Trauma Resolution Therapy

EMDR

Natural Processing

 The Healing Time~ Pesha Joyce Gertler

 Finally on my way to yes
I bump into
all the places
where I said no
to my life
all the untended wounds
the red and purple scars
those hieroglyphs of pain
carved into my skin, my bones,
those coded messages
that send me down
the wrong street
again and again
where I find them
the old wounds
the old misdirections
and I lift them
one by one
close to my heart
and I say    holy
                                   holy. 

Letters to a Young Poet ~ Ranier Maria Rilke

... have patience with everything unresolved in your heart

and to try to love the questions themselves

as if they were locked rooms or books written

in a very foreign language.

Don't search for the answers,

which could not be given to you now,

because you would not be able to live them.

And the point is, to live everything.
Live the questions now.

No one is ever completely broken
It's just a matter of

how much has to fall apart

before the ember of life

is exposed to air.

~Charles Eisentein

Trauma-informed psychotherapy

At some point almost everybody has experienced some form of trauma, big or small. These experiences can remain in the nervous system and contribute to unhelpful habitual or compulsive ways of being. April can help you release the patterns and symptoms of trauma with the help of any of the following methods.

Eye Movement and Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR) is a way of releasing experiences that cause distress, by activating the right and left hemispheres of the brain.

Handout: What is EMDR

Natural Processing (NP)  is a type of body-centered EMDR that targets the ways we disconnect from ourselves and supports nervous system healing.

Trauma Containment and Resolution (CAR)  helps to resolve trauma symptoms by tracking body sensations to release incomplete actions from the nervous system.

Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP)  creates an altered state of consciousness that facilitates the processing of trauma and depressive patterns.

Experiential psychotherapy

Nature-based psychotherapy is a transpersonal therapy that incorporates the mind-body relationship, spirituality, and the study of consciousness for human transformation. Time in nature can help you take space from your inner self-critic, challenge what you thought you knew about yourself, enter intimately into your aliveness and develop a relationship with something vastly larger than yourself. April can help you develop your own spiritual foundations, learn to heed the call of your soul and uncover your own basic goodness.  In this way, you can gain access to your innate strengths and underlying wholeness.

Nature-based psychotherapy

Drawing on ecology, traditional indigenous knowledge, rites of passage practices, the body-mind connection, art and creativity to help cultivate a sense of belonging and connection with nature. Outside or indoors, April can help you find your current circumstances reflected in the natural world and understand your life as part of the natural cycles of change. No matter what you are going through, something in nature has already experienced it and can offer guidance. As a result, you will come to know your deep interconnectedness with all life and find that you are never truly alone.

Therapy

Individual Therapy

Hakomi
Wilderness Therapy

Relationship Counseling

Couples Therapy

Premarital Counseling