Healing Starts with Understanding
Trauma, Anxiety & Relationship Insights from a Missouri Therapist

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This blog is where I share tools, insights, and therapeutic guidance to help you understand trauma, anxiety, attachment wounds, relationship patterns, and the healing process.

All content is written by a licensed therapist providing online trauma therapy and couples counseling throughout Missouri — including Springfield, Kansas City, St. Louis, and surrounding areas.

Whether you’re exploring EMDR, wanting to understand your relationship triggers, or looking for support between sessions, you’ll find gentle, research-backed guidance here.

When you know better, but still struggle to be kind to yourself.
Anxiety and Stress, trauma and attachment, trauma and anxiety, self-esteem Mattracea Wendleton Anxiety and Stress, trauma and attachment, trauma and anxiety, self-esteem Mattracea Wendleton

When you know better, but still struggle to be kind to yourself.

Struggling with self-criticism, guilt, or anxiety after hard moments? Learn why self-compassion is so difficult and how to respond with kindness instead of shame.

We all have moments when we don’t show up as our best self — and guilt quickly follows. This post explores why self-criticism takes over, how anxiety and overwhelm fuel it, and how self-compassion can help you respond differently on hard days.

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Serving clients online throughout Missouri — trauma therapy, EMDR, anxiety counseling, and couples therapy.

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