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A few years ago, I stumbled upon a poem by Mary Oliver entitled “The Uses of Sorrow”: Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a [...]

Years of abuse and neglect made it difficult to inhabit my own body. Over time, I learned that my body was not a safe place to reside. Rather than serving as an instrument of play, pleasure, and [...]

During hard times, people often take comfort in the idea that someone else has also been through what they’re going through and made it to the other side stronger and with a deeper understanding [...]

The Wizard of Oz is one of my all-time favorite movies. The 1939 Hollywood classic captured my imagination as a child. I envisioned myself transported from Kansas to the magical Land of Oz [...]

Individuals benefit from the process (of EMDR) by feeling and understanding what happened to them within the greater context of what occurred. They come to a place of acceptance, where the [...]

May is mental health awareness month, and in that spirit, I thought I would write a blog post of my own. This post is meant, first and foremost, to make everyone aware of my general existence, [...]

In the summer of 2016, I found myself in a really hot and humid room, sitting on my yoga mat, exhausted, sweaty, and quite frankly upset. I had been practicing yoga for two years at the time, but [...]

Some things are hard to put into words. Addiction is one of them. Finding an accurate way to describe and define addiction has even vexed professionals through the years. People can describe [...]

My approach to psychotherapy is based on techniques rooted in positive psychology which utilizes cognitive behavioral methods of therapy to find solutions to increase clients’ happiness and [...]

“I believe in poetry as a way of surviving the emotional chaos, spiritual confusions and traumatic events that come with being alive” — Gregory Orr While I was in graduate school, working my way [...]