accepting new clients: adventure athletes or individuals with OCD
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It started around the kitchen table. The folks who skydive, BASE jump, and speed fly would come over for dinner after a day of play, and they started to talk. I heard stories of difficult childhoods, how high-risk sports saved their lives, and also how high risk sports were killing them and those they loved, creating more trauma for hearts that already felt too much or nothing at all.
I also heard about attempts at therapy with counselors who couldn't relate or made my friends feel like bad people for doing what they loved. With my own love of the outdoors, I decided to bridge the gap, and I now devote my practice to individuals in the adventure community who can often be misunderstood by the public and even by mental health professionals. If you've had a traumatic experience in the outdoors, if you don't trust yourself anymore, if you shake when you see snow, if you fight panic while you check a knot for the 8th time, if you don't know who you are without your outdoor passion, I've got you... |
I am an Internal Family Systems therapist and certified in EMDR. These modalities will help you to desensitize to triggers, gain more adaptive perspectives of yourself and situations, and live fully in the present.
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My Interview on the Nugget Climbing Podcast |
