Healing Selves Therapeutics, PLLC

03/05/2026

DID Awareness Day

Today we recognize Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) Awareness Day—a time to increase understanding, reduce stigma, and honor the resilience of people living with dissociative systems.

DID is a trauma-based condition that develops as a powerful survival response to overwhelming experiences, most often in early life. For many individuals, dissociation allowed them to endure what once felt impossible. Healing is not about “eliminating parts,” but about building safety, cooperation, and compassionate connection within the system.

At Healing Selves Therapeutics, PLLC, we believe:
🟦 Dissociation is a protective adaptation
🟦 All parts deserve respect and understanding
🟦 Healing happens through safety, collaboration, and empowerment

Through trauma-informed approaches such as EMDR, parts-informed therapy, and stabilization resourcing, we support individuals and systems on their path toward integration, cooperation, and wholeness.

On this DID Awareness Day, we stand with dissociative systems everywhere. Your experiences are real. Your resilience is extraordinary. And healing is possible.

💙 Healing Selves Therapeutics, PLLC
Trauma-informed therapy for complex trauma and dissociation
“Therapy is Cool!”

02/12/2026

New Blog! Reflections on Healing Together 2026 - our experience with mom!
https://www.healingselvestherapeuticspllc.com/post/when-healing-is-witnessed-a-journey-to-the-healing-together-conference

02/05/2026

It’s that time of year again!!!!! We would appreciate your nomination!

Official 2026 Community Voting Awards Platform for Fayetteville, NC. Where the community votes for their favorites every year.

01/19/2026

At our core, trauma and dissociation specialized practice is about giving voice back to what was silenced — pain, parts, stories, identities, and truths that were never safe to speak before.

Today, on this National Day of Service, we’re reminded that healing doesn’t happen in isolation. It happens in community and connection, in action, and in choosing—again and again—to show up for what matters.

✨ Service can look like:
• Advocating for human rights and mental health access
• Supporting marginalized and underserved communities
• Volunteering locally or donating to organizations doing the work
• Checking in on someone who may be struggling
• Using your voice when silence feels easier

For those of us living with trauma, speaking up can feel risky. And yet, every small act of courage, connection, and care matters. Collective healing is built through collective action.

Today, we invite you to do one thing — big or small — in service of compassion, justice, and healing. Because caring is not passive. Healing is not neutral. And your voice matters.

🩵 Therapy is Cool.
🩵 Community care is powerful.
🩵 And service is one of the ways we keep hope alive.

01/14/2026

✨ Therapy is Cool! And so is Healing Together!✨
At Healing Selves Therapeutics, PLLC, we believe healing happens in connection—and that’s why we’re excited to share the Healing Together Conference hosted by An Infinite Mind.
This trauma-informed, community-centered conference brings together lived experience, clinicians, advocates, and allies to learn, connect, and remind one another that we heal better together.
🧠 Compassion-rooted
🤝 Connection-focused
🌱 Community-powered
👉 Register here:
https://aninfinitemind.regfox.com/healing-together-2026

01/08/2026

Let's Light Up the Jive Hive!
Join us for Open Mic Night, brought you by Healing Selves Therapeutics and Grady Crumpler on Friday February 6th at 8:30pm, in Room 1!

Come share your poetry, art, music, dance. Sign up will be at the Healing Selves table when you arrive.

We will have available for your use an acoustic guitar, electric guitar, and a djembe. We will also have access to the PA system and mics. Please feel free to bring your own instruments as well!

Unfortunately due to respect for confidentiality, this will not be live streamed or recorded.

01/07/2026

New blog! But also a content advisory if you're planning to watch the show for reference. The blog is centered around the outcomes from working as a team (or plural system). Please take care of yourself if you choose to watch the actual show. SEAL Team on Paramount, includes combat, trauma, moral injury, and mental health challenges in true to life fashions. Please use discretion, especially for those sensitive to discussions of violence, PTSD, or military-related stress.

By Heather (LS) Scarboro LCMHC-QS, LCAS, NCCPop culture doesn’t always do justice to complex inner experiences—but every now and then, we find meaningful parallels in unexpected places. Fans of the television series SEAL Team know it as a show about elite Navy operators navigating missions, trau...

01/02/2026

✨ Therapy is Cool! And so is Healing Together!✨

At Healing Selves Therapeutics, PLLC, we believe healing happens in connection—and that’s why we’re excited to share the Healing Together Conference hosted by An Infinite Mind.

This trauma-informed, community-centered conference brings together lived experience, clinicians, advocates, and allies to learn, connect, and remind one another that we heal better together.

🧠 Compassion-rooted
🤝 Connection-focused
🌱 Community-powered

👉 Register here:
https://aninfinitemind.regfox.com/healing-together-2026

12/10/2025

🌍 Human Rights Day 🤝💙

Today on Human Rights Day, we honor the truth that dignity, safety, and belonging are universal rights — not privileges. For many, especially those living at the intersections of marginalized identities, these rights are still fought for daily.
We stand firmly with survivors, with LGBTQ+ communities, with BIPOC individuals, and with all people whose humanity has been ignored, questioned, or harmed by systems of oppression. Your identity, your story, and your healing matter.

As a trauma-focused, LGBTQ-allied, and culturally responsive practice, we reaffirm our commitment to:

✨ Providing affirming, identity-centered mental health care
✨ Supporting and uplifting BIPOC clients whose resilience is often demanded, not acknowledged
✨ Protecting safe, inclusive therapeutic spaces for all bodies, genders, cultures, and lived experiences
✨ Centering survivor autonomy, agency, and voice
✨ Challenging racism, homophobia, transphobia, ableism, and all forms of systemic harm
✨ Advocating for a world where safety, identity, and self-expression are respected — never debated

Healing is a human right.
Safety is a human right.
Cultural identity is a human right.
Authenticity is a human right.
Love is a human right.

Today and every day, we walk alongside you — honoring your truth, protecting your dignity, and supporting your healing journey with compassion and respect. 💛🏳️‍🌈✊🏽

12/08/2025

Pop culture helps us understand the world around us. Here's a new blog about how 90's HipHop helped create the HST of today. Take away: adversity can be an opportunity.

By Heather (LS) Scarboro LCMHC-QS, LCAS, NCC"Juicy" by The Notorious B.I.G. https://youtu.be/ro8AaGfAI2c?si=hUyt33M3aGJIzgSiThere are songs that fade in and out of cultural memory, and then there are songs that become cultural memory. “Juicy” by The Notorious B.I.G. is one of those anthems—an ...

12/03/2025

This is a follow up to the original EMDR phase 2, working with dissociative systems. It doesn't have to be 100% percent or even close to perfect communication to still, "go with that."

By Heather (LS) Scarboro LCMHC-QS, LCAS, NCCDissociative Identity Disorder (DID) presents unique clinical needs, especially as therapists prepare clients for trauma reprocessing within EMDR. Phase 2—Preparation and Stabilization—is where the foundation of safety, internal cooperation, and dual a...

09/10/2025

Today is World Su***de Prevention Day.
We know that suicidal thoughts often grow out of deep pain, trauma, and feelings of isolation. We also know that healing is possible, connection matters, and no one has to carry their struggles alone.

This year’s theme, “Creating Hope Through Action,” reminds us that every small step — reaching out to a friend, checking in with a loved one, or seeking support from a professional — can make a difference.

If you are struggling, please know: your life matters, your story matters, and you are not alone. 🩵

📞 If you or someone you love is in crisis, dial 988 (Su***de & Crisis Lifeline) for immediate support.

Together, we can build a world where hope feels possible. 🌱

***dePreventionDay