If you are offering care for your parents, children or as a professional; attending to your own needs might sound like luxury that you can’t afford. Talking about your own challenges may not be an option when others around you perceive you as their “rock”. You may agree with the saying “you can’t pour from an empty cup”, but it’s not really clear how you can practically apply it given the lack of time and energy. Is it time to set aside inaccessible self care tools for now and seek new realistic, practical and deeply restorative experiences ?

Here, you can address challenges including grief, difficulty communicating with the person/people you support, fatigue, anxiety and sleep issues. If you need an action plan, you can use the science and art of building new self care habits that fit your specific role and environment. A nourishing experience that helps you increase your resilience, mental clarity and patience while supporting others, may also help you look back upon your caregiving journey and acknowledge it as a values driven and empowering journey; even if your care and hard work didn’t exactly yield all the desired outcomes.

Wherever you are in your caregiving journey, you are welcome to schedule an online consultation.

Benefits of Consultations for Clinicians and EMDR trained therapists include:

• Increased clarity and assurance when working with clients with acute, chronic, and complex trauma.

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• Refined case conceptualization skills and utilization of a culturally attuned, integrative lens that honors nuance, intergenerational trauma, systemic factors, and complexity.

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• Skillful integration of EMDR, somatic, relational, and culturally responsive approaches without overwhelming the process or the client.

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• Nervous System centered pacing to track and co-regulate effectively at a pace that clients can tolerate.

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• Develop rhythms and systems that enhances your vitality as a clinician not just in between sessions but while actively delivering impactful care.

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• Experience consultations that are collaborative, relational, and shaped by your goals

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•  EMDR trained therapists working toward certification can receive hours that count toward the formal requirements to become EMDRIA Certified EMDR Therapist while gaining access to learning advanced emdr skills for individual and group settings.

Changes including lower cognitive performance, compromised nervous system regulation, unexpected waves of intense sadness, unfulfilling relationships and lack of vitality can be related to unresolved grief. Counseling can facilitate coping with the loss of loved ones as well as the loss of roles, physical ability, relationships and communities. Counseling can help you discover why time didn’t really “take care of it” and how to live healing journeys that foster resilience while honoring the pain that may be unvalidated by social norms. Unaddressed grief can block health and wellbeing no matter how much access you have to strategies, services or information.