Welcome.
If you're a people-pleaser and perfectionist, and there's this inner pressure all the time, there is hope. If you feel that you have to do for others, and you never end up taking care of yourself, you can change.
If your feelings are either taking over constantly, causing you to make decisions at the moment that you regret later, OR they are shoved so far down that you can barely access them, you don’t have to stay there. It may be that whenever you try to communicate your needs, your voice somehow gets stuffed down because someone else has something important come up at the moment. Sometimes it has been stuffed down so many times that eventually, you explode in a display of frustration that you may feel embarrassed about later. We can work through this together.
Stop the suffering. Heal the trauma that has been stuck in your body for far too long.
The people I work with tend to be women who have experienced sexual Trauma or bad relationships, Health Issues, or issues from Childhood.
Before beginning the process of EMDR, many of my clients say:
"The past doesn’t feel like it’s in the past, it feels like it is happening right now, all over again."
"These nightmares are exhausting."
"Why do I feel so anxious over something so small?"
“I cannot drive past that place without shaking.”
"Why do I keep falling into the same situations over and over?"
"I have so many tears and so much anger, even though what happened was years ago."
Your body is responding to threat.
Therapy can help.
I specialize in trauma-informed care including EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing), Somatic Integration and Processing, and EFT (Emotionally Focused Therapy).
EMDR is a type of therapy that allows us to process trauma in a condensed format. I have found that to utilize this best, taking one large chunk of time to work through a traumatic event (or events) is extremely powerful and can be life-changing.
In-person and telehealth sessions are available in the state of Arizona. The in-person sessions are available on Wednesdays & Fridays in Phoenix.