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11/28/2022 0 Comments

EMDR & Me

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by Jessica Wilkerson, LMFT 104464
It's not for everybody, and everyone isn't necessarily ready for it when they walk in the door.

The following article is written from my experience as a psychotherapist who has been providing EMDR since 2014.  If you're reading this and you're a fellow clinician, you'll be happy to hear that my training was EMDRIA approved.  I've been trained in the standard protocol and also in the Interpersonal protocol invented by Roy Kiessling.

If you're not a therapy-nerd, then all of that was just my way of tooting my horn and letting other therapists know I'm legit - there are some wonky EMDR trainings out there that give this modality a bad name when those therapists start trying to use what they were taught.  The EMDRIA part of that paragraph is the most important part.


But I digress...  Why is it not for everyone and why are people not necessarily ready for it right away?

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11/21/2022 0 Comments

The observing self, and why to make friends with it.

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By Joe Acciaioli, LCSW
​Ever notice how good your dog or cat is at being fully in the moment? Not a care in the world. Just lying around, enjoying a sunbeam or special toy. Not worrying about what comes next, or what happened last week. Just enjoying what is happening. Right. Now. So simple!
We humans, however, are much more complicated than our pets. We are both blessed and cursed with what is sometimes called the observing self. The observing self means our ability to step back from thoughts and feelings, in a way animals can't. This is due to our big brains. The trouble is, we often race around letting our thoughts and feelings rule us. When that happens, we're not so much observing our thoughts and feelings as we are buying into them, as if they were our identity.

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11/11/2022 0 Comments

Life is Really Hard Right Now

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by Jessica Wilkerson, LMFT
Yes, I'm a psychotherapist, an entrepreneur, a wife, mom, sister, friend... and... I'm also constantly putting out little smoldering fires all around me.  Sometimes I feel like I'm about to be engulfed in the flames.  Other times it's calm and peaceful, and I wonder to myself, "when is the next natural disaster?" or "Is this really just the eye of the storm? Am I safe to feel safe right now?"

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11/4/2022 0 Comments

When Kids Lash Out

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I think the biggest conundrum for parents is when kids lash out/ yell at parents or when they completely shut down. Parents can get super frustrated and think the kids just trying to be "bad" or oppositional. But really most of the time kids just want to be heard. 

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VISION: Creating a new kind of therapy experience in the Chico and Redding areas in which therapists have smaller caseloads, giving them the flexibility to spend more time with clients as needed - longer sessions, phone calls, client-centered advocacy.  Creating a space in our community where clients can go between sessions to sit, linger, and re-center themselves when they're having difficult days.  A place to belong while they heal their hearts and relationships.  A therapy office that embodies the unconditional love of Christ, no matter what a person's gender identity, romantic disposition, or previous life hardships, experiences, or actions might have been.  To be a safe place.

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