KD HOLMES, MS, LPC, EMDR CERTIFIED

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When Attraction Becomes a Question: Understanding Sexual Orientation OCD (SO-OCD)

There's a particular kind of vertigo that comes from doubting something you never used to question. You wake up next to the partner you love, and instead of feeling anchored, a thought slices through: What if I'm not who I think I am? You replay a...

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Healing Deep Within: How DBR Helps the Body Let Go of What It Had to Hold

Sometimes you know you are ok, but your body does not believe you yet. You can be sitting in your car, lying in bed, talking to someone you love, or...

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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 piece is complex PTSD vs...

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KD Holmes, LPC and Somantics

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Can the Body Treat the Mind?

Conventionally, most people understand how the body operates: the brain acts as the central processor, generating commands that travel through the...

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Deep brain reorienting

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When EMDR Isn’t Enough: How DBR Reaches the Places Words Can’t

Change doesn’t only happen through talking. If you’ve had EMDR and felt that uncanny sense of relief-as if something inside you shifted without...

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When Love Feels Like a Question: Relationship OCD

There’s a kind of love that doesn’t bloom gently-it twists in your chest, tight and unrelenting. It’s not love’s absence that hurts, but the constant...

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Just Right OCD collage image

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When Just Right OCD Feels Like Survival

Do you often think or feel something’s off? Not dangerous, not dirty-just... wrong. The book isn’t crooked, but it isn’t straight enough. The...

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OCD image of contamination obsessions

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When Clean Doesn’t Feel Clean: Contamination OCD

There’s a kind of fear that hides in the ordinary. A doorknob. A grocery cart. The memory of a word. Contamination OCD is not about being tidy-it’s...

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When Certainty Becomes a Cage: Scrupulosity OCD

There’s a particular pain that comes not from sin itself, but from the fear of it. A weariness that settles into the bones, not from wrongdoing, but...

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Harm OCD image of disturbing thoughts

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Harm OCD: Why These Thoughts Don't Mean What You Fear They Do

Some fears arrive like thunderstorms-loud, visible, and unmistakable. Others creep in quietly, like fog-unwelcome, disorienting, and hard to explain....

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