“Practicing hope” is not about denying the troubling aspects of today’s world. It is about holding hope alongside the difficult feelings.

An enigma to many, EMDR is an effective way of helping survivors of trauma to process and relieve the impact of traumatic experiences.

Like the environment, trauma survivors can be at the same time fragile and stable, sensitive and strong.

Comorbidity is a bleak-sounding word, however it just means a client is experiencing the simultaneous presence of two or more conditions.

Looking at coping skills we use and at why we choose them helps us identify and update the ones that are more costly than beneficial.

Mindfulness about the attention we pay and the intention we follow may be key to a more peaceful close of another difficult year.

Anger, like any emotion that does not get resolved, morphs and intensifies into something else (e.g., rage, boredom, apathy, depression).

PTSD is a familiar term to most of us. But for trauma therapists, the lesser-known term CPTSD (Complex-PTSD), is more eloquent and accurate.

For the traumatized and victimized, the desire to speed up and speed through healing is a natural and common trauma response.

Therapeutic Writing can be a powerful way for survivors to process emotions, experiences, and thoughts if it is done with self-care in mind.

Survivors may question their trauma if memories are unclear or emotional responses change; this is typical and may be symptoms of the trauma

Understanding the indicators of Emotional Immaturity in a parent can help us recognize and heal from the impact of growing up with one.

The “Horse Sense for People” way of training horses has yielded powerful insights into working with trauma survivors.

How to increase our capacity for joy and happiness and find greater peace of mind when our brain starts to “dress rehearse tragedy.”

There are ways to take care of ourselves and still feel our feelings about living through a worldwide pandemic.

What it might mean to finally start feeling safe enough to reflect on what our year(s) of collective trauma have done to us.

An exploration of what it might be like to reward your body with trust, rather than punishment.

To fully experience the joy that can come with the holiday season, we must acknowledge the accompanying loss and grief.

There are few forms of distance that are so complex, hidden, and misunderstood as a chosen estrangement from family.

The ways in which Dissociative Identity Disorder is slowly becoming more normalized and understandable in both science and daily life.