Karen R Harris Counseling

*Evening Appointments available* Do you feel unseen, overlooked, judged, or misunderstood? Feel alone in a group? Are you disconnected from your body or have childhood trauma to heal? I work with children, teens, adults, and couples using talk therapy approaches that help you feel whole and like you can thrive rather than survive. Another type of therapy I do is called EMDR which can remove fears and trigger responses around traumatic experiences that inhibit your life. Trauma experiences are stored differently than good experiences. EMDR reprocesses your trauma memory so that it integrates into your brain like a good memory. In order to survive trauma, our brains very intelligently create a mechanism to help us get through it. It compartmentalizes our personality into parts that fight, flee, freeze, submit, attach, and “Go on with Normal Life”. Our “Normal Life” self may work and have a social life but inside we are often hiding behaviors that cause us shame and fear. If you feel like you are watching your life through a window…if you are a destination seeker who can’t enjoy the journey but instead are waiting for some “thing” before you allow yourself to relax or feel happy, I SEE YOU. You don’t need to experience your feelings in isolation. My specialty is seeing everyone’s value.