Within our brain, intricate processes and pathways are at play when it comes to suicidal thoughts. By understanding these processes, we can gain valuable insights into prevention and treatment strategies.

Resilience is an incredible skill for overcoming adversity and difficult experiences, and thriving through challenges. It is essential for our mental health and well-being.

Taking advantage of opportunities for healing and self-empowerment requires change. In this article, Dr. Kate Truitt addresses overcoming resistance to change.

In honor of Pride Month, I would like to highlight something we embody in our practice known as “Allyship.” It forms the foundation of our Affirming Therapy.

In this article Dr. Kate Truitt delves into the two D’s of dissociation and defensive rage, which seem like completely different ends of a spectrum but share a common objective.

In this third article Dr. Kate Truitt explores the fourth F of trauma responses—Fawning, also known as people pleasing.

In this article, part of a four-part series, Dr. Kate Truitt explores the trauma survival responses of fight, flight, and freeze.

In this article we will explore trauma labels and diagnoses and how these conditions unfold neurobiologically and show up in our lives.

Neurofeedback uses real-time feedback to assess, train and refine your brain's electrical activity, not only for mental health but also performance enhancement.

For many of us the holidays come with a little dread that these social and family situations might move us, or even forcefully yank us, out of our comfort zones.

This blog article presents the G.O.D. Box and the Gratitude and Wins Exercise. These two tools can help us stop rumination and work toward living our best lives.

Havening Techniques is a combination of the ages-old psychosensory healing power of touch combined with awareness of what is happening in that mind-body connection that traumatizes people.

Is there a scientific explanation for a connection between deep emotional trauma and stress and physical pain and discomfort such as migraines, gastrointestinal disturbance, back pain, and more? The answer is there most definitely is.

In this article we will explore the fourth survival response, Fawn, which can be most easily described as people pleasing.

It is important for us to understand where the deeply painful emotional experiences of shame originate, because in the acknowledgement of their roots we find opportunities for recovery and healing.

Did you know that the experience of anxiety is a part of daily life? Like all of our emotions, it exists to alert us concerns so that we may take action and create change. Generalized anxiety, on the other hand, is just there in the forefront.

Did you know that your brain is hard-wired to look for negative, difficult, or painful things? This is called a “negativity bias,” which means that in your data-processing system, anything negative gets priority attention.

Rejection is difficult for anyone to experience, but some people undergo it with much greater intensity than most others. If that is the case for you, it may be that you are experiencing what is known as rejection sensitive dysphoria (RSD).

Waking up on the wrong side of the bed is a real thing. But we have the power of neuroplasticity on our side. Because of our brains are malleable, we have an opportunity to make changes to our neural connections that can help us experience a good night of restful sleep.

One of the most critical methods for developing a sense of personal agency is learning to be in deep relationship with your emotions.