PTSD
Recognizing Disorganized Attachment in Adult Psychotherapy
Disorganized attachment develops when a person’s early caregiver is both a source of comfort and fear. As adults, this often manifests as deep ambivalence, emotional dysregulation, and a lack of coherent strategies for intimacy or independence in relationships. Clues from How Clients Talk About Outside Relationships Contradictory descriptions of abusive relationships: Clients may say things…
When Your Caregiver Is Also Your Captor
What Serena and June Teach Us About Attachment Trauma We don’t need to be trapped in a dystopia to feel trapped by someone we once depended on. In The Handmaid’s Tale, June and Serena’s relationship is often framed as a political or moral battleground. But beneath the drama of Gilead’s theocracy, there’s something more intimate…
Aunt Lydia’s Moral Reckoning
Can People Like Aunt Lydia Change? What Her Partial Awakening Tells Us About Selective Empathy and Its Path Toward Redemption As The Handmaid’s Tale draws to a close, few character arcs are as surprising, or as psychologically rich, as Aunt Lydia’s. What began as a portrait of righteous cruelty becomes a study in conflicted loyalty, inner reckoning,…
The History of Psychedelics in Mental Health Care
Renewed Interest in Psychedelics Human use of psychedelics dates back thousands of years. Most commonly as part of religious or healing rituals. Over the last decade, there has been a renewed interest in exploring the potential benefits of psychedelic compounds. Researchers have investigated them for the treatment of several common psychiatric conditions. These include depression,…
My Sister Tells Me To “Get Over” My PTSD
Q: Over my lifetime I’ve had some bad stuff happen to me. Who hasn’t really. Mine maybe worse than other peoples and more than one time. As a result I tend to be jittery, irritable, distrustful of others. I can fly off the handle easily, even with loved ones. Sometimes this wears on my family…
Internal Family Systems’ Six-Step Process
IFS founder Dr. Richard Schwartz believes that we all have several parts living within us that fulfill both healthy and unhealthy roles. Life events or trauma, however, can force us out of those healthy roles into extreme roles. The goal of IFS therapy is to help clients to achieve balance within their internal system and…
Kindergarten and Covid Concerns
Q: School is starting soon, and I’m really worried for my 5-year-old daughter. I’m just not comfortable sending her, unvaccinated, to a new school. Let’s be real; we know kindergarteners are not going to keep their masks on. But she’s bored at home. I know she needs more than a weekly playdate pod. She missed her preschool friends…
Two Self-Care Techniques for Dealing with the Trauma of COVID-19
Q: I think I’m depressed. I’m not sure if it’s the coronavirus epidemic itself or cabin fever with the stay at home orders, frustration with MoCo online school, or fears about the future of our economy, but I am definitely not in a good place. I have more time than ever to finally clean out…
Alpha Stim Treating: Anxiety, Insomnia, and Depression
Little known device is treating symptoms of depression, anxiety, Insomnia without medications and almost no side effects. Safe non-invasive technology could help you to reduce your symptoms without medications and the risks or side-effects and withdrawal that come with their use. Information on a research project done by England’s National Institute for Health Research research…
Freaking out during social events
People who have experienced traumatic or distressful situations are more likely to be triggered by certain events or social interactions. The familiar intense emotions and physical trauma can suddenly appear when you least expected. Our clinicians’ extensive knowledge about the Polyvagal Theory can provide a better understanding of these unanticipated trigger moments by teaching you…
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