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Complex PTSD: When Trauma Is How Your Body Learned to Survive
Many new people come into my office asking the same question: Why am I not getting better? For many people, the missing...
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Can the Body Treat the Mind?
KD Holmes, MS, LPC & Tyler LaFleur RN, BSN, CPT, CEP, CFMP, MLAS: Sep 1, 2025
Conventionally, most people understand how the body operates: the brain acts as the central processor, generating...
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When EMDR Isn’t Enough: How DBR Reaches the Places Words Can’t
KD HOLMES, LPC, EMDR CERTIFIED, BTTI TRAINED: Aug 6, 2025
If you’ve ever had EMDR therapy for adult trauma processing and felt the strange relief of something shifting inside...
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When Love Feels Like a Question: Relationship OCD
KD HOLMES, LPC, EMDR CERTIFIED, BTTI TRAINED: Jul 21, 2025
There’s a kind of love that doesn’t bloom gently-it twists in your chest, tight and unrelenting. It’s not love’s...
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When Just Right OCD Feels Like Survival
KD HOLMES, LPC, EMDR CERTIFIED, BTTI TRAINED: Jul 21, 2025
Do you often think or feel something’s off." not dangerous, not dirty-just... wrong. The book isn’t crooked, but it...
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When Clean Doesn’t Feel Clean: Contamination OCD
KD HOLMES, LPC, EMDR CERTIFIED, BTTI TRAINED: Jun 12, 2025
There’s a kind of fear that hides in the ordinary. A doorknob. A grocery cart. The memory of a word. Contamination OCD...