Is Your Anxiety Trying to Protect You, and What Is It Really Asking You to Notice in Your Relationships?
This blog post explores the underlying purpose of relationship anxiety. It outlines the role the nervous system plays in relationships anxiety and also offers tools like mindfulness and Brainspotting and insights to help address anxiety in relationships.
Why Do Some Memories Still Feel Alive in Your Body, and How Can Brainspotting Help You Release Them?
Why does your body remember things in ways your mind doesn’t? How can you alleviate symptoms of anxiety, stress, and trauma that show up in a physical way? How does Brainspotting help heal wounds that create these symptoms? This blog explores these questions and more.
Can Brainspotting Strengthen Relationships—and Help You Feel Truly Seen by Your Partner?
This blog post details how brainspotting can support couples in navigating conflict and building trust. The author discusses her observations as brainspotting practitioner and outlines some of the physiological aspects of using brainspotting in couples’ therapy.
What Makes Brainspotting Different from Other Therapies, and How Can It Help You Heal Faster?
This blog post describes what Brainspotting is and how it can be effective at treating anxiety, trauma, and other mental health challenges through a somatic approach.
How to Feel Close Again: Rebuilding Connection After Disconnection
This blog explores how to repair a relationship when partners have drifted apart. It draws on strategies from the Gottman Institute, Somatics, and Holistic Couples Therapy.
How to Stay Regulated When Your Partner Shuts Down
Learning to recognize conflict patterns and how to stay regulated in these moments can transform conflict into an opportunity for deeper safety and connection.
What to Do When Parts of You Pull Away During Conflict
This post discusses the different responses to conflict as related to parts work/ protector parts. It also offers tools for how to work with these parts and navigate conflict in a healthier way.
Relationship Anxiety or Something Deeper? Understanding Your Emotional Triggers
This blog post outlines where relationship anxiety originates by looking at attachment theory, somatics, and parts work. It also explores the many different tools that can be used to help heal relational anxiety such as brainspotting, breathwork, and therapy.
When Once a Week Isn't Enough: The Power of Couples Intensives
This post explores the structure and benefit of intensive therapy for couples facing challenges. It details what a Couple’s Intensive is and how it might benefit couples with limited time available to them.
ADHD in Relationships: What Most Therapists Don't Tell You
This blog outlines ways that ADHD can impact relationships. It also explores the strengths and challenges that come along ADHD in relationships. It provides education and tools for helping individuals overcome challenges and channel their strengths.
How to Make Behavior Changes That Stick: A Holistic Approach
This blog post explores how we change behavior and build healthy habits in a sustainable way. It includes strategies that utilize, psychology, holistic health, mindfulness, journaling, and connection.
Connecting Through Conflict Using the Gottman Method
Learn tools for navigating relational conflicts and stressful moments. This post draws on The Gottman Method as a primary framework and offers guidance on how to self-regulate and stay grounded amidst conflict.
How To Survive the Holidays as a Highly Sensitive Person
This blog offers advice for navigating the holidays as a Highly Sensitive person. It provides suggestions and strategies to help reduce overwhelm and find enjoyment in the busy holiday season.
Navigating Limerence and Love on the Journey to Secure Attachment
This blog explores how to distinguish limerence from love which can be important for folks with an anxious attachment style or other attachment wounds. This post offers clear guidance on building healthy relationships and recognizing and healing unhealthy patterns.
Decolonizing Therapy and the Ethics of Not Taking Insurance
This post explores the ethics of working outside of the insurance model as a therapist and is informed by the book Decolonizing Therapy by Dr. Jennifer Mullan.
The Chemistry of Connection: How Dopamine and Oxytocin Influence Our Relationship Patterns
Learn how Dopamine and Oxytocin impact our relationships and interact with attachment styles and attachment wounds. Through this post you can gain valuable insight into how and why you may fall into certain patterns in relationships and gain a better understanding of how you can shift these patterns for healthier long-term relationships.