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Essential Trauma Concepts

Setting Boundaries During the Holiday Season

Heading into the holiday season can bring with it a multitude of conflicting feelings, particularly when caregivers or other family members were the source of painful or invalidating experiences. […]
Trauma in the Media

Book recommendation: “You’ll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey: Crazy Stories About Racism”

This fall, we were pleased to be able to offer the workshop “Do No Harm: Utilizing an Anti-Racist Lens as a Psychotherapist” with Richla Davis. The two part workshop addressed […]
Community Events

CCIH Welcomes New Community Members

We’d like to introduce you to the four new therapists who have joined our workplace here at CCIH! We are so glad to have Jenny, Christy, Nancy, and Hannah be […]
COVID-19

The Stress Response Doesn’t Stop at “Fully Vaccinated”

As healthcare and governmental organizations have suddenly shifted the masking requirements of the pandemic, I have found myself saying some version of this over and over to my clients: the anxiety, panic, overwhelm, exhaustion, shut down, grief, and loneliness you are feeling right now makes sense.
COVID-19, Trauma-Informed Care

Coming Back Into Connection

As a trauma therapist, I utilize a body-centered approach with my clients. This means, understanding and respecting the impact of trauma on the body and our physiological states and how […]
Anti-Oppression

Using Gender-Neutral Language Is Not Optional

Today I was browsing Fat Positive Cooperative, a site that connects people with fat acceptance and fat positive resources, and a post by trans, nonbinary and fat activist J Aprileo […]
COVID-19, Trauma-Informed Care

How Our Inner Critic Acts Up In Times of Stress

As a therapist to clients during an unprecedented time, a worldwide pandemic, a modern civil rights movement, an intensely divided political climate, I have a unique privilege to witness and […]
Anti-Oppression, Essential Trauma Concepts

CCIH Statement on Racial Trauma

We at CCIH find ourselves compelled to reflect on what it means to be a trauma-informed therapist during the current times. The pandemic has shone an ugly light on the […]
Essential Trauma Concepts

Notes From a New Clinician

As a new clinician interested in working with survivors of complex trauma and dissociation, insight from experienced practitioners is invaluable to me. Recently, I connected with Amy Zajakowki Uhll, LCPC, […]