COUNSELING
MORE THAN TALK THERAPY
EMDR Therapy and Skills-Building Counseling for Women
Nervous System Informed Therapy with a Focus on Mental, Emotional, Social and Secure Relationship Skills
NOTIFICATION SYSTEM
Helpful Reminders To Keep You on Track
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Why focus on learning and skills-building?
We now know that most emotional and mental health conditions are due to a lack of social-emotional health skills and maladaptive coping, 'getting' and 'protecting' behaviors that cause havoc on our lives and relationships — people-pleasing, sabotaging, obsessing, blaming, binging, etc. only to feel depleted, exhausted, stressed and disconnected.
UNDERSTANDING WHY AND HOW TO FEEL BETTER
Why emotional nervous system health skills?
Lack of processing skills results in unprocessed emotions results in what neuropsychologists refer to as 'emotional constipation' — a chronic stress state with cortisol, adrenalin and other stress chemicals stuck in our cells. This results in anxiety disorder, OCD, depression and other mental health conditions, along with dysfunctional immune system, sluggish metabolism, and severe depletion of 'feel good' oxytocin and serotonin. This lack of oxytocin, known as the 'love hormone' disables our ability to feel calm and secure with ourselves and loved-ones.
PRACTICING SKILLS AND ACTUALLY FEELING BETTER
Leads to inner critic and depressing helplessness
To make matters worse we berate ourselves or blame others, thinking we should just be able to 'snap out of it' and 'feel better' even though we don't know how to deactivate our nervous system. Our inner critic rails against us only making matters worse by increase more stress chemicals, falling victim to the cycle of feeling powerless or anxious about our emotions and symptoms, grappling with shame, anxiety and helplessness.
PRACTICING SKILLS TO RELATE TO YOURSELF BETTER
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What is an insecure vs secure attachment style?
Our attachment style — stemming from childhood, directly correlates to the quality and duration of our relationships with family, partner, friends and career. It is foundational to our self-worth, self-trust, purpose and naturally provides us with the strength, awareness and capacity to stay out of the Codependency Trauma Triangle (conflict triangle, drama triangle, abuse cycle) where we lose ourselves and suffer.
PRACTICING SKILLS TO RELATE WITH OTHERS BETTER
NOTIFICATION SYSTEM
Hi, I'm Athena
I provide a collaborative, compassionate therapeutic space for my clients to vent, unpack and navigate the big and small things, your relationships, career, life's ups and downs, while overcoming limiting beliefs and even heal from a loss, heartbreak or trauma. I also incorporate empowering emotional processing, nervous system calming and secure relating skills with communication tools and boundaries practices, to build self-trust and mental, emotional and relational well-being.
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ALERT SYSTEM
Let Your Body Be Your Guide
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LEARN MORE ABOUT YOURSELF
Track Your Sleeping Habits
TAKE A DEEP BREATH
