Melissa Shockman is a Therapist based in the USA. My areas of speciality include Adoption, Anxiety, Coping Skills, Depression, Learning Disabilities, Life Transitions, Peer Relationships, Self Esteem, Spirituality, and Women's Issues. This profile is currently unclaimed; please validate the details are current when communicating with the mental health professional.
Therapist Overview
Authentic Wholeness, LLC makes a firm commitment to offer expertise to people who are struggling after experiencing trauma to find ways to recover and improve overall function. Conditions of trauma experiences vary due to proximity, intensity, and frequency. Critical incident exposure is when natural coping mechanisms of the brain and body become overwhelmed and therefore revert to a potentially damaging stress state required for survival. Options under such duress become limited to fight, flee, or freeze responses. Melissa Shockman, MA has a master’s level degree from George Fox University in Marriage, Couples and Family Therapy Even positive changes can be energetically challenging. Imagine instead having a deeper sense of connection with other people, an increased capacity to self-calm and self-regulate emotions & thoughts, a greater sense of trust within oneself. Survival needs, and reactions to extreme stress exposure should be honored, acknowledged, respected, and accepted. FEM