Areas of Therapeutic Specialty

Our team is educated and trained to support your therapeutic journey across a variety of specialized mental health needs.

The word “trauma” is ubiquitous today, but it has a specific meaning: being confronted by an event that overwhelms our resources. Trauma freezes the body and mind at a particular point in time, resulting in the conditions known as Post-Traumatic Stress (PTS) and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). With patient work, it is possible to regain both physical and mental flexibility, and to build greater resilience. Post-traumatic growth occurs when we can derive meaning from our experiences.

Clinicians at Living Fully use a variety of modalities to address trauma, often working together to address a client’s needs. Our clinicians have worked extensively with individuals who have experienced emotional, physical, and sexual abuse in childhood, as well as with survivors of sexual assault.

Trauma and PTSD

Dr. Pegah Moghaddam

Rand Basma

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Everyone feels anxious or depressed at times. It is normal to experience anxiety, and to sometimes feel down or “blue,” in response to life events — especially when there doesn’t seem to be much “good” news in the world. But when anxiety becomes constant, and depression lingers, quality of life plummets.

Therapy can help.

Clinicians at Living Fully employ a spectrum of therapeutic modalities to break the cycle of depression and anxiety, which sometimes occur separately, and frequently appear together. In therapy, you can come to understand your habitual coping strategies and learn new ones; you can come to understand the ways that thoughts and emotions are interrelated; and can build greater resilience.

EMDR stands for Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing. It is a form of therapy that helps people heal from trauma or other distressing life experiences. EMDR therapy has been extensively researched and has demonstrated effectiveness for trauma and other mental health issues, including but not limited to: anxiety, depression, difficulty functioning, irritability, increased substance use, poor concentration, sleep disturbances, and stress.

When distress from a disturbing event remains, the upsetting images, thoughts, and emotions may create feelings of overwhelm, of being back in that moment, or of being “frozen in time.” EMDR therapy helps the brain process these memories and allows normal healing to resume. The experience is still remembered, but the fight, flight, or freeze response from the original event is resolved (source: EMDRIA.org)

Life rarely unfolds the way we imagine.  The person you were 20, 10, and 2 years ago may hardly resemble the person you are today in some or many ways.  Individually, this can be complicated enough.  In the messy complexity of deep, intimate relationships, this can be especially difficult.  Living Fully therapists support those navigating communication challenges, recurrent conflicts, lack of sexual intimacy, entrenched resentment, identity differences, betrayal, and more.

In relationship therapy, we can help you learn and embody compassionate communication as well as discover, express, and respond to underlying needs, pains, and longings. We can work to institute effective boundaries and build individual and relational lives that spark pride in who you are and excitement about what is to come.  And, in those cases when separation becomes necessary, we will guide a dignified and thoughtful separation process.

We affirm and support all forms of consensual relationships, including monogamous, polyamorous, and open relationships.

Loss is inherent to life. Every birth ends in death, every beginning has an ending. Though we know this, the reality of loss is challenging. When we confront a loss — of a job, a dream, or a person — we must come to terms with the meaning of that loss through the process of grieving.

Each instance of grief, and of grieving, is unique. If you feel stuck or paralyzed in your process of grieving, or if a loss feels too big to bear, therapy can support you.