I never saw myself as someone who needed trauma therapy. I didn’t think I had trauma. Not the kind you hear about in documentaries or see in the news. I...
You walk into the room. It’s quiet. Comfortable, but strange. You’re not sure whether to sit like you’re at a job interview or just flop onto the couch. Your therapist...
If you’re here, it’s probably not because you’re wondering whether to get help. It’s because you’re wondering what kind of help might actually work. That shift—from “Do I need therapy?”...
Early sobriety is weird. No one tells you how lonely it can feel to do the right thing. You’re not drinking. You’re working on yourself. You’re healing. And somehow, that...
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is one of the most quietly powerful tools in trauma-informed mental health therapy. It’s structured, research-backed, and surprisingly gentle—but the breakthroughs you experience in...
I’ve had clients cry during intake. I’ve had clients go silent for full sessions. But the ones I remember most? The ones who show up and immediately tell me therapy...
Sometimes you leave before the end. Not because you didn’t care. Not because you failed. But because it got too hard to stay. Or you got tired of hoping it...
Maybe you just stopped going one day. Maybe you planned to return but never did. Ghosting your IOP program might not have been the plan, but now you’re stuck with...
Some days, I couldn’t explain it—not to friends, not to therapists, not even to myself. I just knew I was tired. Tired in a way that didn’t go away with...
Being in love isn’t supposed to feel like going through the motions. Yet for many partners and spouses of someone struggling with addiction, it quietly turns into just that—surviving the...
