anxiety, and depression.

EMDR therapy is founded on the basis that our emotional well-being is interwoven with our physical (somatic) state. Therefore, EMDR employs a body-based technique called bilateral stimulation. Bilateral stimulation is much like Rapid Eye Movement (REM) that we experience in our sleep and helps us process information. A client is guided through eye movements, tones, or taps to move a memory incorrectly stored to a more functional part of the brain.

EMDR therapy corrects this mis-storage so that the painful memories associated with the trauma lose their charge.

TRM (Trauma Resiliency Model) is a body-centered approach that focuses on the biological basis of trauma and the autonomic nervous system. TRM explores the concept of resiliency and how to restore balance to the body and the mind after traumatic experiences. TRM has been designed as both a trauma reprocessing treatment model as well as a self-care model. The nervous system is re-set or rebalanced through a skills-based approach that can be learned and practiced independently.

Trauma-Focused Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) is an evidence-based modality that can help individuals learn effective skills to cope with trauma-related emotional problems and effectively integrate their trauma experiences.

TF-CBT is designed to reduce symptoms of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), trauma-related depression, anxiety, and common trauma-related cognitive and emotional problems such as fear, shame, embarrassment, guilt, and self-blame.

Cognitive behavioral techniques are used to help modify distorted or unhelpful thinking and negative reactions and behaviors. Learning to challenge invasive thoughts of guilt and fear can help reorganize thinking in a more healthy way.

Mindfulness is a natural human mental state of moment-to-moment awareness of present experience. One can become more aware of self and environment through sensory focus, structured thinking, and breathing exercises by nonjudgmentally observing thoughts, feelings, and physical sensations.

Mindfulness training has been shown to be effective in relieving the suffering of numerous medical and psychological conditions while enhancing well-being.

The trauma narrative is used to help survivors of trauma make sense of their experiences. When completing a trauma narrative, the story of a traumatic experience will be told through verbal, written, or artistic means. Sharing and expanding upon a trauma narrative allows the individual to organize their memories, making them more manageable and diminishing the painful emotions they carry. An individual can untangle confusing trauma narratives and learn how to make sense of their experiences in a safe and supportive environment, which allows the integration of trauma into a new path forward, weaving a new, grounded, and healthy future.