Body Safety: Teaching the "New" Basic Life Skill to Protect Kids from Child Sexual Abuse Parents and caregivers spend years teaching children how to navigate the world safely. We remind them to wear a helmet, buckle their seatbelts, and look both ways before crossing...
Posts About: Trauma
What an Intensive Therapy Retreat Really Looks Like
I often get asked, "What does an Intensive Therapy Retreat really look like?" Great question- I'm so glad you asked! What an Intensive Therapy Retreat Really Looks Like My intensive therapy retreats start with an intake. We take three hours together to really make...
This One’s For the Survivors (of childhood sexual abuse)
(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...
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...
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...
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...
Have you ever wondered about Intensive Trauma Therapy?
Have you ever wondered about Intensive Trauma Therapy? Listen in to a conversation all about it here! Charity had the joy of being interviewed by Lisa from the Illuminated Recovery Podcast about what Intensive Trauma Therapy is all about! Their conversation covers why...