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Somatic Adjuncts to Polyvagal-Informed EMDR: Tools to Support Nervous System Regulation Between Sessions
As EMDR clinicians, we know that healing trauma isn’t just about accessing memories—it’s about helping clients stay within their window...
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Apr 162 min read
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5 Benefits of ongoing EMDR Consultation
You've completed your consultation hours and have your EMDR Basic Trained status, now what? You have the basic understanding of EMDR , the process and phases but is the investment in ongoing consultation of any benefit to you?
jcardozalmft
Apr 162 min read
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What can I expect in an EMDR Therapy Session?
EMDR therapy is a treatment approach based in the neurobiological understanding health and healing. It is an integrative, mind-body...
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Apr 164 min read
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Unpacking Unhelpful Thinking Styles: A Cognitive Behavioral Therapy -Informed Overview
Rooted in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), these styles are essentially mental habits—ways our minds try to make sense of the world, especially under stress. But left unchecked, they can cloud our perspective, increase anxiety, and limit our ability to respond with clarity and compassion.
jcardozalmft
Apr 163 min read
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Understanding the EMDR Therapy Journey to Healing
The EMDR Therapy Journey
EMDR therapy consists of eight phases, each integral to the healing process. Safety is the cornerstone of this journey, ensuring clients feel secure as they explore their experiences.
jcardozalmft
Apr 162 min read
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The Art and Science of EMDR: Lessons in Balance from 2024
Over the past year, I've been on a journey to explore the dynamic interplay between order and chaos in therapeutic work.
jcardozalmft
Jan 84 min read
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Exploring the Healing Power of Nature Mandalas: A Journey of Understanding Abundance through Apples
Nature Mandala inspired through Morning Altars tm practice About this Morning Altar ™ Mandala  Each altar that finds its way through my...
jcardozalmft
Oct 28, 20245 min read
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Exploring the Healing Power of Nature in Therapy: Benefits and Strategies
Morning Altars Therapuetic Nature Based Art Feeling part of something much larger than the self is music to our ears. This transformation...
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Feb 22, 20247 min read
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Discover the Power of Morning Altars: An Embodiment Practice
We are experiencing an epidemic of loneliness. This is multifaceted issue. We are experiencing so many losses of our daily routines, our rituals which create disconnection within ourselves. These are in addition to our losses in human to human connection. From a polyvagal lens, this has real impacts on our physical and emotional health.
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Nov 20, 20233 min read
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The Power of Polyvagal Theory and Vagus Nerve in Somatic and EMDR Therapy
Safety is not the absence of danger, it is the presence of connection. Dr. Gabor Mate Self-Regulation is an ongoing daily practice Some...
jcardozalmft
Apr 18, 20234 min read
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How can EMDR Therapy help individuals with OCD?
As there is may often a relationship of Trauma and OCD, EMDR can be utilized as a possible treatment option in a two-prong approach with OCD and Trauma. In my practice I offer ICBT for treatment of the OCD and then additionally work within the eight phases of EMDR working with a neurobiological approach in treatment of the trauma factors that may underlay or co-incide within the nervous system. Typically EMDR helps resolve traumatic material, can aid in desensitizing vulner
jcardozalmft
Apr 5, 20234 min read
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