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There is a lot more to EMDR than just eye movements or bilateral stimulation. This article walks you through the 8-phase standard protocol that is the foundation of EMDR therapy.
Therapy can sometimes feel like this mysterious and perhaps scare endeavor, especially if you’ve never been in it before or if you are feeling afraid of what might come up! Even as a therapist, sometimes it's hard to describe. Here, I’m going to answer some common questions Q&A style that I get about working with a therapist.
Once you’ve got a therapist on the phone, what questions do you ask the therapist (and yourself) to get to the first session? This article walks through recommendations for that first phone consultation with a prospective psychotherapist .
Finding a therapist isn’t easy, especially in an area like Santa Monica with so many to choose from. This article offers some practical suggestions for your quest. Don’t let the abundance of choices deter you from getting into therapy!
(Narrated by Richard Attenborough): The New Years Resolution dance of hope has been practiced since the dawn of time and lasts approximately 2.27 months.
In the famous words misattributed to Albert Einstein: “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results”.
Ready to find some sanity? Read on...
Culturally, we are connected in our shared struggle over never quite being thin enough or good enough when it comes to food and our bodies, because the media and our early messages from our families tell us so.
So as this group of women connected on this woman’s weight for almost an hour, I wondered to myself, “what would they be talking about if not for her weight and food? “
Radically transforming your relationship to your food and body requires a paradigm shift and paradigm shifts don’t just grow on trees (because if they did, everyone would be eating according to intuition, pleasure, hunger and fullness, accepting their body’s natural shapes, and feeling freedom and love for their bodies).
Read on...