*These directories are secular, however many include Christian practitioners. Use filters when available, otherwise check websites or reach out directly to practitioners to inquire about faith
**Many practitioners offer a free 15-30 min consult to chat with them first before booking or paying for a full session. This is an awesome opportunity to chat live with them to see if you jive with them and their style before getting vulnerable.
Therapy is an incredible place to begin exploring your mental health. You will have someone listen to you unconditionally (no interruptions, no judgements, only compassion, empathy and love). It’s a great place to begin learning about and working through issues that your family and community may not have been perfect with. These issues include: attachments (how we relate and bond to others), boundaries (how we protect ourselves even when it disappoints others), behavioral patterns (why we do the silly things we do), and more.
There are many different types of therapy, with talk therapy (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, CBT) being the most common. If you’re just starting out, CBT is a great place to begin. If you have known trauma, make sure your therapist is at least trauma-informed, if not fully trained in trauma healing techniques. This means that they understand how trauma affects the brain and body, and how to work with it to keep you safe throughout your sessions. Great techniques for working with trauma include EFT, EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) and Somatic Experiencing.
If you try it and hate it, just know that each person is unique and it may be the therapist you didn’t jive with. Switching therapists is common. Keep trying until you find someone you connect with and feel you can trust.
This directory is through Psychology Today, one the main national directories for therapists, psychologists and psychiatrists in the US. (There are hundreds of directories, organizations and individual therapist pages that you can find through a simple internet search.)
Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT, Tapping) is a holistic technique that fuses Psychology with Acupressure to gently release the emotional struggles you’re facing right now. It guides you safely to the root cause of your struggles, and releases whatever emotional attachments exist within them, all while keeping you grounded and safe in the present moment. These root causes can include negative emotions, limiting beliefs about yourself and behavioral patterns you’re stuck in; all the way up to the trauma/PTSD you may carry from abuses you may have experienced in your life.
By fusing psychology with acupressure, EFT is able to safely and gently guide you through these root causes and allow you to release them, without experiencing the pain that they carry. It frees you from their emotional burden without having to feel it.
EFT can be used for a wide range of mental health struggles, from weight loss, cravings and phobias; to the more severe psychological struggles such as addictions, disorders (anxiety, insomnia, depression) and trauma/PTSD.
This directory is through EFT International – the leading EFT organization.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a technique that releases the symptoms and emotional distresses you might be carrying from experiences in life that might have been negative (often referred to as trauma).
EMDR uses eye movements (known as bilateral stimulation) to release the negative emotions and internal associations with the negative memories, such as those of abuse. It is an incredible way to release the pain from the memories and transform them on an emotional level, leaving you empowered in your life.
EMDR is the most widely known form of treating trauma and is the only one currently accepted by insurance.
This directory is with EMDR Institute, Inc., the original EMDR organization founded by Francis Shapiro.
Somatic Experiencing (SE) is a holistic way to resolve the symptoms of trauma and relieve chronic stress. It works by releasing the traumatic shock brought on by physical and emotional abuses, including early developmental traumas (traumas from early childhood).
It was developed and fine-tuned by Peter Levine, one of the leading trauma experts in the world.
This directory is through Somatic Experiencing International, the global directory of Certified Somatic Experiencing Practitioners.
Therapy is an incredible place to begin exploring your mental health. You will have someone listen to you unconditionally (no interruptions, no judgements, only compassion, empathy and love). It’s a great place to begin learning about and working through issues that your family and community may not have been perfect with. These issues include: attachments (how we relate and bond to others), boundaries (how we protect ourselves even when it disappoints others), behavioral patterns (why we do the silly things we do), and more.
There are many different types of therapy, with talk therapy (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, CBT) being the most common. If you’re just starting out, CBT is a great place to begin. If you have known trauma, make sure your therapist is at least trauma-informed, if not fully trained in trauma healing techniques. This means that they understand how trauma affects the brain and body, and how to work with it to keep you safe throughout your sessions. Great techniques for working with trauma include EFT, EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) and Somatic Experiencing.
If you try it and hate it, just know that each person is unique and it may be the therapist you didn’t jive with. Switching therapists is common. Keep trying until you find someone you connect with and feel you can trust.
This directory is through Psychology Today, one the main national directories for therapists, psychologists and psychiatrists in the US. (There are hundreds of directories, organizations and individual therapist pages that you can find through a simple internet search.)
Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT, Tapping) is a holistic technique that fuses Psychology with Acupressure to gently release the emotional struggles you’re facing right now. It guides you safely to the root cause of your struggles, and releases whatever emotional attachments exist within them, all while keeping you grounded and safe in the present moment. These root causes can include negative emotions, limiting beliefs about yourself and behavioral patterns you’re stuck in; all the way up to the trauma/PTSD you may carry from abuses you may have experienced in your life.
By fusing psychology with acupressure, EFT is able to safely and gently guide you through these root causes and allow you to release them, without experiencing the pain that they carry. It frees you from their emotional burden without having to feel it.
EFT can be used for a wide range of mental health struggles, from weight loss, cravings and phobias; to the more severe psychological struggles such as addictions, disorders (anxiety, insomnia, depression) and trauma/PTSD.
This directory is through EFT International – the leading EFT organization.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a technique that releases the symptoms and emotional distresses you might be carrying from experiences in life that might have been negative (often referred to as trauma).
EMDR uses eye movements (known as bilateral stimulation) to release the negative emotions and internal associations with the negative memories, such as those of abuse. It is an incredible way to release the pain from the memories and transform them on an emotional level, leaving you empowered in your life.
EMDR is the most widely known form of treating trauma and is the only one currently accepted by insurance.
This directory is with EMDR Institute, Inc., the original EMDR organization founded by Francis Shapiro.
Somatic Experiencing (SE) is a holistic way to resolve the symptoms of trauma and relieve chronic stress. It works by releasing the traumatic shock brought on by physical and emotional abuses, including early developmental traumas (traumas from early childhood).
It was developed and fine-tuned by Peter Levine, one of the leading trauma experts in the world.
This directory is through Somatic Experiencing International, the global directory of Certified Somatic Experiencing Practitioners.
