Services
Individual Counseling
Offering services for
- Women who experienced physical, sexual, or emotional abuse during childhood
- Women who are survivors of domestic violence
- Depression
- Anxiety
- Relational trauma
- Identifying and working through attachment styles
Teen Counseling
The adolescent years can be a challenging stage of life. This is a time of self-discovery and social interactions. Adolescent girls can face challenges such as body image and self-acceptance. They may also struggle with maintaining healthy relationships while interacting with their peers.
Purple Petals Healing Bar can assist your adolescent with identifying stressors and learning healthy coping skills to navigate their adolescent years with confidence. We also assist with identifying their emotions and communicating their feelings assertively. We believe every adolescent girl has inner seeds of strength. With nurturing and support we can help her sprout petals for growth.
We assist with overcoming
- Depression
- Anxiety
- Suicide ideations
- Low self-esteem
- Healthy Relationships and boundary implementation
- Past experiences of abuse, neglect or abandonment
Trauma and EMDR
Trauma is the response of an event that leaves an individual feeling threatened or distressed. The experience could take place as a single event or multiple events over a period of time. The event could be a natural disaster or an unexpected accident. As a result the individual may suffers with disruption in a physical, emotional, or psychological way.
Relational Trauma is the response of feeling distressed and unsafe. Unlike a single traumatic event, relational trauma is ongoing and it involves at least two individuals. Relational trauma during childhood is the experience of abandonment, abuse, or emotional and physical neglect. Relational trauma as an adult could consist of domestic violence or enmeshment. This type of trauma could leave an individual using avoidance, interacting anxiously, or experiences symptoms of depression while engaging in their adult relationships.
How Trauma Impacts the Body- Individual may feel hyperaware, holds tension and other unpleasant sensations in their body. One may feels disconnected or numb and have difficulties identifying body sensations. Exposure to trauma could also cause physical illnesses such as headaches, stomach aches, and back pains.
EMDR therapy
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) can assist with getting rid of symptoms and memories from the past that are stored in long-term memory. It helps retrieve the long-term memories and place them into your short-term memory. Once memories are in the short-term memory they are reprocessed and desensitized through bilateral stimulation, which causes disturbance to decrease. As the disturbance decrease your information and beliefs about yourself are reframed into positive beliefs with decreased symptoms and triggers.
Through EMDR therapy, I assist women in healing from relational wounds, so they can navigate relationships with confidence and ease.