Are you looking for EMDR, ART, or Body Healing Counseling?
Anxiety
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Find what Fits for YOU
Animo is here to tailor around your goals. I offer several different modalities to walk with you in your healing.
EMDR
Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing Trained: Find out more.
EMDR has had dozens of clinical studies around treating trauma. Before and after EMDR scans of the brain show a change in the reduction of the portion of the flight/fight/freeze/fawn region “lighting up”.
EMDR helps you understand how the shame or negative narrative that you are holding of yourself is stuck in the body, but that can be released to lead to freedom.
Accelerated Resolution Therapy
Advanced Certified in ART: Find out more & an article from PsychCentral
ART uses the same science of the bilateral eye movement you experience during REM cycle, to help address the way the brain stores distress to move it out.
We can discuss if brief therapy of 3-5 sessions, for 90 minutes each, might be all you need to address & resolve a single incident trauma, which has been causing you distress, hyper-vigilance, and fear in the present.
Processing through Boxing
Incorporation of boxing (non-contact) into the therapy room to work through the discomfort of mental and emotional pain in the body. Visit the FAQ page or contact me to learn more.
The anger, anxiety, and tension in the body might be hard to get rid of by just talking about it. We can move to help shift those parts and gain coping tools outside the counseling room.
Support for New & Foster Mothers
Do you feel stuck, lost, or questioning your role as mom? Has post-partum depression & anxiety taken some of the joy or hope out of being a parent that you expected to have? Working through the trauma & pain of miscarriages or anxiety around infertility?
The journey to and in foster care is beautiful and weighty. Secondary trauma from loving on kiddos is real, and to continue to care for them, you need to care for yourself.
We can tackle this with ART. I also use ‘Parts Work’ (IFS) with EMDR or ART to address the childhood patterns that are impacting your parenting in the present and the anxiety or depression from post-partum.
Faith-Based Counseling
I offer Christian Counseling if you desire to bring it into the room. I have lived overseas and gone through cross-cultural & debriefing training that I can incorporate based on your desires.
*No matter what background of religion or spirituality you follow, I am happy to hear how you would like to incorporate it (or not) into our sessions. Don’t hesitate to reach out to ask how this could look in the therapy room.
Debriefing for Overseas Workers
I am trained in MTI’s Essentials in Debriefing program. I spent two years overseas plus work for an international ministry organization for 12+ years.
Credentialed in Disaster Mental Health Counseling course
Pre-Martial
Prepare & Enrich: An evidence-based assessment tool for pre-marital and married couples. Find out more.
Somatic and Trauma Training
Peter Levine’s Somatic Experiencing course
Jennifer Sweeton’s Intensive Trauma Treatment certificate
Seeking Safety: PTSD and Substance Abuse course – Certification.
Questions? Need more information?
Counseling is meant to free you from feeling stuck or in those endless shame cycles so you can know & trust yourself.