If you are experiencing long term stress, your body goes into fight, flight or freeze mode—which means you may feel like you have to either try to escape, become aggressive, or silently wait for a threat to pass…

People with an anxious attachment style often feel insecure and their relationships consume a large part of their emotional energy…

One of the most powerful ways we can heal ourselves in couples therapy is to learn how to show up as our most authentic selves…

While pregnancy loss is common, occurring in about 10-20% of pregnancies, people who lose a longed-for child often suffer in silence. There are many reasons why this might occur…

As people around the globe adjust to help slow the spread of COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2), the novel coronavirus that causes respiratory infection, there are countless ways life as we know it has been turned upside down…

The outbreak of COVID-19 has quickly moved into a pandemic status, and it has been stressful and quite difficult to digest. The adjustment that everyone is facing has led to a series of losses, from social…

Experiencing a traumatic event is one of the main reasons people overuse alcohol or weed. Sometime people are unsure if their experiences count as traumatic, but a trauma is basically an intense, overwhelming emotional event…

So many people who walk in my door are struggling to change reality. They are obsessively looking for ways to control the uncontrollable. They are trying to turn themselves into people who are invulnerable to hurt, perhaps…

Whether your relationship is monogamous, polyamorous, or any other configuration, conflict is inevitable. And that’s ok!

“When we talk about trauma, we are often referencing momentous events. Wars, assaults, and horrifying accidents are examples of what we might call Big "T" trauma.”