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As EMDR clinicians, we know that healing trauma isn’t just about accessing memories—it’s about helping clients stay within their window...

Anxiety can emerge at any stage of life—but during midlife and perimenopause, it often arrives in unexpected waves. For many women, this chapter brings profound shifts—physiological, emotional, hormonal, and relational. If you're noticing increased anxiety, irritability, or overwhelm, you’re not alone—and you’re not broken.

You've completed your consultation hours and have your EMDR Basic Trained status, now what? You have the basic understanding of EMDR , the process and phases but is the investment in ongoing consultation of any benefit to you?

Understanding and applying the principles of the Polyvagal Theory can empower you to navigate life's challenges with greater ease

EMDR therapy is a treatment approach based in the neurobiological understanding health and healing. It is an integrative, mind-body...

Rooted in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), these styles are essentially mental habits—ways our minds try to make sense of the world, especially under stress. But left unchecked, they can cloud our perspective, increase anxiety, and limit our ability to respond with clarity and compassion.

The EMDR Therapy Journey EMDR therapy consists of eight phases, each integral to the healing process. Safety is the cornerstone of this journey, ensuring clients feel secure as they explore their experiences.

A woman in her middle years, wearing a green shirt, gets ready for a peaceful sleep by putting on a green sleep mask that matches her...

The intersection of menopause, mental health, and trauma healing represents one of the most significant yet under-addressed areas in clinica

Over the past year, I've been on a journey to explore the dynamic interplay between order and chaos in therapeutic work.

Nature Mandala inspired through Morning Altars tm practice About this Morning Altar ™ Mandala   Each altar that finds its way through my...

This blog explores a holistic approach of honoring the upcoming Autumn Equinox and working with healing the nervous system .

Understanding Grief Grief is about love. Mourning is about our unexpressed love and the ongoing expressions of the love. It becomes it's...

Morning Altars Therapuetic Nature Based Art Feeling part of something much larger than the self is music to our ears. This transformation...

EMDR Therapy Polyvagal Informed -EMDR is a specialized approach integrating the clinical applications of PVT and the eight phases of EMDR....

We are experiencing an epidemic of loneliness. This is multifaceted issue. We are experiencing so many losses of our daily routines, our rituals which create disconnection within ourselves. These are in addition to our losses in human to human connection. From a polyvagal lens, this has real impacts on our physical and emotional health.

Trauma-Informed (TI) Yoga, invites choice, connection and context. These are the 3 principles of creating nervous system safety. This provides a way of restoring the relationship of the body and mind. In TI Yoga, there is emphasis on being curious in the awareness of the sensations of our body in the present moment with invitational language.

Safety is not the absence of danger, it is the presence of connection. Dr. Gabor Mate Self-Regulation is an ongoing daily practice Some...

As there is may often a relationship of Trauma and OCD, EMDR can be utilized as a possible treatment option in a two-prong approach with OCD and Trauma. In my practice I offer ICBT for treatment of the OCD and then additionally work within the eight phases of EMDR working with a neurobiological approach in treatment of the trauma factors that may underlay or co-incide within the nervous system. Typically EMDR helps resolve traumatic material, can aid in desensitizing vulner

Our autonomic nervous system is our body's system of protection and connection. It is constantly surveilling our inner, outer and relational environments looking for cues of danger and cues of safety. This surveillance action is called neuroception. Neuroception is our perception without awareness. It is the neural platform of our biological experience. Through neuroception, we stay alive. However, without an understanding or practice of working with our neuroceptive cues,