by Steve Krautkramer | Jun 21, 2017 | Theories, Research, and Educational
I want to express my deepest gratitude to my clients. It is a major act of courage to go to therapy. One that many people experience intense feelings of shame about. If there was one thing I’d want to tell someone on the fence about seeking help it would be how...
by Steve Krautkramer | Apr 10, 2017 | Theories, Research, and Educational
EMDR stands for Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing. Created by Francine Shapiro in the late 1980s, it is an evidence-based therapy that excels in healing trauma. But it can be used for much more including depression, anxiety, changing limiting beliefs,...
by Steve Krautkramer | Jan 27, 2017 | Theories, Research, and Educational
PTSD is a form of anxiety disorder that happens after a person experiences a traumatic event and often have little support immediately following it. It can be a single incident or multiple incidents that occurred even decades ago. When this happens our body is in a...
by Steve Krautkramer | Jul 9, 2016 | Theories, Research, and Educational
What is “The Light Socket of Awesome?” It is when we find that one awesome thing we’ve yearned for but have grown so used to not getting that when it does show up it’s actually really hard to grab on to. It’s as if getting what we want is like grabbing an electrical...
by Steve Krautkramer | May 18, 2016 | Theories, Research, and Educational
Trauma is not always something that is very noticeable. Extreme forms of it we hear about all the time. The soldier who was exposed to combat, the abusive partner, the sexual assault victim, those are the big ones. Those are trauma with a capital “T.” But we all...
by Steve Krautkramer | May 6, 2016 | Theories, Research, and Educational
Dr. Bessel Van der Kolk is a master in working with and healing trauma. How we react to trauma when it happens absolutely does manifest in your nervous system. This is an excerpt from an interview with him and his approach to healing. Sometimes people can remember...
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