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How EMDR Can Help You Process Trauma from Denver’s 24/7 News Cycle

If you’ve ever felt anxious, tense, or emotionally drained after keeping up with Denver’s nonstop news cycle, you’re not alone. Stories of wildfires, violence, political unrest, and public health concerns can leave your nervous system feeling like it’s always on high...

EMDR First Session in Denver: Everything You Need to Know

If you’re reading this, you’ve already taken a brave first step toward healing. As an EMDR therapist with over 12 years of experience, I’ve had the privilege of witnessing countless individuals transform their lives through this powerful therapeutic...

Where Trauma Is Stored in the Body Chart

Your body remembers what your mind tries to forget. You feel it in the way your shoulders tense when certain memories surface, or how your stomach tightens in familiar situations that once brought pain.  Sometimes you can’t even pinpoint why your heart races in...
How to Model Positive Behavior as a Parent

How to Model Positive Behavior as a Parent

How do we model positive behavior as parents? Children learn far more from what they consistently see than from what they are simply told. The way parents handle stress, emotions, conflict, and relationships often becomes a child’s model for how to move through the...

3 Ways To Begin Breaking A Cycle

Why do the same emotional patterns keep repeating? Anxiety, anger, people-pleasing, emotional shutdown, or unhealthy relationship dynamics are often connected to unresolved experiences that were never fully processed emotionally. Simply trying to “move on” from...

4 Ways to Survive Mother’s Day Grief

  Every May, a holiday comes around that is filled with food, flowers and love. At least that’s how the media portrays Mother’s Day. This may have been true for you at one time or another. However, it’s wise to acknowledge that there are more than a few...

Meeting your child’s emotional needs

  Babies aren’t born to name or identify their emotions. However, they do feel their emotions. What is the cause of their crying? There are pain cries, hunger cries, dirty diaper cries, and ‘I need you’ cries. Parents can and must learn how to meet their ...

Parenting is Hard

Parenting is hard. Very hard. Many tell me of their guilt for feeling angry, or for taking a minute to themselves so they can mentally re-group. Their mind immediately goes to “I am a bad parent”. A large part of what makes parents doubt themselves is all of our...

Understanding Postpartum Mental Health Needs

Why can the postpartum period feel emotionally overwhelming even when you love your baby deeply? Gratitude and emotional pain can exist together at the same time, even though many mothers feel pressure to appear constantly happy after childbirth. Physical recovery,...

EMDR Intensives?

What they are and how they can help EMDR Intensives have been shown to help people process in a shorter amount of time. Some therapists solely do intensives vs. single sessions. These therapists all report faster processing. Processing happens faster because there is...