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Eating Disorders
Every person's eating disorder is as unique as a fingerprint, and there is no one size fits all approach to healing. The goal is to create an individualized and comprehensive treatment approach in collaboration with clients that will help them break the chains of restriction, emotional eating, bingeing and purging, over exercising and body image distress.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
EMDR is an extensively researched, effective psychotherapy method proven to help people recover from trauma and other distressing life experiences.
Stress responses are part of our natural fight, flight, or freeze instincts. 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.
Maternal Mental Health
Approximately 15% of all women will experience postpartum depression following the birth of a child and up to 10% will experience depression or anxiety during pregnancy. When the mental health of the mother is compromised, it affects the entire family. You are not alone and postpartum depression and anxiety are temporary and treatable with professional help.
About me.
I am a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist. I received my Master's in Clinical Psychology with an emphasis in Marriage and Family Therapy from Pepperdine University.
My training has been diverse; I have worked with adolescents, adults and families at both eating disorder and substance abuse facilities. I have also worked with clients in a wide variety of settings including residential treatment, partial hospitalization programs, intensive outpatient programs and private practice.
I have advanced training in treating trauma and have completed Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR) training through the Institute for Creative Mindfulness. The Institute for Creative Mindfulness is an EMDR International Association approved program (EMDRIA) and I continue to train with EMDRIA on advanced topics including treatment of eating disorders and postpartum disorders.
In addition to treating a variety of presenting issues including anxiety, depression and trauma, I have two specialty areas; eating disorders and maternal mental health. I hold a Certificate in Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders as well as a Certificate in Infertility for Mental Health Providers from the American Society for Reproductive Medicine.
Contact me.
lmft@taraegemo.com
619-865-4783