Trauma

Jan 15, 20232 min

Are you terrified of becoming a parent, because you didn’t have the greatest parenting role models?

I hear you, and Lindsay Gibson's book, Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents, can help you begin to untangle all of that. This...

Nov 5, 20224 min

What is EMDR?

Yep, another therapy acronym! EMDR -- eye movement desensitization and reprocessing therapy -- is a very different approach than...

Jul 15, 20213 min

What is IFS?

IFS stands for Internal Family Systems therapy, developed by Richard Schwartz in the late 1980s. While IFS can be used with families,...

Apr 27, 20201 min

Shut-In and Shut-Down. What's Up With That?

You’ve likely heard of the “flight, fight, or freeze” response to threat. Polyvagal theory describes how these responses are controlled...