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Trauma, anxiety, grief, ADHD, teenagers and the postpartum period. Here we strive to provide helpful mental health tools you can use to improve your life.
- Back to School Stress? How Trauma Therapy Can Help Teens Thrive The start of a new school year brings excitement - and often, a lot of stress. Teens are juggling heavier workloads, shifting friendships, after-school… Aug 20, 2025 · 10 min read
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Our Hearts are Broken: Coping with Grief, Loss, and Helplessness After the Texas Flooding This weekend, over the holiday, I spent the weekend single mom-ing, because my husband was out of town celebrating a friend's birthday. We decided to divide… Jul 11, 2025 · 3 min read -
Listening to Your Body’s Intuition: Reclaiming Clarity After Trauma There is a quiet wisdom within each of us - an inner compass that whispers through the body. Sometimes it’s a clench in the gut when something feels off, or… Jun 16, 2025 · 15 min read -
Regulating Emotions Through the Body: Simple Somatic Tools for Grounding and Healing As a trauma-informed therapist, I often tell my clients: You can’t think your way out of an overwhelmed nervous system. Our emotions live in the body. They… May 30, 2025 · 12 min read -
Title: “What Is EMDR Therapy for Trauma - and Could It Help You Heal?” Have you ever felt stuck in the past, as though an old traumatic experience keeps playing on a loop in your body and mind, no matter how much time has… May 23, 2025 · 13 min read -
When Trauma Chooses for Us: How Our Past Shapes Relationships (and What We Can Do About It) Have you ever found yourself wondering why you keep ending up in the same kinds of relationships, despite your best intentions to choose differently? You’re… May 3, 2025 · 16 min read -
Into the Storm: Learning to Recognize and Navigate Fight-or-Flight Energy Associated with stress and PTSD, and if Trauma Therapy Can Help By: Bonnie King, Ph.D., LPC-S, CSC Apr 25, 2025 · 14 min read -
Noticing the Small Shifts: The Path to Nervous System Healing When Engaging in Trauma Therapy. When we work to reshape habitual response patterns, we often focus on the big moments - the ones where change is undeniable. A panic attack that no longer… Apr 3, 2025 · 17 min read -
Sitting with Your Feelings: A Path to Better Communication, and When Trauma Therapy Can Help Have you ever noticed that if you sit with a feeling long enough - without judgment - it starts to shift? Mar 18, 2025 · 15 min read -
The Space Between: Finding Freedom in Our Responses and How Trauma Therapy can Guide Communication There is a moment - brief, but powerful - that exists between what happens to us and how we respond. Viktor Frankl, a psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor,… Mar 4, 2025 · 15 min read -
Discipline vs. Commitment: How Trauma Therapy Can Help you Avoid the Allure of Hustle Culture In today’s world, “hustle culture” tells us that success is only possible through relentless effort, constant productivity, and pushing past exhaustion. We… Feb 21, 2025 · 14 min read -
Learning Self-Compassion in Trauma Therapy: A Radical Tool for Healing Self-compassion is often misunderstood. Before I learned about the research in support of this approach to self-care and healing, I was skeptical about if it… Feb 21, 2025 · 15 min read
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