Online Counseling Services
Counseling Specialties
Online Individual Therapy
I support individuals with the following challenges:
Trauma
Reaction to severe stress
Depression
Anxiety
Attachment and relationship issues
The goal of individual therapy is to focus on your unique needs. Through individual therapy, I can help you identify specific behavioral objectives and action steps that can allow you to experience a forward-facing approach to healing. You may feel lost when you need more guidance, resources, or the necessary tools to solve a problem. This can seep into other areas such as family life, friendships, and work. In therapy, we aim to identify the obstacles and the core beliefs that may be keeping you feeling stuck. We will work together to identify a more healthy and adaptive thought process and build the resources to help you achieve a sense of life balance and well-being.
Trauma Work & EMDR
As defined by SAMHSA (Substance Abuse Mental Health Services Administration) individual trauma can result from a single negative event, series of events, or set of circumstances experienced by an individual as physically or emotionally harmful or threatening and that has lasting adverse effects on the individual’s functioning and physical, social, emotional, or spiritual well-being.
Symptoms of Trauma:
Intrusive memories of the adverse event
Distressing dreams or nightmares
Intense or prolonged psychological or physical distress
A sense of numbness
Difficulty experiencing positive emotions
Negative beliefs such as self-blame, shame, reckless or self-destructive behaviors
Some Causes of Trauma:
Childhood Abuse or Neglect
Sexual Assault
Intimate Partner Violence
Loss and prolonged instability experienced through the COVID pandemic
Accidents leading to disability or near-death experience
Violence in a community such as mass shootings
Witnessing the loss of life through conflict or war zones
I use a trauma-informed care approach focused on reducing exposure to overwhelming events, increasing the capacity to cope and care for yourself, learning healthy coping skills, and increasing physical and emotional safety.
EMDR Therapy
My clients have reported that this approach has allowed them to feel empowered by having choices and accessible tools to better manage symptoms.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) was established by Francine Shapiro, Ph.D in the 1980’s as she was studying the connection between the desensitization effects from rapid eye movement and persistent upsetting memories. EMDR allows the brain to tap into the memory network, where our experiences are stored so we can move the traumatic experience from being “frozen” to recognizing current triggers and learning more adaptive coping strategies for the future.
This treatment approach helps to provide a cognitive shift from a sense of helplessness to feeling relief and more in control of the thoughts and emotional responses.
EMDR is one of the most researched treatment approaches with efficient results as well as a preferred form of treatment for trauma.
For more information on EMDR, please visit the EMDR International Association.
“Trauma creates changes you don't choose. Healing creates change you do choose.”
~Michele Rosenthal
Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction
Mindfulness is a way to access your ability to fully attend to what is happening now at this very moment. Often when a person has had a traumatic experience, they can dwell on the past or have an overwhelming fear of the future. Mindfulness practice may help guide you to have awareness of the difficult thoughts and emotions you are experiencing, while also gaining control and a sense of relief in the present moment.
Top 5 Research Based Benefits of Mindfulness:
Stress Reduction
Increased Focus and Attention
Decreased Emotional Reactivity
More Engaged in Personal Relationships
Decreased Rumination or dwelling on the past
“I can be changed by what happens to me, but I refuse to be reduced by it.”
~Maya Angelou
“In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you.”
— Deepak Chopra
