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Distress Tolerance in DBT: Tools for Managing Trauma Responses
Trauma triggers can activate the nervous system without warning, but DBT distress tolerance skills offer practical, body-based tools to restore a sense of safety in the moment. Explore how TIP skills, self-soothing, and healthy distraction to help you manage trauma triggers with greater control and compassion.
Rebuilding Relational Safety After Trauma Activation
Healing from trauma happens through safe connection. EFT helps individuals and couples slow down, understand their emotional patterns, and repair ruptures with presence, care, and trust.
Emotional Recovery Through Mindfulness: A Practical Guide to Presence
Mindfulness Therapy supports emotional recovery by helping individuals reconnect with the present moment, reduce reactivity, and relate to difficult emotions with clarity and compassion. This blog discusses how mindfulness therapy works, why it supports emotional recovery, and how simple, structured practices can help calm the nervous system and build resilience.
DBT Therapy: Navigating compassion fatigue during crisis work
DBT therapy offers practical tools to help you balance acceptance of emotional depletion while gradually rebuilding empathy, resilience, and sustainable self-care—so you can continue showing up for others without losing yourself in the process.
Understanding Inner Conflict in Anxious Young Adults: How IFS Therapy Brings Clarity and Calm
Anxiety can feel like an inner battle between worry, perfectionism, and exhaustion, each voice pulling in a different direction. With IFS therapy, these parts can be acknowledged with curiosity rather than judgment, real healing begins.
Transforming Trauma-Related Thoughts: A Self-Compassionate CBT Approach
Trauma doesn’t just leave memories—it can reshape how a person thinks, feels, and makes sense of the world. Trauma-related thoughts may surface long after the event, often triggered by fear, shock, or moments of overwhelm. Learn how CBT is an effective approach for trauma.
CBT for Trauma: Understanding the Body to Rebuild Emotional Resilience
The body’s trauma response can activate long before the mind fully understands what’s happening, leading to patterns of fear, numbness, or shutdown. Gaining insight into these reactions creates the foundation for healing, a process supported through CBT therapy.
DBT Therapy & Emotion Regulation: A Powerful Approach to Burnout Prevention
Burnout isn’t just a buzzword—it’s a lived reality for many people facing constant pressure to stay productive and available. While basic self-care can help, it often doesn’t address the emotional patterns that fuel long-term exhaustion. The emotion regulation skills learned in DBT, offers deeper tools for understanding and managing stress.
Helping Kids Turn Trauma Triggers Into Strength With DBT Therapy
DBT therapy helps children understand their trauma triggers and gives them the tools to feel safe, calm, and in control again. With the right skills, kids can transform overwhelming moments into opportunities for confidence and resilience.
From “What If” to “I Can Handle It” Using CBT to Calm Catastrophic Thinking in Children
This blog outlines how CBT reduces catastrophic thinking in children by identifying distorted thought patterns and teaching healthier cognitive and coping strategies. These skills help children respond to stress with stability and confidence.
CBT Therapy: Managing Somatic Symptoms of Anxiety
When anxiety shows up physically, tight shoulders, nausea, knots in your stomach, it can disrupt daily life in overwhelming ways. CBT helps by teaching awareness, reframing, and practical coping techniques to manage these sensations.
Taming the What-If Mind: How CBT Restores Calm
Find out how CBT therapy helps quiet the overwhelming “what-if” thoughts of anxiety, offering practical tools to build calm, confidence, and grounded thinking.
CBT Therapy: Calming the “What-If” Mind in Anxiety Disorders
Anxiety can feel like living with a constant soundtrack of ‘What if something goes wrong?’ or ‘What if I can’t handle this?’ These thoughts can spiral quickly how to quiet that “what-if” voice, replacing fear-driven assumptions with grounded, realistic thinking. CBT therapy offers practical, evidence-based tools so clients can regain control of their mind rather than letting anxiety lead the way.
CBT Therapy: Helping Children Navigate Grief During the Holidays
At Healing Voices Psychotherapy, CBT therapy helps children cope with grief during the holidays by teaching emotional skills, building resilience, and supporting healing through compassionate guidance.
Healing After Betrayal: Rebuilding Trust Through EFT Therapy
When trust breaks, the path forward can feel uncertain and overwhelming. Find out how healing becomes possible when emotions are understood, validated, and gently guided through EFT Therapy.
EFT Therapy: Healing Trust after Relational Trauma
At Healing Voices Psychotherapy, Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT) helps individuals and couples heal from relational trauma by restoring trust, rebuilding emotional safety, and strengthening meaningful connection.
Repairing Parent–Child Conflict with Emotion-Focused Therapy
Family communication doesn’t have to feel exhausting. EFT Therapy helps parents and children understand the emotions beneath the conflict so they can reconnect with compassion.
How EFT Therapy Supports Couples After Miscarriage
At Healing Voices Psychotherapy, Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) helps couples heal after miscarriage by strengthening emotional connection, supporting shared grief, and rebuilding closeness together.
Strengthening Emotional Bonds in Intercultural Relationships: How EFT Therapy Can Help
Intercultural relationships carry a unique blend of beauty, complexity, and emotional depth. This blog explores what can shape connection or distance in these partnerships, and how couples can move toward greater understanding and closeness.
Finding Calm During Bedtime Routines: How Mindfulness Therapy Can Ease Parental Stress
Discover how mindfulness therapy helps parents manage bedtime stress. Learn how to stay calm, present, and connected while helping your kids wind down for the night.
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