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I am a trauma therapist. However, if you are looking for other types of therapy, I can help.

I am entirely specialized as a trauma therapist, but if you need other types of therapy, keep reading. I work with with children and...

Does anyone care?

I suppose the picture says it all. The useful thing about EMDR is that it is a good fit for kids who don't know quite how to put...

Families and trauma

Trauma doesn't occur in a vacuum, and neither do the symptoms related to past trauma and abuse. Families are affected in a number of...

Are your mental health symptoms the result of trauma?

50% of individuals who seek out any type of therapy, including marriage therapy, have a major trauma in their past. (statistic from "The...

Foster care and massive childhood trauma

We currently have about 400,000 children in our foster care system, and all are at extremely high risk. As the average stay in foster...

Tik-Tok is leading to unusual mental illness among teens

Here is an article [click here to read article] on a frightening new phenomenon in the past few years: social media usage creating new...

MASS HYSTERIA!!!

Increasing social media use by adolescents has amplified a strange phenomenon--mass hysteria, or as it is called now, Mass Psychogenic...

What is EMDR? (a short brochure I give out)

This (see below images) is a six-page brochure I give to clients. I would call this a good description of what a "Basic Trained" EMDR...

Fake Labels vs. Mental Health

As a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, I have as much training in diagnosis as an LPC, LCSW, LMHC, and so on. However, LMFT's...

Fake security vs freedom: Mental illness should not be "cool." Labels should not be identities.

Fake security vs freedom: Mental illness should not be "cool." Labels should not be identities. A label is not going to give your life...