It can be a common experience in our busy world where we feel we aren't in touch with our feelings, or our inner experiences. What this can sometimes mean is that our feelings feel overwhelming, confusing, shut down, or hard to name. From a somatic attachment lens, this isn’t a personal failure - it’s actually how we have survived until now. Our capacity to understand and regulate emotions develops in relationship. When early caregivers were consistently attuned, we learned t

Therapy is often seen as a place we can go to talk about what's bothering us or process past experiences. Something that often isn't understood about therapy is the importance and the impact of the therapeutic relationship. Studies have found that the strength of the therapeutic relationship actually predicts symptomatic improvement (Falkenström, Granström & Holmqvist, 2013). This highlights the importance of the relationship between client and therapist. When working from th

You might think people-pleasing is a personality trait. Maybe you chalk it up to being “too nice.” But what if it isn’t about niceness at all what if it’s about survival and how your body feels the safest?

"Do I need therapy? I function pretty well in my day-to-day." Therapy is becoming more of a commonly talked-about topic. The idea of what therapy can support with is widening past the idea that it's only for people in crisis, we are now often bumping up against the idea of, "Do I need therapy if everything feels ok?" Therapy is something that can be supportive throughout many seasons of your life - and this doesn't just mean when the seasons are bumpy. Some of the transformat