Jaymie Johnston, Licensed Counselor

07/17/2025

05/24/2025

02/13/2025

So often we can get discouraged but healing is not linear!

02/03/2025

https://www.teenvogue.com/story/how-trans-kids-can-protect-themselves-now-that-trump-is-in-office

From navigating anti-trans laws to protecting your joy.

11/21/2024

Your nervous system is designed to protect you. It’s very intelligent. That’s why diving into healing trauma can be retraumatizing.
Building a felt sense of safety in the body is step 1. And that takes time. The nervous system will let us know when it feels some safety.
Without safety there is no healing. It can’t sustain it.
Your nervous system rules! Ready to befriend it?

10/17/2024

Yesterday was International Pronoun Day

09/10/2024

September is Su***de Prevention Month.

If you are thinking about harming yourself — get immediate crisis support.
Please find someone to talk to because you DO matter 🤍

Call the National Su***de Prevention Lifeline at 800-273-8255 or contact the Crisis Text Line by texting TALK to 741741.

If you are an LGBTQ+ person in need of support, reach 24/7 via text 678-678, chat at
Start Chat, or phone 1-866-488-7386 to a of our crisis counselors.

Dial 988 for crisis emergency situations. 988 instead of 911, 988 can send a mental health trained team for a crisis response.



***dePreventionAndAwareness

09/03/2024

The Hierarchy of Su***de Prevention

08/29/2024

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The goal for any successful therapy is NOT to feel neutral about everything.

You are a human being with REAL emotions, so it's unrealistic to have a goal to just feel okay about everything.

If you're alive, then I can promise you that you will feel stress in your life, so an appropriate goal for therapy is to increase your ability to TOLERATE stress.

This is known as EUSTRESS - the healthy amount of stress that helps you build a resiliency and a tolerance to it over time.

DISTRESS, on the other hand, is the type of stress that has a negative impact on you (i.e., traumatic life experiences) that can make daily stressors more distressing.

Therapies that help heal your nervous system, like EMDR Therapy, help process those traumatic life experiences, increase your ability to tolerate stress, and thus change how your nervous system perceives daily stressors from being distressing to eustress.

Questions about how it works? Then check out The EMDR Therapy Progress Journal which explains how the whole process works!