Connections Counseling of Western Pennsylvania is a Therapist based in the USA. My areas of speciality include ADD and ADHD, Behavioral Issues, Borderline Personality, Chronic Pain, Divorce, Emotional Disturbance, Family Conflict, Men's Issues, Parenting, and Self Esteem. This profile is currently unclaimed; please validate the details are current when communicating with the mental health professional.
Therapist Overview
I enjoy working with children, adolescents, families, and adults. In particular, I work with individuals (and their families) impacted by traumatic stress. I would describe traumatic stress as an “unhealed wound.” These wounds can manifest themselves in disruptive behaviors, defiance, anxiety, depression, struggles with focus, aggression, self-injury, perfectionism and substance use. When wounds are triggered it is common for the person to engage in a fight, flight, or freeze response. The trauma oriented work that I offer assists people of all ages to engage in more effective responses to their wounds. The fight, flight, or freeze response goes away. I specialize in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Therapy (EMDR). EMDR is a trauma informed/evidence-based form of counseling that uses Dual Attention Stimulation to reprocess disturbing memories. When a memory has been reprocessed, people can become “unstuck” from it. They experience greater emotional freedom. Distressing sym