What is Childhood Emotional Neglect?

What is Childhood Emotional Neglect?

Childhood emotional neglect (CEN) is something parents often unwittingly put their kids through. They don’t understand what it is, or how crippling the consequences are.  Many parents were emotionally neglected as kids themselves. Which makes it even more of a...
Top 10 Questions People Ask About Trauma Therapy

Top 10 Questions People Ask About Trauma Therapy

When trauma has made life feel heavy, unpredictable, or unsafe, just thinking about asking for help can feel daunting. You’re not alone. Many people in Sacramento, Roseville, and Fair Oaks have walked this path before you. In like manner, they ask the same questions,...
How Childhood Trauma Affects Adults

How Childhood Trauma Affects Adults

Kids don’t have a choice. They can’t simply pack up their belongings and leave a horrible situation. And rather than see the trauma or abuse for what it is, many adjust their inner world to try and explain it away, dismiss it, or make it “ok.” Studies show that if...
PTSD Awareness: What Is It and How Is It Treated?

PTSD Awareness: What Is It and How Is It Treated?

The truth?  There’s probably a lot more people suffering from PTSD than we’ll ever know. The effects of trauma exist on a spectrum, and people all have differences when it comes to their threshold for discomfort and the ways they manage.  Some deny their mental...
Why Self-Pay for Therapy?

Why Self-Pay for Therapy?

If you are curious about whether or not you could benefit from therapy, there’s one way to tell for sure: Are you breathing? Great. You need therapy. All joking aside, all of us benefit from therapy at one point or another. No matter who you are or what you have, the...
Trauma Treatment: What is EMDR and Brainspotting?

Trauma Treatment: What is EMDR and Brainspotting?

If you have experienced any form of trauma, you know it lingers. The fear response, the flashbacks and the nightmares insist on sticking around, casting a shadow over everything.   A line in the sand separating life before and life after the incident is clear. Though...