Family estrangement is on the rise, and headlines blame therapy. A trauma therapist explains what really happens when estrangement comes up in the room.

IFS and EMDR are often used together, and the blend has a name: IFS-informed EMDR. A trauma therapist explains how we decide where to start, what a combined session looks like, and who benefits from both.

Calm, curiosity, compassion, clarity, confidence, courage, creativity, connectedness - what the 8 C's of IFS mean and how therapy brings them back.

An IFS therapist explains managers, firefighters, and exiles - the protective parts we all carry - and the calm Self that sits beneath them.

A therapist explains parts work - the inner voices we all have, where they come from, and how therapy befriends them instead of fighting them.

There is a place inside you where life feels workable. Not easy, not always calm — but workable. Your shoulders sit a little lower. Your breath finds its own rhythm. You can read a difficult email without your stomach dropping for the rest of the afternoon. Therapists call this place the window of tolerance.

At Shifting Tides Therapy, the idea that life moves in waves is key. The human experience is a journey through the ever-changing tides.

Addressing the eight stages of EMDR therapy, how long EMDR lasts, and whether you can do EMDR on yourself.