Grace Higa - New York Psychotherapy

EMDR vs. CBT: How to Know Which Therapy Fits You

Starting therapy is hard enough without having to choose a method first. Many people who reach out to us have already done some reading and arrived at two names: eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) and cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT). Both turn up...

Somatic Approaches to First Responder Trauma: Working with the Body That Has Been to the Scene

EMDR Therapy, Trauma + PTSD

First responder trauma lives in the body. Years of operational conditioning teach emergency service personnel to suppress emotional and physiological responses to distressing stimuli, but suppression is not resolution. The stress hormones, the muscular bracing, the...

Police Officers and PTSD: Understanding the Law Enforcement Trauma Profile

EMDR Therapy, Trauma + PTSD

Post-traumatic stress disorder in police officers is one of the most extensively studied yet persistently undertreated conditions in occupational mental health. Law enforcement trauma carries a clinical profile that is genuinely distinct from civilian PTSD and from...

Paramedics and Compassion Fatigue: The Hidden Toll of Emergency Medical Work

EMDR Therapy, Trauma + PTSD

Of all the first responder disciplines, paramedicine asks something uniquely intimate of the people who practice it. Paramedics and emergency medical technicians do not arrive at scenes to contain threats or suppress fires. They kneel beside suffering human beings,...

Firefighters and Grief: Processing Line-of-Duty Loss and Survivor Guilt

EMDR Therapy, Trauma + PTSD

Firefighters are among the most publicly celebrated of all first responders, and among the least adequately served by the mental health systems that are supposed to support them. Their occupational trauma is shaped by a distinctive constellation of factors: the...

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EMDR vs. CBT: How to Know Which Therapy Fits You

Somatic Approaches to First Responder Trauma: Working with the Body That Has Been to the Scene

Police Officers and PTSD: Understanding the Law Enforcement Trauma Profile

Paramedics and Compassion Fatigue: The Hidden Toll of Emergency Medical Work

Firefighters and Grief: Processing Line-of-Duty Loss and Survivor Guilt

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