Benefits of Adding Neurofeedback to Complex Trauma Recovery
Complex trauma is more than a recent trend; it’s a profoundly disruptive experience impacting countless individuals. It refers to trauma stemming from long-standing and often relational betrayal, frequently occurring in childhood and involving caregivers. Such early betrayals, particularly those involving abuse or neglect, fundamentally shape our brain’s ability to navigate life’s challenges and relationships. In […]
Friendships, Social Media and the Modern Experience of Boundaries
Boundaries are the rules we set within relationships for how we will interact with others. While these have always remained a mystery for teens who are growing into their own social experiences and independent relationships, social media creates additional layers of unspoken demands and expectations. So what is relevant in creating healthy relationships on social […]
Worry about Anxiety: Looking at the Facts Can Help….Changing Mindset is Even Better
Seeking mental health support can be a bit of a rollercoaster. The push and pull of feeling something is wrong, wanting to have an answer and also being afraid that something actually is. It could seem that seeking a diagnosis might even become a self-fulfilling prophecy when it comes to anxiety. Great news, there are […]
What Fear of Missing Out (FoMO) Says about Your Relationship with Social Media
The phrase “FoMO” has reached it’s 20th year in existence and in the last seven years has even warranted attention from several psychological studies. While fear of missing out (FoMO) might be used generally in life, the original context is in relation to online social media interactions and experiences. It might seem as if the […]
The psychology of thinking too much: How rumination becomes unhelpful coping
The joke is often it feels like “too many tabs or open”, a humorous way to say there is a lot on our mind. This also alludes to the unproductive nature of holding too many things in our mind. While it can take practice and often direct feedback from a counselor or therapist, even children […]
How CPTSD Changes Our Brians
Trauma awareness is having a moment right now. Perhaps the collective experience of the pandemic has created a lot of level ground when we talk about how terrifying, out-of-control-moments tax our health and even our future capacity for handling stress. When we talk about trauma, we can talk about single, impactful life-events that caused threat […]
Big Feelings and Back to School Success
If you have been shopping at Target this week, then you know the prepping is real. The search for new outfits and needed supplies pointing to a looming reality: school is back. While jitters and nervousness are to be expected, there are things that can help moderate the stress and anxiety for kids heading back […]
Complex Trauma and Finding Your Focus for Therapy
Trauma isn’t just a popular word, it’s a real thing that happens to a lot of people. It also refers to many different experiences and one type of trauma can be very different than another. Sometimes it can be a single life event that changes our ability to cope. Another type of trauma involves intentional, […]
The Biology of Inner Dialogue: Self-Talk is Physical
Self-talk might sound like an conversation with your counselor, but those words have been adopted as a training technique for athletes. Depending on the nature of the self-talk, athletes can change their performance, not always for the better. Studying the outcomes is fascinating. In a world where performance equals numbers, the connection of self-talk training […]
The Power of Self-Talk in Reversing a Trauma-Response
In recent years the world of counseling and psychology is exploring the power of the body in the psychological experience. This is not really a frontier, the distinction of body and mind are newer ideas we use to categorize the human experience. When it comes to health outcomes, even the medical world agrees; the body […]