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Exploring EMDR Therapy: Healing Trauma through Eye Movement In the realm of mental health therapy, there exists a multitude of approaches designed to address various psychological issues. One such innovative method gaining recognition is Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy. EMDR is a powerful psychotherapy technique primarily utilized to alleviate symptoms of trauma and distress. With its unique approach centered around bilateral stimulation, EMDR has emerged as a promising tool in the arsenal of mental health professionals (Shapiro, 2001). EMDR has been transformative in my personal and professional journey. As someone who has struggled with past traumas, EMDR provided ... Read more

Combat-Related Trauma Assessment and Treatment Military personnel and their families are exposed to diverse stressors that challenge their psychological wellbeing.  These stressors include frequent relocations, deployments, separations from their families for extended periods of time, and subsequent reintegration, as well as physical and psychological traumas experienced in combat.  The common mental health issues associated with military trauma include posttraumatic stress disorder, suicide, depression, grief, substance use disorder, and intimate partner violence or child abuse.  Identifying the major tasks that military families face during reintegration of a returning service member allows the therapist a broader comprehension of its implications for all ... Read more

Development and maintenance of the client’s presenting problem Everyone experiences the occasional anxiety and panic attacks at one time or another, and it is a normal human experience and emotional and protective response system. Certain events or situations may trigger normal anxiety and panic occasionally. There are differences between anxiety attack and panic attack. A panic attack or fear is a response to an external, known threat. Anxiety is a reaction to an internal unknown threat such as excessive worrying an imminent danger, real or not. For some individuals, anxiety and panic become problematic or disordered when the symptoms are ... Read more

Risk and Protective Factors in Adolescence Adolescence is a transitional period where individuals experience physical, psychological, and social changes and developments as one progresses from childhood into adulthood. Due to the many changes, for some the adolescent phase can be challenging particularly with the presence of risk factors or lack of protective factors. Risk and protective factors affect adolescents’ mental, emotional, and behavioral development, as well as influence the probability of substance use disorder in this population. In this paper, various risk and protective factors, that impact adolescents’ development, will be identified. The relationship between risk/protective factors and the likelihood ... Read more

Mismatched Sexual Desires Sexuality is a complex interplay of multiple facets, including anatomical, physiological, psychological, developmental, cultural, and relational factors. These contribute to an individual’s sexuality in varying degrees at any point in time as well as developing and changing throughout the life cycle. In addition to the multiple factors involved in sexuality, there is the added complexity of the corresponding sexuality of the partner. The expression of a person’s sexuality is intimately related to his or her partner’s sexuality (Montgomery, 2008 pp. 50-51), Mismatched sexual desires can be distressful for the couple as well as the individual as it ... Read more

Counseling Theories and Techniques Etiology and maintenance of couples’ presenting problem Psychoanalytic theory views distress in relationships as a product of the couple’s individual unconscious processes, defenses, and transference. Unconscious processes are mental contents, not available to conscious awareness, which provide emotional holding and containment over each partner which they carry over to the current relationship. Defense mechanisms are an attempt to protect the self against danger, overwhelming or unacceptable affect and ideas. Transference is feelings, thoughts, patterns of behavior, originally experienced in relation to significant figures during childhood, redirected towards current relationship. Therefore, the couple’s experiences and feelings can ... Read more