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When a child is lost to miscarriage

Miscarriages are devastating to families. In fact, most couples rate multiple miscarriages as more difficult than the death of a parent....

"Why do I keep choosing abusive men?"

I hear this a lot. Women who ask me this often add that they have sabotaged loving relationships with good-hearted men because it didn't...

Understanding intrusive thoughts

For many of the clients I treat, intrusive thoughts are part of their problem. This is especially true in cases of PTSD or...

TV News Video: EMDR Cures PTSD

Here is a great news story illustrating how EMDR can achieve the seemingly impossible--curing PTSD. (Embedded video has been...

Trauma therapy with EMDR is safe and effective (Reason #3): It really works!

EMDR works, and most often in my experience produces a total cure, which is to say, a total absence of all PTSD symptoms, including...

I visited a horse therapy farm!

I think that about the most thrilling thing in the world is to ride a horse at full gallop. I'm no cowboy (my dress in the picture is...

Landmark publication "strongly recommends" EMDR trauma therapy

The International Institute for Traumatic Stress Studies (ISTSS) released a new policy statement for 2019, giving EMDR its strongest...

A "well-resourced" childhood (or not)

What is a well-resourced childhood? It's not only a childhood free from adverse childhood events (ACEs) like drugs in the home, sex...

How does EMDR heal multiple traumas so quickly?

The short answer is momentum. EMDR trauma therapy builds momentum with each memory healed, so that when the "log is kicked," the unstuck...

Childhood trauma, suicide, and FREEDOM!

I recently read something very encouraging by a professor who was the world's top expert in suicide. He wondered, as I often have, why...