Healing Starts with Understanding
Trauma, Anxiety & Relationship Insights from a Missouri Therapist
Welcome — I’m glad you’re here.
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.
Are Anxiety & Self-Esteem linked?
Working on healing wounds of self-doubt tends to also decrease anxiety. Why? Because self-doubt tends to increase our anxiety. When we are less certain, less sure of ourselves, we tend to be more anxious. This is where counseling can help. In individual counseling, we work to heal these wounds and help you to reach your potential, which also enhances your self-esteem!
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How Anxiety Presents itself in Every-day Tasks: “Do-er” versus “Avoider”
Anxiety presents itself in various ways. Two ways that are often related to are the anxious “do-er” OR the anxious “avoider”. Also referred to as the overfunctioner and the underfunctioner. These can be seen in day-to-day tasks and can cause some difficulty in well-being, happiness, and overall functioning to name a few. Have questions? Click the work with me button above!
Why You Might Want to Ditch the New Years Resolutions
Today I am sharing with you why you should “ditch the New Years Resolutions” trend. By the end of this post you will have justification as to why you might want to do away with resolutions, and replace them with intentions AND reflections. You will also be provided some prompts to help you with this!
What’s the difference between feeling anxious and feeling scared?
Read about how anxiety feels, what to expect, what anxiety can look like, and learn new ways to cope with anxiety. In this post you will learn more about anxiety coping skills and learn more about anxiety.