Navigating Trauma: How to Build Your Emotional Safe Space
Trauma impacts our lives and affects us in countless ways. You have the power to create your emotional safe space and create healing from within.
The Neuroscience Perspective on Suicidal Thoughts
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.
Neuroscientific Approach to Resilience Overcoming Adversity
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.
Overcoming Resistance to Change A Plan for Thriving
Taking advantage of opportunities for healing and self-empowerment requires change. In this article, Dr. Kate Truitt addresses overcoming resistance to change.
Allyship With the LGBTQIA Community
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.
Dissociation and Defense Rage: Two D’s of Trauma Responses
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.
People Pleasing & Fawning Trauma Response Forfeiting the Self
In this third article Dr. Kate Truitt explores the fourth F of trauma responses—Fawning, also known as people pleasing.
Taming Trauma Survival Responses of Fight Flight and Freeze
In this article, part of a four-part series, Dr. Kate Truitt explores the trauma survival responses of fight, flight, and freeze.
Trauma Labels and Diagnoses: Understanding Trauma and Stress
In this article we will explore trauma labels and diagnoses and how these conditions unfold neurobiologically and show up in our lives.
Neurofeedback: Training for Your Brain
Neurofeedback uses real-time feedback to assess, train and refine your brain’s electrical activity, not only for mental health but also performance enhancement.
Creating Possibilities for Success During the Holidays
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.
GOD Box Gratitude and Wins Exercise: Two Therapeutic Tools to Help Us Live Our Best Lives
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.