Tracie Morrison Salmon, LPC, PA

12/08/2025

08/27/2025

Welcome to my private practice!

11/07/2023

I have office space to lease up to 4 days per week. Let me know if you are interested and I will give you the details.

10/20/2022

Throwback of me around 1973!! The fun of play and risk as a child is so important even as an adult! We need safety, security, certainty... but we also
need adventure, play, mystery,
risk… it's what helps us feel alive, passionate, hopeful…!!!

09/19/2022

One of our rituals when flying somewhere is to play a few cards of Esther Perel’s new game, “Where Should We Begin?”
It helps us learn new things about each other we might not think to ask! Fun, endearing, informative, sexy, creative…
Great change of pace! It sets a good mood for your vacation, or for your week. You will learn a lot about your partner!

03/21/2022

This is a 15 sec video introducing myself and my over 30 years of practicing to those looking for a therapist. Feel free to contact me with any questions! Call, text, email, or website.
www.traciesalmon.com
Psychologytoday.com/Traciesalmon

06/30/2021

MINDSET TWEAKS:
Finding out more about “Who am I?” is a common quest in my office. “I don’t even know where to start?” “Who am I?” “How do I figure this out?” “I am too afraid to try!” One of my favorite authors, Julia Kristina, loves to use the word EXPERIMENT. Here are a few mindset shifts that might help you make some progress.

1. Experiment. Goals, dreams, ideas, things you want to do or try, think of them all as experiments. People don’t want to try because they are afraid to fail. You are either going to win or you are going to learn if you try something new or put yourself out there. Failure is a neutral event, we didn’t get what we wanted or what we expected. It requires a human brain to make people feel it’s a failure. All failure is, is we didn’t get what we wanted or expected. Failure is truly about what we are going to make it mean about ourselves. It is not the uncertainty you fear it’s the result that you don’t want, that you fear. It’s what you’re going to make that result mean about you, ie. I’m not good enough, I’m not capable enough, I’m not smart enough…
2. Cleanup your thoughts about yourself! Begin to trust yourself instead of kick yourself when you’re down. Cut through the shame and self blame. Give yourself Grace. You are enough!
3. It’s not the outcome we are afraid of, it’s what we are going to make it mean about ourselves. It’s not even what you think people are going to think about you, it’s what you are going to think about you. How many things do we not do, that we stop ourselves from doing, because we are worried about what people might think. But again, it’s not about what people are going to think, it’s about what you are going to make it mean about you. People are going to have thoughts about us. It is MY job to decide what I’m going to make that mean about me. My job is not to control other people’s thoughts or words, but to get strong in believing in myself and trusting myself. I need to be able to stand firm in who I am. I need to deal with my own insecurities instead of try to control what other people think about me.

So try something new! Experiment! Stop worrying about failure and instead have fun figuring you out!!!

10/02/2020

Instead of focusing on losing weight, let’s focus on ATTAINING and GAINING: health, muscle, happiness, passion, purpose, flexibility, adaptability, tone, endurance, empathy, forgiveness, confidence...
The GAINS/GROWTH mindset far surpasses the mindset of losing and restricting! Try it!!😄💪🏻

08/25/2020

DON’T ALWAYS LISTEN TO YOUR FEELINGS:
Feelings are important, but they don’t always have our best interest, and there are times to ignore them.
Ex: I dont feel like getting off the couch and exercising (and then you’re mad at yourself later)
or
I feel like eating that entire bag of cookies (and then you feel worse later)

DON’T ALWAYS LISTEN TO YOUR FEELINGS:
Think about these things to help!!
1. What I want now vs what do I want most!
2. If I want to grow and stretch, I need to get out of my comfort zone (get out of the familiar)
3. What is in my best interest (not just what makes me feel happy or good)?
4. What Is best for us is not always what feels the best. @ Dallas, Texas

08/10/2020

We all have “triggers” in our lives and usually they are attached to events from our past that felt traumatic. A “trigger” is a disproportionate response to a given stimuli. An over-reaction when we feel threatened in some way.
It can cause us to move into fight or flight!
Here are a few things we can do to help deal with instead of over-react, or self-medicate through destructive behaviors.

WHEN YOU FEEL TRIGGERED:
Use the STORM acronym:
Stop and take a big breath

Tune into your feelings

Observe your thoughts

RE-frame your thoughts and the story you put on the event

Move into self compassion

These strategies can help you handle your intense feelings and emotions in a more positive way.

We also want to PULL THE TRIGGER on new behaviors and choices that will help free us!!