If you’ve been considering EMDR therapy, you may be wondering what actually happens during a session. How do you choose which memories to work on? Do you have to describe everything that happened? What are you supposed to think about while your eyes are following the ball across the screen? EMDR, or Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, is an evidence-based treatment for PTSD. It uses a structured process to work with traumatic memories, the emotions and physical sensations connected...

Trauma can look very different from one person to another. For some people, there is a specific event they can point to and say, “Things changed after that.” For others, there may be years of experiences that shaped how they feel about themselves, how safe they feel with other people, or what they expect from relationships. This can help us begin to understand the difference between post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and complex PTSD (C-PTSD). There are also difficult and painful...

Generational trauma, an intricate tapestry woven through familial histories, has profound effects on individuals and communities. In this...