When a child is struggling emotionally, the classroom is often the first place it shows up. Difficulty concentrating, conflicts with peers, avoidance of schoolwork, impulsive behavior, or simply that faraway look that tells a teacher something is not right. Academic performance and emotional wellbeing are not separate issues. They are deeply connected, and when we […]
Play therapy is a valuable and important intervention for many children. The opportunity to express themselves symbolically, to work through difficult experiences in the safety of imagination and story, can be genuinely healing, especially for very young children or those who are not yet ready for more direct therapeutic work. But for some children, particularly […]
Trauma has a way of making the past feel permanently present. A smell, a sound, a look on someone’s face, and suddenly the brain and body are back in the middle of something that happened years ago. This is not weakness or overreaction. It is the nervous system doing exactly what it was designed to […]
For much of the history of psychotherapy, trauma treatment focused primarily on helping people understand and talk about their experiences. But decades of neuroscience research have fundamentally changed how we understand trauma. Today, some of the most effective advances in mental health treatment are brain-based trauma interventions rooted in what we now know about how […]
Some experiences are too overwhelming, too deeply felt, or simply too old to be fully reached through talking alone. If you have ever sat in therapy feeling like your words are circling the same territory without your body getting the message, Brainspotting therapy may be the approach you have been looking for. What Is Brainspotting […]