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Today, I want to share some of my favorite parts of trauma work. Many times, the first thing we think of when we think of trauma therapy is that it is hard work (which is often true) and that it can be very heavy (also true). However, this work also includes some exciting and joyful moments. Here are two examples: The Moment When a Client describes a Problem and the Path is Clear One of my favorite moments in therapy actually happens early in the process, when I am meeting

Internal Family Systems, or IFS for short, is a type of parts work that is used in therapy. There are many different frameworks for doing parts work, but IFS is my personal favorite. In parts work, we observe that all people have different 'parts' of themselves that run certain aspects of their lives, show up in certain ways, or have a certain role they play in our inner world. Examples of common parts that people have or recognize are a 'perfectionist part' that tries to

Somatic EMDR is EMDR therapy with a focus on the body. In traditional EMDR, the therapist asks about the emotions, the negative thoughts, the intensity, and the body, and then proceeds with trauma processing. Depending on the therapist and how they were trained, they may or may not ask follow up questions about these specific areas. When EMDR is done with a somatic focus, there is more focus placed on the body and the nervous system. For example, when I do EMDR with client

An EMDR Intensive is similar to EMDR therapy that happens in weekly sessions, but there are a few key differences. In regular EMDR therapy, we spend part of each hour checking in and then part of the hour grounding before closing, meaning that only a 30-45 minutes is spent doing processing. In an EMDR intensive, we do long chunks of work at once, so that once we get into the more intense pieces of processing, we can keep going until we finish the memory we are working on and

EMDR stands for Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing. EMDR is a therapy modality that involves using eye movements (or other types of movements, called bilateral stimulation) to move stuckness out of the body, brain, and nervous system. It is a structured treatment that looks very different from other types of therapy. In EMDR therapy, your therapist will guide you through identifying which memories and experiences you will treat, and then they will guide you thro