Alchemize and Heal
Musings, teachings, skills and resources for anyone on a journey of healing and self-discovery. This is a space to share insights that have come during my work as a psychologist.
Feelings Part 4: Ketamine and Feelings - Opening the Door to Emotional Healing
Years of stress, trauma, or depression can make it hard to connect with your feelings. Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP) can help, making it easier to access emotions and process them in a safe, supportive way.
Feelings Part 3: How to Express and Communicate Your Feelings in Healthy Ways
There are many ways to express emotions, and not all of them involve talking. What matters most is finding ways that feel safe and authentic for you.
Feelings Part 2: When You Can’t Name What You’re Feeling - How Suppressed Emotions Show Up in the Body and Mind
From thinking to feeling - reconnecting with your body.
Feelings Part 1: Why Feelings Matter (Especially When You Feel Disconnected)
If you’ve ever said, “I don’t know what I’m feeling,” or “I feel numb,” you’re not alone. Many people come into therapy feeling disconnected from their emotions.
You Are Not Your Thoughts Part 3: Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy and the Default Mode Network (DVM)
Explore how psychedelics—specifically Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP)—can rapidly improve cognitive flexibility and therapeutic progress.
Racing to the Finish Line: Mindfulness, Time, and the Habit of Rushing
Stress is so ubiquitous in our culture, but there are internal and external practices that can help make our relationships with time more healthy.
You Are Not Your Thoughts Part 2: The Passengers on the Bus - Living Authentically with Cognitive Defusion
Almost all form of psychological distress or angst is rooted in our tendency to merge with thoughts and treat them as if they were literal truths. Because we get so caught up with what is happening in our thoughts, we often lose track of what we truly value in life.
You Are Not Your Thoughts Part 1: Cognitive Defusion as a Path to Emotional Freedom
“As a man thinkith, so is he,” is a profound statement. Though perhaps not its original intent, this phrase highlights our tendency to become so embroiled with the content of our thoughts that we lose many other aspects of ourselves.
The Power of Connection: Why Asking for Help Is Hard—and Why You Should Do It Anyway
Asking for help from others can be particularly troubling in Western society which emphasizes individuality and independence as cultural values. It is both difficult and necessary to be able to receive help from others, particularly when crisis strikes in your life.
PEACE Resource Protocol- A Tool for Trying Times
During periods of increased stress, our nervous systems can remain on high alert if we don’t consciously take actions to release the build up on tension. The PEACE protocol is a wonderful tool that I have been sharing with clients.
Brief Crisis Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Part 2: Oscillation
In the second blog in this series on Brief Crisis Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, I will be exploring how Sensorimotor therapy techniques can help promote integration of difficult experiences.
Brief Crisis Sensorimotor Therapy Part 1: What is Crisis?
By using what I have learned about trauma and the body in the early stages of Crisis Intervention, my hope is to help people process and integrate traumatic experiences and avoid long-term psychological symptoms.
Is Ketamine Assisted Therapy for Me?
A growing body of research highlights the many benefits of Ketamine including quick symptom relief, deeper emotional processing, neuroplasticity, and long-term emotional growth. With all the buzz about Ketamine, you may be wondering if KAP is for you.
How to Choose a Therapist
Here are my top tips for streamlining the search process and making good therapeutic choices! After all, the quality of the therapeutic relationship is the single most important ingredient to a healing course of treatment.
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