Therapeutic Modalities

EMDR therapy (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) is a trauma-specific therapy designed to assist your brain in reprocessing overwhelming experiences that continue to affect you in the present. Through guided bilateral stimulation, we incorporate mindfulness and nervous system regulation to help your nervous system process these memories, making them feel less triggering or overwhelming. This approach also includes elements of psychoeducation and somatic-based therapy, enhancing your overall healing experience.

Somatic-based therapy emphasizes the vital connection between your mind and body, acknowledging that stress and trauma are often stored physically as well as emotionally. By incorporating mindfulness and nervous system regulation, we gently increase awareness of bodily sensations. This approach, alongside trauma specific therapy techniques like EMDR therapy, helps your nervous system release tension while providing essential psychoeducation to build a greater sense of safety and regulation.

Mindfulness and nervous system regulation are crucial components of trauma-specific therapy, helping you become aware of what’s happening in your body and mind in the present moment, especially during stress or emotional overwhelm. By integrating practices from psychoeducation and learning practical regulation skills, such as those found in EMDR therapy and somatic-based therapy, you can shift out of survival mode and feel more grounded, balanced, and in control.

Psychoeducation plays a crucial role in understanding how trauma, stress, and attachment experiences affect your brain, body, and relationships. By integrating concepts from EMDR therapy, mindfulness and nervous system regulation, and somatic-based therapy, you can gain insights into your responses. When you comprehend why you react in certain ways, it becomes easier to alleviate shame and embark on meaningful change through trauma-specific therapy.

Trauma-specific therapy, including approaches like EMDR therapy, directly addresses the impact of past traumatic experiences through evidence-based methods aimed at supporting healing and mindfulness and nervous system regulation. As a trauma-informed therapist, I prioritize safety, collaboration, and a respectful pace that works for you. This ensures that our work feels steady and empowering rather than overwhelming, and I also incorporate psychoeducation and somatic-based therapy to enhance your healing journey.

Attachment-based therapy, which can complement EMDR therapy, helps you notice how early childhood experiences shape your patterns in relationships, emotions, and connection. By exploring these patterns and practicing new ways of relating through techniques like mindfulness and nervous system regulation, you can heal old wounds. Additionally, incorporating psychoeducation and somatic-based therapy can enhance your understanding of these dynamics. Ultimately, this trauma specific therapy enables you to create relationships that are trusting, supportive, and secure.

The Circle of Security Parenting Program helps you understand your child’s emotional needs and how your responses shape their sense of safety and connection. By learning practical ways to tune in, support, and set limits with confidence—similar to techniques used in EMDR therapy, mindfulness and nervous system regulation, and somatic-based therapy—you can strengthen trust, foster secure attachments, and feel more connected as a parent or caregiver. This program also offers valuable psychoeducation to enhance your understanding of trauma specific therapy, further enriching your parenting journey.