Even Here Therapy

10/03/2025

Little life update 💛

07/17/2024

I say this to my clients all the time…

Our relationship with ourselves is the only one we’ll always have.

And, how we treat ourselves is often impacted by what we live through. This is especially true when we lived through trauma in childhood.

07/10/2024

Healing is often a dance between spending time building tolerance for pain and building capacity for joy. We need to be able to watch ourselves encounter our own hurt as well as creating new, positive, repairing moments of safety.

05/30/2024

04/10/2024

Acute Traumatic Stress vs. Post Traumatic Stress vs. Complex Trauma

04/03/2024

All of these themes can contribute to first responders disconnecting from their own experiences.

〰️ If there wasn’t someone supporting your emotions in childhood, or if you were put in the position of taking care of the moods or emotions of adults, then this may have resulted in an over-awareness of external emotions and an under-awareness of internal emotions.

〰️ If you experienced a lack of support or learned that you could not rely on you caregivers, you may have learned to only trust yourself.

〰️ If you weren’t equipped with the tools to handle difficult emotions, you may have learned to try to think / fix / or help your way through difficulty without feeling through it.

03/20/2024

The downside of flipping that switch to off, is that we can’t selectively turn off difficult emotions. We shut off positive emotions too.

Working with a licensed therapist who specializes in trauma can help you to build tolerance, begin rebuilding the connection, and help you process all the pain you may be trying to disconnect from.

If you’re not ready to go to therapy, start by intentionally rebuilding positive associations 💛

03/14/2024

If you’re needing more support to learn how to slow down and get out of that survival mode, reach out.

02/22/2024

This looks different for everyone, because all of our minds and bodies respond differently to stress and trauma.

Working with a trauma-trained therapist individually can help you begin to find ways of increasing safety, and processing those experiences 💛

02/06/2024

Learning to re-connect with ourselves enough to notice when we need support can actually allow us to help more sustainably.

01/25/2024

Flipping the script on ‘what ifs’ 💭