Understanding Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART): A Powerful Tool for Healing In the world of therapy, different approaches can be used to help individuals process and heal from past trauma, anxiety, and other emotional struggles. One such approach that is gaining increasing recognition is Accelerated Resolution…
By Allison England, AMFT, APCC Imagine you are 8 years old; you are on the playground at your elementary school. You take a quick glance around the blacktop and you notice her… the girl that has been making your life miserable. Your head fills with…
Over the past several years, there have been numerous traumatic events all across the country. From incidents of mass violence to devastating natural disasters, hundreds of thousands of Americans have experienced or witnessed a disastrous or life-threatening event. In addition to tragedies such as these,…
Meditation offers practitioners powerful benefits, yet many people are confused as to what exactly those benefits are. In a nutshell, meditation focuses attention in a deliberate manner, taking you from a state of noisy mental chatter to calm and quiet inner peace. And isn’t that…
Pregnancy can be an emotionally overwhelming experience for just about anybody. But for women with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), it can be downright scary. Sadly, there doesn’t seem to be a lot of information to be found about how PTSD can impact a pregnancy,…
In the United States, one in three women and one in six men will experience some form of sexual abuse in their lifetime, according to the National Sexual Violence Resource Center (NSVRC). When sexual abuse happens, many people don’t know how to cope with the event or…