Tell Me About Therapy

It’s important to recognize that overcoming fears and anxiety is a key step towards building self-confidence. By understanding and addressing the subconscious memories and triggers of your anxiety, you can start to break free from the limits they impose. Remember, the fears you don’t face become your boundaries. Therapy can help you become aware of your choices and empower you to live a life not dictated by fear. For more detailed guidance, give me a call and we’ll discuss how you would like to take the next step to understanding and overcoming your fears and anxiety.

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a tool that can help you redirect emotional traumatic memories into more logic-based memories.

Think about a time when something upsetting or scary happened to you. This kind of experience can stick in your mind and cause recurring feelings like sadness, anxiety, or even trouble sleeping. EMDR is a type of therapy designed to help with these issues.

A therapist works with you to discover what memory is the source of the trauma, then has you follow something like a finger with your eyes in quick patterns. This can force the stressful memory to “re-wire” itself so it’s connected to logical parts of the mind, making the memory less upsetting to recall.

“People pleasers” often fall under the umbrella of an anxious attachment style. You may feel frequent and strong fear of abandonment and might fret over the relationships in your life to an unhealthy degree. This can lead to you feeling jealous of people who are also close to your loved ones and terrified your loved ones will leave you. Another sign includes building your self-esteem off of how much your loved one pays attention to you.

There are four main attachment styles that people tend to fall into which dictate how you may navigate relationships. If you’d like to learn more about these styles, read more below. 

Often, when someone keeps making choices that lead to the same, harmful results, this is due to an imbalance rooted in childhood. In order to survive a childhood event, you may have had to develop one of  two protective methods: yin (being more passive, avoiding conflict) or yang (being more confrontational, seeking control). Being in a relationship when you are imbalanced can cause the relationships you seek to be toxic, or for you to become a toxic part of the relationship.

To foster healthier relationships, you need to break the cycle starting with self-awareness. We will work together to help you find the cause of the imbalance, then work towards finding a balance. This can help you make better choices that stop the painful cycle you’ve been stuck on.

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a tool that can help you redirect emotional traumatic memories into more logic-based memories.

Think about a time when something upsetting or scary happened to you. This kind of experience can stick in your mind and cause recurring feelings like sadness, anxiety, or even trouble sleeping. EMDR is a type of therapy designed to help with these issues.

A therapist works with you to discover what memory is the source of the trauma, then has you follow something like a finger with your eyes in quick patterns. This can force the stressful memory to “re-wire” itself so it’s connected to logical parts of the mind, making the memory less upsetting to recall.