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Providing the Valley with quality mental health care, our clinicians have years of combined experien

11/14/2025

❤️‍🩹 Healing doesn’t always look like joy or peace. Sometimes it looks like:

~Noticing your triggers before you react.

~Setting boundaries, even when it feels scary.

~Letting yourself rest without guilt.

~Questioning old patterns.

~Feeling emotions you used to numb.

If you’re doing any of these, you’re healing… even if it doesn’t feel like it 🙏🏼

11/07/2025

⚙️ In IFS (internal family systems) we come to understand that we’re made up of many different inner parts.

🧯Some try to manage and keep life under control. Others rush in like firefighters when pain feels too big. And some carry the deepest wounds and longings the exiles. And underneath it all is your Self calm, compassionate, and unshakably whole.

😟You don’t just think these parts. You feel them in your body. A tight jaw or stiff shoulders might be a manager. A racing heart or restless energy could be a firefighter. A heavy chest or sinking belly often belongs to an exile. None of these parts are mistakes. They’re protective strategies your system created to help you survive.

❤️‍🩹Healing doesn’t mean getting rid of them. It means listening to them, welcoming them, and letting your Self gently lead the way. Each of us carries a unique constellation of parts and that’s what makes us beautifully human.

11/04/2025

😖We don’t always recognize that we have been triggered until later, when the feelings have subsided a bit.

However, an intense emotional reaction to a situation, may at times, be an indicator of an emotional or trauma trigger, including adverse childhood experiences (ACEs).

🧑‍🧑‍🧒Triggers may be activated by relatives, friends, co-workers, news stories, current events, and many other situations.

Above are the steps to working through a trigger in a healthy sustainable way ⬆️⬆️⬆️
1. Notice how your body reacts
2. Breathe
3. Name the sensation
4. Name the emotion
5. Have compassion
6. Meet your needs

10/31/2025

From our team to you, have a happy and safe Halloween 🎃

10/28/2025

📢 TVTW owners Dr. Maytubby and Dr. Underwood attended the 2025 Innovations in Psychotherapy Conference to stay up to date with the most advanced trauma approaches and to ensure that our patients are being provided with the best possible care.

🗣️A few of the keynote speakers included:
🧠Dr. John Gottman: Clinical Psychologist & Co-founder of the Gottman Institute with which he works with his wife to help couples strengthen their relationships through workshops and therapy referrals.
🧠Dr. Laura Parnell: a clinical psychologist and director of the Parnell Institute for Attachment-Focused EMDR. She is one of the world’s leading experts on Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), she is the originator of the EMDR-related therapies Attachment-Focused EMDR and Resource Tapping.
🧠Dr. Ramani Durvasula: an American clinical psychologist, retired professor of psychology, media expert, and author. She has lectured and trained therapists around the world on best practices on working with clients experiencing narcissistic abuse.

10/24/2025

☕️ Understanding your partner’s individual emotional needs through open communication is key, as different people are filled by different actions like acts of service, words of affirmation, or quality time.

🗣️ Being present for your partner means fully engaging with them emotionally and mentally, rather than being distracted.

➡️ Ways to be more present:
-Active Listening
-Validating Feelings
-Being Mindful of Nonverbal Cues
-Limiting Distractions
-Emotionally Connected
-Plan Intentional Time

10/21/2025

➡️ Shifting from shame to gratitude involves reframing negative self-evaluations by focusing on your strengths, lessons learned, and practicing specific exercises to cultivate thankfulness.

Practical Strategies to make the shift: ➡️➡️➡️

📝Journaling: Regularly write down things you are grateful for, no matter how small. This helps train your brain to look for the positive.
🧘🏻Mindfulness and meditation: Practice mindfulness to ease feelings of shame and try loving-kindness meditation to cultivate a sense of compassion for yourself and others.
💭Thought replacement: When a shameful thought appears, reframe it. For example, instead of thinking “I feel so guilty that I got promoted instead of my friend,” try “I am grateful I got the job promotion I wanted, and I am sorry my friend did not,
🤗Self-appreciation: Stand in front of a mirror and state things you appreciate about yourself, such as past achievements or present efforts. You can also compliment yourself with specific virtues.
❤️Express gratitude to others: Tell a coworker or friend something you appreciate about them, or write a gratitude letter. This can strengthen your own feelings of gratitude and contentment.

10/17/2025

🥵 Work stress? Environmental Stress? School Stress? Upcoming Holiday stress?

🧘🏻Let’s prevent Burnout with these 3 Micro-Breaks:
1. Eye & Stretch Break
2. Breath Reset
4. Sensory Pause
-These methods are not meant to take a lot of time!
-Smaller pauses during the day help prevent burnout, restore focus, & reduce stress
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What healthy ways do you find your inner peace during moments of stress? 🤔

Leave a comment below, we’d love to hear what methods work best for you!
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10/14/2025

🌧️ Window of Tolerance ⛈️
This term is characterized by a sense of groundedness, flexibility, openness, curiosity, presence, an ability to be emotionally regulated, and a capacity to tolerate life’s stressors….

☀️When we’re within our window, we have access to our prefrontal cortex and executive functioning skills: organizing, planning, and prioritizing complex tasksstarting actions and projects and staying focused on them to completion; regulating emotions and practicing self-control.

🌧️ When we are outside the Window of Tolerance, we lose access to our prefrontal cortex and executive skills and may default to taking panicked, reckless action or no action at all. We may be prone to self-sabotaging behaviors, gravitating toward patterns and choices that erode and undermine our relationship with ourselves, others, and the world.

🪟We each have a unique and distinct window depending on: our personal histories and whether or not we came from childhood trauma backgrounds, our temperaments, our social supports, our physiology, etc. NO two windows will look exactly the same, which means expanding our window will look different…

10/08/2025

🔄 The cycle of narcissistic abuse commences with the Idealization phase, then progresses to Devaluation, which is followed by the Discard phase and the Hoover stage.

It is a repetitive pattern used by the perpetrator to manipulate & exploit the victim for personal gain.

🩺 The health impact of narcissistic abuse can be profound. It can lead to severe physical, emotional, and psychological consequences such as: chronic stress, anxiety, and depression, disrupted sleep patterns, weakened immune function, and increased vulnerability to illnesses.

❤️‍🩹 The first step towards breaking free involves seeking support from trusted individuals, such as friends, family, or professionals, who can provide emotional guidance, practical assistance, and a safe space to share your experience. With time, self-care, and healing, survivors can gradually rebuild their self-esteem, set boundaries, and create a new life free from the dysfunction of these harmful relationships.

10/06/2025

❤️‍🩹 Healing has a way of stirring up waves of grief - showing us the things we lost, or never got, along the way.

☁️It can be one of the hardest parts of the process, but it’s also a sign that you’re growing, noticing, and waking up to yourself in new ways.

⛅️Grief isn’t neat or linear. It can feel brutal at times. But naming what was missing also opens the door to something new - to rebuild, to redefine, to reclaim what’s yours…

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