In the work I do, I often times help clients identify their “attachment style.” We do this to look at how an individual’s attachment style may be an assess or a stressor in relationships, in meeting goals, and in contributing to a sense of “stuckness.” There are 4 types of attachment styles. Often our attachment style depends on the situation we are in, the realtionship we are in. But generally, we tend to struggle with the same issues across most situations and relationships. How we respond to conflict, our ability to communicate our needs and wants, and what we expect from others can be affected by our attachment styles. Those…

Maybe you’ve heard about EMDR, or you’ve read in my website where I’ve referenced it. So, you may want to know what it is, and why I use it at times. First EMDR in an acronym for Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing.  First of all, Eye movement refers to “bilateral stimulation” or “dual attention stimuation (DAS)”. This means I wave a finger or pointer at you, and you follow it with your eyes from left to right (or up to down, or even diagonally.) Or, we can use an auditory source with headphones (I ask you to bring your own in these days of COVID awareness) where you hear a…

I teach “coping” skills to nearly all my clients because… let’s be real, we all probably need to have better tools to handle stressors. Those stressors can include Atlanta traffic (come on how many of you have lost it in traffic?), interactions with significant others and children (little ones or grown ones,) work issues, and so much more. The coping skills I teach may also be called mindfulness skills. I don’t teach meditation skills, but I do teach skills like: counting all the rectangles or red items in a room feeling the ground push up against your feet 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 – notice 5 things you can see,…