Integrating spirituality into the counseling process can create this kind of healing movement. We invite you to bring your faith, doubts, emotions and the wisdom of your body into our work together.

We all look for ways to manage overwhelming life circumstances, feelings or relationships and you may have turned to disordered eating. My work with you is not about blaming anyone or making you feel guilty.

Like a foreign object in the body can cause infection, emotional trauma can fester inside the body and soul, causing painful psychological and physical symptoms. I utilize a powerful tool for addressing and resolving deep emotional wounds: EMDR.

This is a sample exercise that I may do with a client around anxiety. It incorporates EMDR and Internal Family Systems to help you identify and work with the family system that exists within your own mind.

In EMDR, we practice the presence of being. We practice the art of noticing. This presence is a powerful force. This is not just wishful thinking or nice thoughts.

Are we remembering them in the present or reliving them in the past? Remembering creates healing and movement, reliving perpetuates rumination and stagnation.

I love facilitating a space for men to share what’s going on with them. A space where we talk about real stuff. When was the last time you talked about real stuff that’s going on with you?

I wanted to share some common symptoms and problems that are often (not always of course) present with males who come into my office:

• They have problems with anxiety and stress, and they internalize and absorb this stress

• They can’t get out of their head / their mind spins in circles

• They are more often than not analyzing / thinking / evaluating future tasks or past problems

• They have become increasingly more angry and irritable and notice that they snap at small, trivial things more than they used to

One major difference between EMDR and traditional talk therapy: learning to observe and notice your experience instead of trying to think our way to a solution. Below I hope to explain how this works and why it works.

Our natural tendency is to try to think harder and harder to solve what ails us. Our mind may tell us, “If I can just understand why that happened to me, I will feel better.”  While this makes perfect sense, the problem is that just knowing why something happened to us often doesn’t resolve our symptoms of trauma.

If you've ever experienced something overwhelming, you've had to cope somehow. Coping is something you do to be able to deal with your internal world (feelings, thoughts, memories) as it reacts to an outside stressor. Simply put, it's a way of comforting yourself.

In reality, you are coping with various stressors every day—a driver cutting you off, a pop quiz in math class, getting stuck in a long grocery line. But sometimes, you have an internal reaction to something that pushes you beyond your normal capacity to cope. When this happens, it's like poking a hole in a small boat.