Your Questions, Answered

  • Nurses, Practitioners, and Healthcare Workers

    Therapists and Counselors (LSW, LCSW, LPC)

    Teachers and Coaches

    First Responders

    Immigrants from Volatile Countries 

  • Clients with: 

    Treatment Resistant Depression

    Persistent Anxiety

    Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

    Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (CPTSD)

    Attachment Wounding, Rejection Sensitivity, and Fears of Abandonment

    History of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE)- verbal abuse, physical abuse, sexual abuse, neglect, family dysfunction, addiction, substance abuse and mental illness

    Treatment Resistant Mood Disorders

    Unexplained Physical Symptoms

    Headache and Migraine

  • My approach is complemented by my Advanced Practice Nursing education and experience. I see mental health through a unique lens that is an amalgamation of my professional expertise and my lived experience. I have the ability to apply an intuitive, yet perceptive awareness that supports my ability to meet clients needs. I have the discernment that helps me notice phenomenon that others do not. 

  • Dissociation is a clinically significant term for involuntary disconnection from thoughts, identity, or reality, often linked to trauma. This is different from disassociation, which is a psychosocial term describing a conscious, voluntary action of cutting ties with a person, group, or idea. This distinction is important. 

  • Providing consultation

    • with respect for the foundational principles of EMDR therapy, 

    • consistent with published EMDRIA Standards,

    • while aligning with current evidence, 

    • meeting the needs of the adult learner, 

    • maintaining cultural sensitivity, 

    • through collaboration of knowledge, skills, and experience consistent with the EMDR modality of care. 

  • What do I offer?

    • The intention to maintain a safe environment for all learners

    • Emphasis on the brain based/Central Nervous System model of assessment and treatment approaches

    • Honoring the nature of PTSD, CPTSD, dissociation, and structural dissociation and discussion of appropriate therapeutic interventions

    • Acknowledgement of counter transference and appropriate self check in recommendations

    • Integration of ego states theoretical approaches, attachment wounding assessment and interventions, and the role of these concepts in EMDR approaches

    • Approaches to facilitate expansion of positive cognitions, optimism, and hope in clients. 

    • Demonstration of receptivity to learning and the understanding that we, as clinicians, can be enough.