Hi, I'm Ted. I'm a trauma therapist. I have completed intensive trainings in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Prolonged Exposure (PE), and Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT). These are the best researched and most effective trauma treatments that are available today. I maintain certification in EMDR through the EMDR International Association, and in PE through the Center for the Treatment and Study of Anxiety at Penn.
I also recognize that experiencing and working through trauma is hard. Trauma leads to increased anxiety and depression, panic attacks, hypervigilance, self-blame, self-doubt, and a host of other difficult emotional experiences. Often with my clients we are doing a mix of present-focused counseling - with work on mindfulness, self-compassion, and strategies to slow down to engage with life more smoothly - in addition to deep trauma work. Having the flexibility to shift between dealing with the challenges that came up this week and processing the emotions that have come up for a lifetime is a necessary skill that I lean into all the time.
I want to help you learn to feel more relaxed and present in your body. I want to help you learn to sit with, and to let go of the pain that you've been carrying. It's a journey that we'll walk together, at your pace, one session, one memory, one experience at a time.
