Get Up and Create: How Art Helps the Impact of Trauma

  Currently our nation is going through a traumatic experience. We are feeling the loss of control and helplessness while we are put on strict probation. Our world has seemed to change overnight, and we are now left to navigate this new world. On a positive note,...

Spirituality as a Strength in Therapy

  Clients often present in therapy with a wide range of problems to work through.  However, when dealing with difficulties in life it’s easy to forget that each of us has a number of personal and relational strengths to help us both in session as well...

Importance of Group Therapy

Whether you’re a man or a woman, an addict or partner, or just searching for help and understanding, then you could benefit from group therapy. Having led groups of men of all ages in group therapy, I’ve seen first-hand the unique benefits group therapy...

Tools for Emotional Regulation

When we feel emotionally overwhelmed, we often will leave our window of tolerance, which is the place where we can comfortably cope with emotions and situations that come our way. When we operate outside of our window of tolerance, we may be hyperaroused (flooded,...

Embodied Healing

  I have recently been reading The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel Van Der Kolk, MD., a book exploring the ways in which our brains, minds, and bodies both hold, and in turn, can heal trauma. Trauma may feel like a scary therapy buzzword, and it becomes tempting...