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Heal Your Body – An EMDR Therapist Near South Kenosha

Anxiety, Attachment Trauma, Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Depression, Evidence-based therapy, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, Individual Therapy, Mental Health, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Therapy, Recovery, Trauma, Wellness

EMDR therapy helps people heal from the bottom-up versus talk therapy, or top-down therapies. An EMDR therapist near you can help heal the nervous system from past traumatic experiences and/or situations that caused high levels of stress and overwhelm. EMDR therapy’s effectiveness stems from evidence-based research studies. EMDR is also showing effectiveness to help other […]

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Managing Survivor’s Guilt: Life After Trauma

Awareness, Evidence-based therapy, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, Recovery, Survivor's Guilt, Trauma, Vicarious Trauma, Wellness

This blog post will explore ‘what is survivor’s guilt’, the challenges survivor’s guilt creates in one’s life, and how to heal from survivor’s guilt afterward. Survivor’s guilt may follow a traumatic experience that takes the life of someone you know or severely harms someone who was in the vicinity or area that you were in.

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Finding Peace After the Storm: A Guide to Healing Chronic Trauma

Awareness, Evidence-based therapy, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, Mental Health, Recovery, Somatic Experiencing, Wellness

Trauma can occur at any moment or in any experience in life. This blog post will explore the situations that may create chronic trauma, the effects of chronic traumatization on life, and what and how to heal from chronic traumatization. A side note – even if traumatic experiences have occurred years or decades in the

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Impacts of Chronic Stress on Life

Awareness, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, Stress, Wellness

Chronic stress, especially over prolonged periods, can negatively impact life. What are the impacts of chronic stress on life? This topic of chronic stress will be highlighted in this blog post. Additionally, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy will be touched on as a way to address and alleviate stress held within the body.

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What Does Grief and Loss Look Like?

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, Grief and Loss, Individual Therapy, Recovery

Every person will experience grief and loss differently in life. Many factors impact how an individual will experience grief and loss. A person’s culture, upbringing, socioeconomic status, and ethnicity may all impact how grief and loss are experienced. Whenever a connection with something we care about is severed, grief and loss can occur. But what

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Healing Attachment Trauma

Attachment Trauma, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, Individual Therapy, Recovery, Trauma

Healing attachment trauma can be a long process. Prolonged brakes in loving connection, invalidation, and trauma are usually needed to disrupt a child’s attachment style. One or two events likely won’t be enough. This is why healing attachment trauma can take a long time. It is the profound neglect and lack of connection that needs

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Utilizing Grounding Skills: 9 Skills to Help You Ground Yourself

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Awareness, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, Grounding Skills, Individual Therapy, Wellness

We go through life and often do not acquire the skills to regulate our emotions, nervous system, or mental health symptoms when they arise. So, when we do need to ground ourselves, we can feel adrift in the middle of the ocean with no direction. Utilizing grounding skills to help manage these challenges can be

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Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) Readiness

Addiction, Anxiety, Awareness, Depression, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, Individual Therapy, Recovery, Self-harm, Wellness

EMDR therapy is a powerful, bottom-up intervention to heal past trauma(s) or when someone has experienced intense overwhelm. But how does someone know they are ready for EMDR therapy? A brief overview of EMDR therapy will be provided in this blog post as well as the answer to this question. EMDR Overview EMDR therapy is

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A Guide to Trauma Therapy

Awareness, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, Individual Therapy, Mental Health, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Therapy, Recovery, Trauma, Wellness

Trauma therapy can seem complex to navigate, especially for those in need of this support. This blog post will provide an overview guide to trauma therapy for those who are interested in this topic. Understanding Trauma There are many different forms of trauma. Some of the differences in trauma include the age of onset. For

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What Makes Individual Therapy Effective?

Awareness, Cognitive Processing Therapy, Evidence-based therapy, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, Mental Health, Self-esteem, Self-growth, Somatic Experiencing, Wellness

Individual therapy may include many different types of therapeutic modalities as well as target many different forms of mental health symptoms and challenges. But what makes individual therapy effective? Is it the therapist, the client, the form of therapy, or all of the above? Different Components of Therapy Every therapist has similarities as well as

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