Choosing Between CBT and DBT: A Guide
If you have been looking into therapy lately, you might have bumped into a lot of alphabet soup. CBT? DBT? It can feel like you are trying to read a secret code. Both approaches are helpful, but they do have several differences. We’re here to help you understand the different approaches so you can make…
Fight, Flight, or Freeze: What Trauma Responses Mean
Learning about fight, flight, and freeze responses can help reduce shame, build self-awareness, and support healing through trauma therapy or EMDR therapy. Many people have heard the phrase fight, flight, or freeze, but not everyone understands how these trauma responses actually work. These instinctive patterns are part of the body’s built-in stress response system, designed…
CPTSD: Treating Long-Term Trauma
Trauma isn’t always one event. Sometimes it’s a long thread woven through years of a person’s life, almost invisible to others but impossible to escape. This is the territory of Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, or CPTSD—a condition born not from a single wound but from repeated injury over time. What Makes CPTSD Different? Most people…