
Community Trauma of Mass Shootings
I woke up this morning to the news that a mass shooting occurred in Dayton, Ohio, about 90 miles west of my home. This was
I woke up this morning to the news that a mass shooting occurred in Dayton, Ohio, about 90 miles west of my home. This was
When I first met the person who would become one of my spiritual teachers, he told me that I wasn’t ready. I asked him a
As a certified therapist in both Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), many times therapists give me the “huh”
I was sitting in front of a client one afternoon as she talked to me about the rape she had experienced a few months ago.
When EMDR clinicians learn that one of my specialties is addiction, I usually get asked, “Which protocol do you use? FSAP? DeTUR?” I’m often met
“Jamie, when we first met, you brought up all of my popular girl issues and I didn’t know how to act around you.” My mouth
As an EMDR educator, people are constantly asking me what I think of the latest trend in EMDR therapy. In the last year or so,
One of the great blessings of my life is to have a Jewish mother and a Jewish family in Squirrel Hill. When I heard the
“I have to do what?!?” My gut squelched as I voiced my protest in the form of this question. For years I yearned to take