Domestic violence is a pattern of abusive behaviors that adults and adolescents use to control their intimate or dating partners. It can include physical, sexual, and emotional abuse and other controlling behaviors.
Category: Trauma Treatment
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CODEPENDENCY – WHAT IS IT? WHAT TO DO?
Codependency is a circular relationship in which one person needs the other person, who in turn, needs to be needed. The codependent person, known as ‘the giver,’ feels worthless unless they are needed by — and making sacrifices for — the enabler, otherwise known as ‘the taker.It involves the desire to...
DIFFICULT TIMES
Now more than ever, we are all facing major challenges. Life is full of many aspects that need to be resolved as we go along.
PANDEMIC TRAUMA: COVID-19 IMPACT AND WHAT TO DO
Psychological Trauma is defined as a direct threat to one’s life, serious physical injury, sexual violence, and/or witnessing an unexpected death, immediate threat to life, or physical injury to another person. Psychological trauma is common, with estimates of up to 60-85% of people having experienced a trauma within their lifetime....
Preventing and Dealing With Anxiety
Anxiety can be overwhelming! Either it being constant or if experiencing under certain circumstances. Anxiety is normally related to uncertainty, stress, or we can be genetically predisposed.
What is a Traumatic Event? Have I been Traumatized?
First of all, any experience is subjective, meaning that how it is perceived by each of us is what matters. A trauma is any event that can affect in a physical, emotional, spiritual, or psychological way.
Why Hypnosis, it’s actually cool!
The big “H” word… yes, Hypnosis. Hypnosis has almost a magical connotation and has been portrayed in movies and in stage hypnosis to be what it is not. First, realize that in stage hypnosis, the volunteers have compliance, peer pressure, and other factors working in favor of volunteers acting “silly”.
Panic Attacks “I’m desperate!”
Did you ever feel like if all of a sudden, out of nowhere, you’re dying? Do you suddenly feel overtaken and overwhelmed by multiple, simultaneous extreme sensations (heart beating, dizziness, fainting, Feeling like you’re having a heart attack, tingling fingers or arms, numbness, chest pressure, etc.)?
Why the need for therapy?
“Anyone can learn on their own”….”I can figure it out on my own, I always have”… These are common statements and thoughts that people express in questioning why the need for therapy. The reality is that, yes, we can all figure it out. The question is how fast and how...