Our services.
Trama Therapy
I offer a compassionate and supportive environment where you can safely explore and work through the challenges trauma has left behind. Together, we will create a space for healing, focusing on regulating your emotions, thoughts, and reactions. My goal is to empower you to reconnect with your inner strength and return to everyday life with more confidence, resilience, and a sense of peace. Whether you’re dealing with past experiences or ongoing stress, I’m here to guide you on your journey to emotional balance and healing.
EMDR
EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) is a type of psychotherapy that helps individuals process and heal from traumatic experiences or distressing memories. It is particularly effective for people with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), anxiety, and other trauma-related conditions. During an EMDR session, the therapist uses bilateral stimulation—usually in the form of guided eye movements, but sometimes tapping or sounds—to help the brain process and integrate traumatic memories.
The primary goal of EMDR is to reduce the emotional charge associated with painful memories, enabling individuals to reframe those memories in a more neutral or positive way. This process helps individuals reprocess the trauma, allowing them to move past the distress it causes, rather than being stuck in the emotional pain tied to those memories.
How EMDR Differs from Regular Talk Therapy:
Focus on the Trauma: While traditional talk therapy, such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), often involves discussing emotions, behaviors, and thought patterns related to a trauma, EMDR specifically focuses on reprocessing the traumatic memory itself. It targets the distressing memories directly, using the bilateral stimulation to help the brain process them more effectively.
Bilateral Stimulation: The hallmark of EMDR is the use of bilateral stimulation (typically eye movements) to stimulate both sides of the brain, facilitating the processing of traumatic memories. Regular talk therapy doesn't involve this unique technique and instead relies on conversation and cognitive work.
Memory Processing vs. Cognitive Restructuring: Traditional talk therapy may focus more on changing thought patterns (such as through cognitive restructuring in CBT), whereas EMDR directly addresses the emotional distress tied to memories, aiming to reprocess and diminish the emotional intensity of those memories. EMDR helps individuals "reframe" the memory by reducing its negative emotional impact, while talk therapy works more on altering thoughts and behaviors over time.
Quicker Results for Trauma: EMDR tends to be a faster therapeutic approach for trauma resolution compared to traditional talk therapy. In many cases, clients experience relief from traumatic memories and symptoms more quickly with EMDR, often after fewer sessions than with conventional therapy approaches.
Less Verbal Processing: While talk therapy typically involves a lot of verbal expression and exploration of thoughts and feelings, EMDR can involve less direct conversation about the trauma. The therapy focuses on the sensory and emotional processing of the memories through the bilateral stimulation, and clients may not have to talk in-depth about every detail of the traumatic experience.
In essence, EMDR is a structured, trauma-focused therapy that uses specific techniques to help the brain process and heal from trauma, whereas regular talk therapy usually involves discussing emotional issues, thought patterns, and behaviors to work through challenges.
Irlen
What Is Irlen Syndrome Screening?
Irlen Syndrome screening and testing are provided for people who have difficulty with reading, learning difficulties, low motivation, ADD, headaches, autism, or traumatic brain injury (TBI).
Irlen Syndrome is a visual processing problem, where certain colors of the light spectrum tend to irritate the brain. It is not a problem with the eyes. It is a problem with the way the brain processes visual information. People with Irlen Syndrome commonly experience light sensitivity
Now offering intensives
Now offering intensives
Intensives
We are so excited to offer a brand new service! Therapy intensives are structured, immersive therapeutic programs designed to offer deep, focused treatment over a short period. Typically ranging from a few days to a week, these intensives involve multiple therapy sessions per day, allowing clients to work through complex emotional issues, trauma, or behavioral challenges in a concentrated setting. The goal is to provide fast progress by diving deeply into the root causes of distress, using various therapeutic modalities like cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), EMDR, trauma-informed therapy, and more.
Therapy intensives are particularly beneficial for individuals seeking rapid transformation, those dealing with persistent issues that traditional weekly therapy may not address effectively, or those who need a reset or breakthrough in a supportive, structured environment. The format can also be ideal for clients with busy schedules who prefer an accelerated therapeutic experience. These programs often include aftercare planning to ensure continued progress once the intensive period concludes.