Body dysmorphia can lead to serious mental health issues and is often seen alongside conditions like anxiety, OCD, eating disorders, substance use disorders, depression, and trauma. Luckily there are many interventions and treatments available to help improve body dysmorphia such as CBT therapy.

This protocol is intended to help individuals begin their journey to healing childhood wounds, particularly from caregivers or parents who were unable to meet their child's needs.

It is a severe medical complication of the metabolism as it adjusts to eating again. We see this of course in the world of consequences of eating disorders, such as anorexia and bulimia, but also in situations arising from cancer, chemotherapy, chronic alcohol abuse, and other malabsorption disorders.

A feeling of competency and trust in one's own judgment, abilities, performance, and personality. Its being able to walk into a room full of people and to NOT be consumed with thoughts about yourself- are you too much...are you not enough.

It can feel overwhelming to figure out where to start, particularly if someone has endured a lot of trauma throughout their lifespan. "Worst or first" is an easier way to help narrow down what it is that you'd want to work on.

The importance of working through shame is to understand it, see how it impacts your life, and do the work with compassion and patience so as to free yourself from the constraints that shame put onto you.

It's an important point to consider- do you find a therapist in network with your insurance or do you look for a cash pay (i.e.- private pay) therapist? There are pros and cons to both. Find out more.

Virtual therapy is here to stay. And while there are many benefits to online therapy, here are some things to consider.

The work is challenging. It is rewarding. It gives back ten-fold and I am here for it all.

Find out how using a resource spot in brainspotting may be the perfect way for you to get started, especially if you are feeling nervous about starting. Here I explain more about what it means to "go up the mountain" vs "go around the mountain".

What is a treatment team and why is it so important for recovery of an eating disorder? Find out here!

The brain-body connection is so much more complex than we may ever know. Find out how to tap in to your brain-body connection as a way to better understand your feelings and emotions.

I call them "sister therapies" because they work so similarly in how effective they are at processing trauma. Yet, the way in which both of these treatments is administered feels very different in experience.

here is a lot of groundwork and getting to know one another before starting on the hard stuff. Tune in to see what to expect when starting therapy with a trauma therapist.

Eating disorders impact every nation and country, every socioeconomic demographic, gender, and age. Over the past 15 years or so we are also seeing a significant widening of age span with development of eating disorders, as young as 5 years old!

In reality, every single one of us has experienced trauma. In this video I describe "Big T" and "little t" traumas, and how they impact us differently.

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