Talk Therapy & Expressive Exploration

A multi media approach to traditional talk therapy, led by You and how your story can best be told. Not every story starts with a word- sometimes its a picture, a sensation, or a movement. This is the base for all other therapies and helps to build awareness, acceptance, as well as your unique style for connection.

Every individual who sees me will choose the type of communication they connect best in.

Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing (EMDR)

EMDR therapy does not require talking in detail about the distressing issue or completing homework between sessions. EMDR therapy, rather than focusing on changing the
emotions, thoughts, behaviors, or sensations resulting from the distressing issue, allows the brain to resume its natural healing process.

EMDR therapy is designed to resolve unprocessed experiences caused by states of overwhelm (when our brain goes “off-line” and can’t understand what the rest of our system did to make it through).

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Flash- Memory reconsolidation

Want to work on a disturbing memory, but afraid of being swallowed by pain? FLASH can help reduce that feeling of reliving the experiance so you feel empowered, rather than stuck in defense mode.

Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP)

Gold-standard treatment of Obsessive Compulsive disorder (OCD).

OCD is a protective mechanism in the brain that guards an individual from experiencing painful thoughts, feelings and physical sensations by making mental representations of their fears and creating scary thoughts to keep the person from doing/being/feeling what they fear. But here’s the thing… the thought has the person all wrong!! A person with OCD would NEVER actually act on the feared thought. It is NOT WHO THEY ARE! This is where ERP is effective. We will build an understanding of self vs. thoughts, and work though the fears together starting with the smallest one. OCD is tricky but we have the power of knowing the truth and a tool called ERP to beat it!

Guided Drawing

sensory-motor psychotherapy

Guided Drawing is an art-based therapy created to allow for physical and emotional expression. Sometimes the human mind can make experiences too complicated to be processed by the body or emotions (we think too much or try to over explain our sensory experiance). This habit can keep people from fully processing and moving through events. With guided drawing, I help guide people through the patterns of their physical/emotional experiences, into the processing pace and feeling that is Most representative of their AUTHENTIC SELF/EXPERIANCE. This is a great way of processing for overthinkers, sensory processing differences (SPD, Highly Sensitive People, ect.), Autistics’ and those with pre-verbal trauma.