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How Does EMDR Therapy Work in the Brain
EMDR Therapy offers a unique approach. This innovative psychotherapy combines elements from various treatments to relieve psychological trauma. It’s proven effective for people of all ages worldwide, tackling PTSD, anxiety, and panic disorders.
How Unmet Childhood Needs Affect Adult Relationships
Whether it’s neglect or other unresolved issues, these early experiences often manifest in difficulties forming healthy bonds later in life. While everyone has valid needs, what happens when they’re not addressed during our crucial developmental years? Here is an explanation of how the complex interplay between past and present might affect our adult lives.
How IFS Therapy Can Help You Pause and Connect With Yourself
In IFS Therapy, each part has a voice, emotion and role to play and when life gets loud, the parts get overwhelmed and run to safety - making room for the firefighters to emerge out of habit. But part of emotional health means slowing down, and making time for these parts to be seen, acknowledged, and validated.
What are Signs of Attachment Trauma in Adults?
Individuals grappling with Attachment Trauma often encounter challenges in forming and sustaining interpersonal connections. This trauma, rooted in early development, often reveals its actual impact in adulthood.
How Attachment Theory and Safe Base Play a Vital Role in Couples Therapy
Safe base and secure attachment can still be created long after childhood, but it takes deep intentionality and safe relationships with healthy others. Many people report that they are able to heal attachment wounds through healthy romantic relationships with the help of couples therapy.
How Trauma Can Be Processed Through IFS Therapy (Internal Family Systems)
Internal Family Systems therapists help you process trauma by facilitating connection with your parts. And it’s all guided by you, the client, not an external person or circumstance.
What is EMDR Therapy Used For?
EMDR therapy is primarily used to treat post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). However, it has shown effectiveness for various other conditions, including anxiety disorders, depression, and phobias. EMDR therapy can also address issues like low self-esteem, chronic pain, and addiction. Its versatility makes it a valuable tool in mental health treatment.
The Four Biggest Predictors of Divorce
These four communication habits can predict trouble if they are left unchecked to run rampant in your relationship. Not only will we identify these four warning signs, but we will also provide an antidote. Let’s learn a little bit more about each one.
How Can IFS Therapy Help?
For individuals grappling with trauma, IFS therapy offers a powerful avenue for healing. This approach can be particularly beneficial in helping you regulate emotions and reconnect with your body.
What is the Trauma Cycle?
There’s a lot of talk about trauma in today’s society. But what really is trauma and how does it happen?
How to Heal Family Trauma
Family trauma encompasses distressing events that disrupt familial harmony, causing significant emotional pain. Recognizing these experiences is crucial for healing, as they can instill fear, anxiety, and mistrust that persist for years, affecting one’s ability to form healthy connections.
How to Help a Teen With Anxiety
In today’s pressure-filled world, teens face unique stressors while navigating their identities. Parents can play a crucial role by recognizing signs of anxiety and understanding their teen’s experiences.
Understanding EMDR Therapy and Its Neurological Workings
Thankfully, there are alternatives to traditional talk therapy for trauma treatment. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR Therapy) therapy can help you process trauma with guided, bilateral stimulation. Let’s explore the neurological science behind EMDR Therapy.
Internal Family Systems Therapy: What to Know About Parts
Many people who grapple with clinical depression, anxiety, trauma, phobias, and other mental health conditions find relief when they identify the root causes of their symptoms through Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy. Let’s explore what “parts” means in the context of IFS, and how conflict between your parts can affect your mental health.
A Guide to Healing from Trauma
Trauma can make it seem like things will never get better. But healing is well within your reach. However, this process takes time and patience. You’ll want to find trusted people you can turn to for help. Here’s how to start down the path of healing from trauma.
5 Tips for Opening Up to Your Partner About Your Relationship
Shutting down emotionally puts up walls between you and your partner. If both of you are unable to fully express yourselves, your relationship will always rest on unstable ground. Here are some tips to help you get comfortable opening up to your partner.
EMDR Intensives - Reprocessing Trauma in a Shorter Time Frame
If you’re dealing with trauma, anxiety, or any other heavy emotional baggage, you probably want relief yesterday. You’ve already been carrying it for long enough, and the idea of spending months or even years in therapy can feel daunting. Enter EMDR Intensives — the fast lane of trauma healing.
It Pains Me to Say: Chronic Pain & Trauma
Chronic pain is debilitating. It comes out of nowhere and shatters your existence. I would know, because I live with a chronic illness. In 2007, my world fell apart when I was diagnosed with Crohn’s disease. The diagnosis ripped apart everything I had ever known.
“It’s Fine” Isn’t Really, Is It?
How many times have you asked your partner what’s wrong and they respond with, “nothing, it’s fine”? But is it fine? And why is that a catch-all for problems going unresolved? Do you long for more than just surface level responses and catty comments from your spouse? Do you want to dig in deeper and learn how to have a healthier relationship? Then stay tuned!
Trauma Therapy: Why You Can’t Just “Shake it Off”
So much of trauma is what happens after the event is over. Trauma rewires your brain, and it can make it difficult to understand or explain what you experienced.