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Two children come to mind whenever I am asked this question, and they are not the same child. The first was fine, and then something happened, and now is not fine. There is a date. The parents can...
By the time a parent asks me this question, they have usually done a fair amount of reading, and they have arrived at two names. Trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy, which turns up...
Parents calling about a single event often apologize somewhere in the first minute. It was just a car accident, and nobody was seriously hurt. It was only a dog bite, and the dog was small. He was...
Your Teenager Refuses to Discuss It. EMDR May Still Work The calls I get about teenagers sound different from the calls I get about young children. With a seven-year-old, a parent wants to know...
EMDR Therapy for Children: A Parent's Guide to How It Actually Works Nearly every parent who calls me about EMDR for their child asks the same question within the first few minutes, though they...
Demystifying Bias in Couples Therapy One of the most common concerns I hear before meeting a new couple has nothing to do with communication, intimacy, or conflict. It's this: "I'm worried the...
When One Person's Trauma Becomes the Family's Reality If you're the spouse or partner of a first responder, you know a truth that the public rarely sees: the trauma doesn't stay at the station. It...
AT A GLANCE • Compassion fatigue, burnout, and PTSD are distinct conditions with different mechanisms, symptoms, and treatment requirements, though they frequently co-occur in first responders and...
AT A GLANCE • The window of tolerance describes the optimal arousal zone where information processing, emotional regulation, and executive functioning operate effectively, developed by Daniel Siegel...
Understanding the Distinction Between PTSD and Complex PTSD The International Classification of Diseases, 11th edition (ICD-11) introduced two distinct but related diagnoses within trauma and...
Understanding Dissociation as Disconnection From Present Reality Summary This article provides an in-depth examination of dissociative symptoms—disconnection from self, body, reality, or memory—as...
Understanding the Fawn Response as Trauma Survival Strategy Summary This comprehensive article explores the fawn response—the fourth trauma response involving compulsive people-pleasing and...
Balanced Mind is a psychotherapy and counseling center offering online therapy throughout New York. We specialize in Schema Therapy and EMDR Therapy. We work with insurance to provide our clients with both quality and accessible care.
Two children come to mind whenever I am asked this question, and they are not the same child. The first was fine, and then something happened, and now is not fine. There is a date. The parents can name it. Before the ambulance, or the dog, or the night the fire alarm...
By the time a parent asks me this question, they have usually done a fair amount of reading, and they have arrived at two names. Trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy, which turns up everywhere and is often described as the gold standard. And EMDR, which sounds...
Parents calling about a single event often apologize somewhere in the first minute. It was just a car accident, and nobody was seriously hurt. It was only a dog bite, and the dog was small. He was in the hospital for two nights, which is nothing compared to what other...