Female Psychology
We guide those who identify as women through challenges associated with female body image, interpersonal relationships, and being a woman in business.
Using a somatic therapies, female psychology, and internal family systems (IFS) therapy and our clients:
Love and celebrate their bodies
Navigate multiple roles (partner, mother, vocational roles) and create work life balance
Increase levels of presence and pleasure in their lives
Explore interpretive dance, yoga, creativity, and movement
Services
mTBI, PTSD
resolve your traumas
Female Psychology
love your body and spirit
Clinical Counseling and Psychotherapy
For 10+ years, we have taught patients to overcome stress and trauma. Psychotherapy creates new insights to old problems. The answers become clear and we get you moving.
Create a life defined by your authentic desires, not anxiety and trauma!
Is this response trauma or truth?
Anxiety
Relationship anxiety
Trauma
Panic
Performance enhancement
Improve stress tolerance
Body Image
Post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
Somatic therapies access the brain's limbic center.
EMDR and Brainspotting Therapy
Neuroplasticity helps the brain break old trauma responses and develop new ways of coping. We reintegrate the traumatic experience with openness, compassion, and self-love.
EMDR and Brainspotting bypass cortical reasoning and work with the body's intuitive wisdom to reprocess, reintegrate, and release emotional traumas.
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Bilateral stimulation (eye movements, tactile, or auditory stimulation) creates interhemispheric communication and multiple regions of the brain communicate with each other.
When our brain's get "stuck" in a trauma response, its difficult to be rational. EMDR and Brainspotting quickly breaks through "stuck" processing (or trauma looping), disrupts ruminations and obsessive thought patterns, and allows the brain to access new insights!!
Concussion, Brain Injury, and PTSD
“Counseling, education, and psychotherapy to improve self efficacy and self regulation are appropriate initial treatment modalities. [1]”
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Hilary Morris and her team have 10 years of experience working with patients who have experienced a mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) and subsequent post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
They help patients and their families understand, accept, and adjust to life after mTBI. They help clients recognize triggers, label emotions, and decrease stress levels around their traumatic event. Additionally, they help clients unpair the conditioned stimulus with the conditioned trauma response (panic, nightmares, flashbacks) using somatic and desensitization therapies.
Love your new body and brain! Work with your brain injury rather than against it!
Forensic Psychology Services
Workers' Compensation, Personal Injury (MVA), Psychological Evaluation and Treatment:
Evidenced based psychotherapy
Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)
Stress inoculation training (SIT)
Behavioral modification
Desensitization therapy (ex: eye movement desensitization reprocessing (EMDR), exposure therapy, Brainspotting)
Exposure therapy
Return to workplace evaluation
Psychological diagnostic intake assessment
Pre-surgical psychological evaluation (Morphine intrathecal pump, spinal chord stimulator trial)
Independent psychological evaluation (IPE)
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We serve clients in workers' compensation and personal injury systems. We provide evidenced based psychotherapy to clients who have developed post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) following a concussion or mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI).
Our evaluations, treatment notes, and medicolegal reports meet admissibility standards for legal proceedings and litigation from an accident/injury.
We provide excellent diagnostics and treatment to quantify psychological injuries. This strengthens the client’s case and provides access to clinically appropriate care.
Post-Traumatic Stress and Emotional Trauma
“Trauma occurs when something happens we can not prepare for””
A traumatizing event occurs when we become overwhelmed past our normal emotional threshold. We become highly sensitized to evocative cues ("triggers") in our environment that mimic the initial traumatic event. We use protocols and a theoretical orientation outlined by subject matter experts in the field of emotional trauma and post-traumatic stress, Dr. Francine Shapiro, Dr. Bessel Van Der Kolk, Dr. David Grand, Dr. Peter Levine, and Dr. Bruce Perry.
We use a combination of the following methods to desensitize and reintegrate traumatic experiences (single event traumas, car accident, sexual trauma, combat trauma, military trauma, first responder trauma):
Biofeedback with Somatic Focus
Stress Inoculation Training (SIT)
Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR)
Exposure Therapy
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
Brainspotting Therapy
Mindfulness
