You may have never heard of EMDR therapy before, or maybe you have heard of it but aren’t sure exactly what it entails. EMDR stands for Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing. It is a type of therapy that involves helping the brain to reprocess trapped memories, typically those related to … [Read more...]
What is DBT and How Can it Help?
Do you frequently feel consumed by strong feelings of sadness, depression, anxiety, fear, or other emotions? Do these feelings consume your days and make it hard to focus on much else? Do you wish you could do something about them? Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, might be the answer you are … [Read more...]
What is ACT and How Can it Help?
What if you could allow yourself to feel whatever it is you are feeling, even if it is negative? Rather than trying to control your emotions, what if you could accept them for what they are? That is the basis for ACT—Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. This type of therapy encourages people to … [Read more...]
Why Do People Self-Harm?
The reasons why someone would harm themselves can be difficult to understand. The idea that someone would choose to cut, burn, or injure themselves in any way can be baffling to most people. There can be a tendency to panic when you learn that someone you love is self-harming. You want to help … [Read more...]