Certified EMDR Therapist in Holliston easily accessible from Metro West Boston.
Release your past. Reach your potential.
Meet Kathy
Safety, compassion and honesty without judgement. That's me. A certified EMDR therapist with degrees from Fordham University, Boston College & Assumption College with licenses in MA, FL and VT.
Ready to get your life back? If your past is negatively impacting your potential and you find yourself living somewhere between fight or flight and shutdown mode you may have PTSD or another mental health concern that can be successfully treated with EMDR.
Does it feel like you spent all those years preparing for your future and now that it's here you're not sure what you're doing? Is your nervous system saying, "Heck no, I'm too tired, anxious or scared"? You do not have to struggle or feel alone. With over 30 years of experience, and as a Certified EMDR therapist, I help you transform self doubt into determination, exhaustion into enthusiasm and self criticism into self compassion, calm and confidence.
It takes courage and compassionate guidance to find your true self and live a life of possibilities. My holistic approach integrates EMDR, IFS (Internal family Systems), DBR (Deep Brain Reorienting) and mindful self -compassion to transform your life.
You don't need a "right" to feel down or have trauma. People often will not seek EMDR therapy because they think, "it wasn't so bad". It doesn't work that way. Sometimes it feels obvious, but often it's not. Fighting our own minds and tired or ill body is exhausting and demoralizing. Chronic illnesses, tired and overwhelmed nervous systems in fight or flight or shut down mode can be managed and overcome with EMDR.
It is not an event that determines whether something is traumatic to you. It is how you experience the event that matters, how it impacts your life and your loved ones. A frightening, dangerous, or violent event can overwhelm our body’s natural coping abilities but so too can a disorganized childhood or living in situations where your needs were not met.
EMDR
What is EMDR? Depression, fear, and anxiety are some of the most common and uncomfortable emotions that we can experience. You don't have to live this way. EMDR therapy helps you recognize what's going on, find the strengths you have and helps you implement new skills and strategies to live the life you want. You don't have to settle or struggle through life work with an EMDR therapist today and get results faster than with talk therapy or psychotherapy.
What is EMDR? Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing is an evidence-based therapy that reprocesses disturbing memories so that they are in the past not frozen in your body with the images, sounds, beliefs at the time of the event. Trauma can make people feel broken. Hypervigilence, panic, anxiety, depression is a sign that your nervous system is doing what it was designed to do: Protect you and keep you safe, but at some point in your life your safety strategies became counterproductive and maladaptive. Together we heal your body and your mind allowing the past to safely remain behind you and your future full of potential and possibilities.
You are Adaptive, not Defective.
Together we will resolve your trauma and help you (re)gain safety, trust, intimacy, and self-worth.
There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief,
of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.
Washington Irving