Trauma Therapy in Wellesley

Online in MA & CT

  • Identify present day problems and recent triggers you’d like to work on

  • Build confidence that you can remain in control, feel safe in your body, and trust yourself to navigate daily stressors

  • Identify and honor all parts of you and how each of these parts may be holding onto past trauma

  • Promote a greater sense of wholeness by integrating these parts and their associated memories, emotions and beliefs

  • Improve communication and collaboration to resolve conflict among these parts

  • Establish a framework to safely process traumatic memories that are held by each part through EMDR

  • Explore negative beliefs stemming from trauma that are holding you back

  • Reprocess past memories that have been keeping you stuck in survival mode or in dissociative states

  • Use bilateral stimulation to make past memories feel less insurmountably triggering

  • Identify how you’d prefer to navigate future triggers

How Shared Stories Counseling Supports Complex Trauma & Dissociative Disorders:

Facilitates DES-II and MID-60 assessments to measure presence of dissociation and determine accurate diagnosis

Normalize, validate and educate clients on presence of dissociation, parts, and DID systems

Offer sensory tools for grounding, calm, internal safety and improved mind-body connection

Facilitates the Dissociative Table Technique as part of EMDR’s Phase 2 protocol

Identify and assess presence and function of each part

Support clients as they learn to safely invite each part to have their voices heard

Assist clients in encouraging their parts to communicate and collaborate to reduce internal conflict and promote a greater sense of wholeness

Explore use of EMD and EMDr as appropriate

  • EMDR Therapy is offered as 60, 120 or 180 minute sessions.

    Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is an eight-phase brain based therapy that helps you safely process the beliefs, sensations and emotions rooted in trauma that may be keeping you stuck in survival mode or in a dissociative state.

    Generally, EMDR can bring new insights, clarity and adaptive beliefs to help you heal deeply and feel safe again for those impacted by trauma or phobias.

    For those with dissociative disorders including DID, EMDR can promote the internal safety needed to work towards a more integrated understanding of the self as a whole.

    Shared Stories Counseling offers EMDR for adults who are impacted by:

    • Childhood Trauma:

      • Attachment Wounds

      • Physical, Sexual or Emotional Abuse

    • Relational Trauma:

      • Infidelity, Betrayal or Separation

      • Intimate Partner Violence

      • Grief & Sudden Loss

    • Systemic Oppression:

      • Racial Trauma

      • Gender-Based Violence

      • Immigration-Related Trauma

    • Sexual Trauma:

      • Assault

      • Exploitation & Trafficking

    • Medical Trauma:

      • Cancer

      • Chronic Illness

      • Health Anxiety & Panic

      • Traumatic Injury

    • Phobias

  • You may relate to the pain that shows up when people make assumptions about you or claim to know your story.

    Staying close to my own values, I am careful to understand that you are a multi-storied and complex individual who deserves to be met with curiosity and respect. My approach to trauma therapy centers all of the stories that are otherwise untold, so you feel empowered to know yourself and be known more authentically.

    This non-pathologizing and relational approach will help you feel ready to take a stand against the harmful and inaccurate stories trauma and oppression convinced you to believe about yourself. In our conversations, we’ll work to understand how your daily life and mental health are impacted by the larger systems you find yourself in.

    Narrative Therapy emphasizes that people are not defined by their problems, but rather are the authors of their own stories and capable of re-authoring negative narratives to more empowering ones.

Frequently Asked Questions

  • It is very common to have hesitation when trying to decide if you’re ready to begin trauma-focused therapy. Our bodies and minds often protect us by telling us not to “go there” in our memories. However, we know that present day anxiety attacks, irritability, flashbacks, nightmares, dissociative amnesia, and negative beliefs are often caused by insufficiently processed or blocked memories. There are safe ways to process what needs to be processed in order to experience meaningful relief in these symptoms.

    I believe that you’re ready for trauma therapy if you’re ready to establish a trusting relationship with a provider who prioritizes your safety, goals and preferred pace throughout treatment. It’s important to know that throughout trauma treatment, you are 100% in control. I am committed to making sure trauma-focused therapy is accessible and stays at a pace that feels safe for you.

  • No. In a careful effort to avoid re-traumatization, EMDR and Narrative Therapy can be used effectively without reliving every detail of your trauma story.

    After working to establish a safe and trusting relationship with your therapist and after learning useful coping techniques, you may be asked to recall aspects of distressing memories. When reprocessing these memories, you are not required to say much out loud about what you remember, feel, or think. Your internal experience of reprocessing is entirely your own. You’re able to share as much or as little as you’d like.

  • Yes. We offer EMDR online using secure platforms and adaptations that maintain effectiveness and safety.

Start your Healing Journey Today

I can appreciate that you are carrying stories that deserve to be witnessed, honored, and rewritten in your preferred ways. Whether you’re ready to explore EMDR, Narrative Therapy or just want to feel heard, I’m here to support you.

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