Therapy Tools, Real Talk, and Mindful Growth
Practical insights from our therapists to help you navigate trauma, stress, and the journey of becoming more you.
What is Somatic Tracking and How Can It Help?
Somatic tracking is a gentle, mind–body approach that helps you observe physical sensations with curiosity rather than fear. By learning to feel your body safely, many people experience relief from chronic pain, anxiety, and trauma-related symptoms—without pushing or forcing change.
Supporting Loved Ones with Substance Abuse: Stigma, Prevention, and Recovery Strategies
Supporting a loved one through substance abuse recovery can feel overwhelming, emotional, and deeply personal. This article explores how compassion, education, and trauma-informed support can make a meaningful difference—while also honoring the importance of caring for your own mental health.
Why Starting Therapy Feels Hard: Understanding the Barriers & How to Move Past Them
Starting therapy can feel intimidating, especially when stigma, fear, and misinformation get in the way. This blog explores the common reasons people avoid therapy, normalizes these concerns, and offers compassionate insight into how therapy can help reduce barriers and support meaningful healing.
How to Build a Self-Care Routine that Actually Sticks
Struggling to stick with self-care? You’re not alone. This blog explores why self-care feels hard—and how small, supportive steps can help you build a routine that actually lasts.
The Pressure to Be Merry: Understanding Holiday Emotional Stress
The holidays often come with pressure to feel joyful, even when stress, grief, anxiety, or old wounds rise to the surface. This blog explores the hidden emotional challenges many people face during the season and helps normalize whatever you’re feeling—because not every holiday moment has to be merry to be meaningful.
Trauma-Informed Therapy: What It Is, How It Works, and Why It Matters
Learn how working with a trauma-informed therapist can help you rebuild trust, regulate your nervous system, and find lasting healing.
Using EMDR Therapy for Chronic Pain Relief and Illness
Discover how EMDR therapy can help rewire the brain, ease chronic pain, and support emotional and physical healing from trauma by trauma therapist in Winter Park, FL.
Healing Through Communication: Tips for Trauma Survivors to Express Their Needs
Learn how trauma impacts communication and discover tools to express needs, set boundaries, and build stronger relationships.
Healing Through Creative Expression: Why Art, Writing & Imagination Belong in Therapy
Discover how creative expression can support your healing journey. From journaling to collage, tapping into your creative side can help process emotions, build self-compassion, and move through trauma. Written by a Winter Park trauma therapist, this guide explores why creativity belongs in therapy—and how it can help you reconnect with yourself.
Recognizing the Signs of Unresolved Trauma
Many trauma symptoms go unnoticed, yet they can impact your emotions, body, and daily life. Learn the signs of unresolved trauma and how healing is possible.
Considering Therapy? Here’s What to Expect in Your First Session
Starting therapy can feel intimidating, but knowing what to expect can ease the nerves. Learn what to expect in your first therapy session with a trauma therapist in Orlando. Find out how therapy can help you heal, grow, and create a positive path forward. Book a consultation today.
Setting Boundaries: What They Are and How They Build Healthier Relationships
Learn how to set healthy boundaries and protect your energy, especially if you’ve experienced attachment trauma or toxic relationships. Discover how an EMDR therapist in Winter Park can help you overcome barriers to boundary-setting, stop wasting energy on unreciprocated connections, and build healthier, fulfilling relationships.
Understanding Attachment Styles
Attachment styles, formed in childhood, influence how we connect with others throughout our lives. Understanding your attachment style can provide valuable insight into your relationship patterns and emotional responses. In this blog, we explore the four main attachment styles—secure, anxious, avoidant, and disorganized—and how they shape our connections. You'll also learn how healing from attachment wounds is possible through techniques like EMDR, allowing you to create healthier, more fulfilling relationships.
Healing Trauma Through Body Liberation
Body image struggles and trauma often go hand-in-hand. If you're grappling with your relationship with your body and wondering how past trauma may have influenced it—or if you're seeking new ways to heal and achieve body liberation—this blog is for you.
Join Jenelle Coolidge, LMHC, CCPT-II, author of The Body Liberation Journal, and me on this healing journey.
Attachment Trauma: Signs and Long-term Effects
Ever wondered how early relationships shape your adult life? In this blog, I explore attachment trauma, a common theme in my work with trauma. Discover the signs of attachment trauma, how it impacts your relationships, and steps you can take towards healing. Understanding these patterns is key to building healthier, more fulfilling connections. Dive in to learn more and start your journey to recovery.
When Pregnancy Reopens Old Wounds: Understanding and Healing Childhood Trauma
Discover how pregnancy can trigger unresolved childhood trauma and learn how a trauma therapist in Winter Park, Florida, specializing in maternal mental health, can help. Navigate the challenges of pregnancy with insights and support for healing past traumas.
Celebrating Motherhood: Honoring the Strength and Resilience of Mothers
Motherhood: A journey of strength & resilience. Take a moment for self-compassion. You're enough, just as you are.
