Do Your Politics Impact Your Clinical Effectiveness?
Originally published on the NALGAP-Addiction Professional Blog, August 2016 Nothing makes my stomach turn quite so vigorously as when I see a helping professional make
July 1, 2022
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Category: EMDR Therapy
Creating a Training Oasis in an Online Environment
I recently had a conversation with a dear friend at an in-person training we were both a part of; she in the role of facilitator,
February 8, 2022
An Open Letter to the EMDR Community: Stop Passing Off Your Opinions as Facts
There are many hot button issues in the EMDR community that get discussed in formal consultation, or informally in the online support groups. A shortlist
May 26, 2021
An Open Letter to Embodied Therapists: Stop Saying You Do “Weird” Stuff
Several years ago a workshop attendee came up to me after a continuing education class to pay me a compliment. The attendee relayed to me
March 3, 2021
Mindfulness as “Module 2.5” of the Palette of EMDR Interventions in Addiction (PEIA): Implications for Trauma-Focused Care
“This is not so much an opioid epidemic we are in – it is more a trauma epidemic that people take opiates for.” – My
February 4, 2021
Experimental Theatre, Drama Therapy, and EMDR Therapy: Pathways to the Self
During my time as a student in the drama department at NYU, in between presenting scenes, and performing in plays, I spent a lot of
January 11, 2021
Bulk Flash within Ego State Therapy
The Flash Technique (Manfield, Lovett, Engel, & Manfield, 2017) developed by Dr. Phil Manfield has shown that moving a memory is possible without directly activating
August 26, 2020
Defining the Three Circles of Sexual Recovery
Sexual addiction and recovery can be controversial constructs. Unlike addictions to chemicals or substances, sex and sexuality are intrinsic facets of healthy human life and
April 27, 2020
Revisiting The Four Faces of EMDR: 10 Years Later
I grew up tortured by the tenets of fundamentalist Evangelical Christianity, and in my young adulthood, navigated to conservative communities within Catholicism. While some
April 8, 2020