Therapy Blog
Thoughts from a therapist on anxiety, trauma, embodied living, and mental health
When Insight Isn’t Enough: How IFS and Somatic Therapy Create Embodied Change
You’ve done a lot of reflection. Maybe years of talk therapy. You understand why you feel anxious, overwhelmed or shut down but you still feel stuck.
Fawn Response and Relational Trauma: “I lose me so I don’t lose you”
Most of us have heard of flight, fight, and freeze. Fawning gets mentioned too, but it's often misunderstood. If you haven't yet, read this first for an introduction to the fawn response. Here, I want to go a layer deeper, into what makes fawning unique from the other...
When Being Highly Sensitive Means You Learned to Read Everyone But Yourself
Do you feel like you have always been good at reading people? You notice the pause before someone answers. The subtle shift in someone's tone. The change in energy when a room suddenly feels tense. Long before anyone says they are upset, you already know. You...
Vicarious Trauma, Burnout, and the Weight of Caring: How Therapy Supports Helpers
Most of the time you love the work you do... But there are days when what you see, hear, or experience can be crushing. The most painful, brutal, or frightening parts of being human are laid out before you. You are surrounded by it every day at work and after a...
Echo Park Therapist’s Guide to Overthinking
A somatic and embodied approach to getting out of your head Most people I work with at Embodied Living Therapy don’t come in saying, “I overthink.” They say, “I’m exhausted,” or “I can’t shut my brain off,” or “I know what my patterns are but I still feel...