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Restorative Connections Counseling
Trauma-Informed, Identity Affirming Therapy
My experience comes from working at an advocacy center with survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault, in community mental health, and with teens at a residential treatment center prior to private practice. I have enjoyed working with clients age 3 to 85 incorporating trauma-focused and multicultrual therapy. I fully completed EMDR training in 2019. I have training and experience with treating dissociative disorders, recent or ongoing traumatic stress, and disaster response therapy via EMDR therapy when appropriate.
Everything that you are doing now is for a reason. As we go through difficult, traumatic and even just new experiences, we respond in the best way we know how. If we survived it, we keep doing whatever it was that 'worked'. What worked before doesn't always continue serving us as circumstances change, and sometimes it wasn't ever the best solution in the first place. Luckily, we can learn to identify our triggers and survival responses to them, replacing them with healthier ways of coping/thinking/relating/communicating. |