(Content warning: child sexual abuse. Only read if your inner children feel safe to do so ❤️. If you need immediate support, please reach out to the Rape, Abuse, and Incest National Network- RAINN- today) Healing Our Inner Children After Childhood Sexual Abuse The...
Posts About: Parts Work
Self Care Outside of the Therapy Room
As a therapist I find that I am always talking about self care. But what does that ubiquitous term even mean?? A helpful place to start is by understanding the difference between self comfort and self care, and on this cold weekend in the Northeast I thought it was...
How an EMDR Trauma Therapist and IFS coach are surviving these times
Coping Strategies from a EMDR Trauma Therapist & IFS Coach Our hearts have been heavy- and the heaviness just seems to keep compounding. Here are the things we are doing as an EMDR Trauma Therapist and IFS coach to stay well in these times, so as people with a...
Tom’s new IFS and ADHD Coaching Website!
Happy New Year! It's been a goal of ours for a while to get Tom's new IFS and ADHD Coaching website out into the world, and January seemed like a great time to finally do it. Visit the new website to hear about Tom's passion for parts work (IFS) and neurodivergence,...
My perimenopausal HRT journey so far
Perimenopause and CPTSD I posted recently in my Instagram stories (@teawithatraumatherapist) about Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) for perimenopause, and 33% of respondents said they didn't know know about it. (Another 33% said they take it, and the last 33% said...
Ketamine Assisted Therapy Update
Our Experience with Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy We get asked a lot about our experiences with Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP), and it’s been a long time since we updated, so here’s an update: For those who are new here...Tom did IV Ketamine treatment through...
Processing Stranger Things…and EMDR Therapy
Trauma Processing with EMDR Therapy Season 4 of Stranger Things was my favorite because of all the trauma processing themes. Who can forget those brave kids, choosing to enter The Upside Down? More than one client has compared doing EMDR Trauma Therapy to going into...
Upcoming Trauma Sensitive Yoga Group
As the winter months settle in, many of us feel the natural pull to slow down, soften, and come back home to ourselves. This season can be a beautiful opportunity to reconnect with our bodies—at a pace that feels safe, grounding, and supportive. I’m offering...
Tom’s podcast episode about IFS Coaching and ADHD is here!
Listen to Tom share about his parts through the lens of IFS and ADHD! Tom was interviewed about his experiences with ADHD, both personally and professionally, by Lisa at the Illuminated Recovery Podcast . Listen in to hear about Tom's journey with an ADHD diagnosis...
August Means Abundance- Learning to Find Love in Loss
Content warning: Pregnancy loss, parent loss, grief There was the first time, the August when the doctors told me at 22 weeks that I was going to have a miscarriage but I didn’t believe them. So all through the hot sticky days of August, I took my prenatal vitamins...