I always have some words of hope for my clients when I feel they are most in need. What I say might surprise you. I say, "My goal for you...

Prominent photographer Mark Laita gave up his career to conduct hundreds of interviews on YouTube with the most broken individuals in our...

The EMDR early trauma protocol recognizes that the foundations for emotional dysregulation and other symptoms of traumatic experience are...

Here is a poem a new client of mine wrote about PTSD, shared with permission. She is just beginning her journey of healing with EMDR. If...

It was already known from the classic ACE study (Adverse Childhood Experiences) that those with childhood trauma are at a vastly...

What is a well-resourced childhood? It's not only a childhood free from adverse childhood events (ACEs) like drugs in the home, sex...

I recently read something very encouraging by a professor who was the world's top expert in suicide. He wondered, as I often have, why...

Most of my clients struggle with an increased sense of shame that shadows the primary reason they are seeking treatment. Perhaps the...

I have a 14-year-old boy in therapy who has had six serious traumatic experiences in his life, including sexual abuse and seeing a friend...

When I saw this in a respected journal of pediatric medicine, I was surprised, not because of what it says, but because of what it does...