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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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Traumatic Brain Injuries and Identity Challenges

Anxiety, Awareness, Depression, Recovery, Trauma, Traumatic Brain Injury Recovery, Wellness

Traumatic Brain injuries (TBIs) can present as complex physical health challenges. However, TBIs can also create mental health problems. Another less-known fact about TBIs is the identity challenge(s) people experience afterward. This blog post will explore this topic after a brief overview of TBIs. TBI Overview TBIs can occur from within the body when referencing

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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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Navigate Mental Health Resources

Awareness, Individual Counseling, Mental Health Resources, Recovery, Relationship Counseling, Wellness

Facing mental health symptoms and their associated challenges can be intimidating and daunting. It can also be a powerless endeavor as one recognizes that mental health symptoms rarely come and go but more so come and stay throughout someone’s life. The hard part of living with mental health symptoms is learning how to navigate the

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How Does Somatic Experiencing Therapy Work?

Awareness, Evidence-based therapy, Individual Therapy, Mental Health, Recovery, Somatic Experiencing, Trauma, Wellness

Somatic Experiencing (SE) therapy was designed by Dr. Peter Levine to assist with healing from various forms of trauma, nervous system dysregulation, and other disruptions within the mind-body connection. SE is considered a bottom-up form of therapy meaning that SE helps people heal from the body, nervous system, and then up the brain direction versus

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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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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Panic

Awareness, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Evidence-based therapy, Individual Therapy, Recovery, Wellness

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) has been shown to be effective in reducing the frequency and intensity of panic attacks. This blog post will explore how CBT therapy works and how it can alleviate panic attack symptoms. How Does CBT Therapy Work? CBT therapy was developed by the late Aaron Beck in the 1960s. Click here

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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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What’s the Difference Between Grounding and Mindfulness Skills?

Awareness, Grounding Skills, Mindfulness Skills, Recovery, Wellness

Two skills individual therapists and mental health counselors talk a lot about are grounding skills and mindfulness skills. But what’s the difference between grounding and mindfulness skills? Are they the same or different? Does one skill work better than the other? When to use which skill? In this blog post, we’ll explore these topics. Purpose

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