EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) is an eight-phase treatment that can alter the brain’s neurological response to triggering events in response to trauma. If you would like to learn …
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What is EMDR?
In society, trauma has long been recognized, but under different terms to describe it, such as shellshock in veterans. Unfortunately, trauma has not always been addressed in a manner that …
Living By Your Values
The term value is thrown around often, but how often do we recognize values for the importance they have in directing our lives? When examining the term value, whether it …
What is Mindfulness? And Why It Can Be Helpful
Mindfulness is the act of being an observer of the self, nonjudgmentally, in the present moment where real life happens. We often move from one thing to the next without …
Healing Takes Time: Next Steps in Growth
Healing takes time. Often, I find my clients talking about how much they wish that time could speed up and that they could change more quickly. Many times we talk …
Personal Growth: Everyone Says We Should, but Why?
Life is busy, let’s face it. Pre-covid, we were stacked with everything under the moon to keep us going, we were so busy some of us did not even know …
The Room for Possibility and Experiencing Torus Therapy
As winter slowly ceases and makes room for the possibility of Spring, a sense of hope grows for many. I have seen the struggle during the Chicagoland winter. The absence …
3 Reasons You May Be Struggling To Find Love
There are so many types of love we can experience. Platonic, unconditional, soul-level, maternal, long-term, brief and passionate, arranged, etc. It would be wrong to presume that everyone is out …
What is Self-Trust? Why is it so Hard? And Ways to Build It
The topic of trust comes up in a variety of forms in therapy. Often in questions surrounding why it is so hard, where it stems from, and how to build …
Why The Whole World Appears To Be Single
This is the moment in time when more people are consciously choosing to be single than ever before. According to studies conducted by the Pew Research Center, 128 million Americans …