Teens & college
Starting therapy in your first year of college
Nobody warns you that homesickness and burnout can look identical from the inside. What actually brings first-years in — and what changes when they come.
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Notes from the other chair.
Short pieces on EMDR, trauma, anxiety, and the unglamorous everyday work of healing — written for the people who read a therapist's whole website before they ever send a message.
Coping tools
When your body gets there before you do
Five grounding tools that work because of how the nervous system is built — not because you talked yourself out of the feeling.
EMDR
What an EMDR session actually feels like
Not hypnosis. Not reliving it. A straight account of what happens in the room, minute by minute, from the first session to the first time a memory loses its charge.
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Everything here is general education, not therapy or clinical advice, and reading it doesn't create a therapeutic relationship. If something lands close to home, that's worth saying out loud to someone — a free 15-minute consult is a low-stakes place to start.
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