Living Free Therapy
ALLISON MCDONALD, LMFT
SERVICES OFFERED
WHAT ALL DOES ALLISON TREAT?
Allison treats depression, anxiety, self-hate, PTSD, C-PTSD, addictive behaviors, addiction already in recovery, relapse prevention, self-harm, eating-disorders (not requiring medical assistance), relationship conflict, relationship struggles, domestic violence victims, trauma bonding, unresolved childhood trauma and many more alike.
WHAT ARE MY TREATMENT OPTIONS?
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Traditional Talk Therapy
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TF-CBT and Narrative
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SomEx
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EMDR
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Brain Spotting
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DBT
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and more
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EYE MOVEMENT DESENSITIZATION AND REPROCESSING (EMDR)
EMDR is an experiencial structured therapy technique used to reprocess the possible fears, negative core beliefs, or meanings attached to past negative or present negative experiences to improve present day. EMDR does this by bi-lateral eye movement. It is a highly successful form of trauma therapy.
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BRAIN SPOTTING (BSP) THERAPY
BSP is a powerful focus based therapy technique that assists in identifying and releasing core somatic and neurophysiological symptoms of trauma. BSP aims to reduce or change PTSD symptoms, automatic defense mechanisms, automatic thoughts, negative core beliefs, and more. It is highly affective and requires little preparation.
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SENSORY MOTOR EXPRESSIVE ART THERAPY
Sensory Motor Expressive Art Therapy is a creative form of guided art therapy using bi-lateral movement of hands with color to express thoughts, feelings, or experiences. No art experience with art is needed. This is a more creative and illustrative form of deeper level processing.
SOMEX THERAPY
SomEx Therapy is a somatic experiential, body focused therapy
technique practiced to expand the body’s natural way of releasing the stored survival tension frustrated by a traumatic event(s). Somatic Experiences uses our body’s natural responses to self-protect and develops them further to be a resource to use in every day or traumatic stressors. Somatic Experiencing is effective at treating and calming the symptoms of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Anxiety, Depression, Abuse Survival, negative core beliefs, and so much more.
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Allison McDonald, LMFT has been trained in both module 1 and module 2 of SomEx, in process of becoming fully certified.
TRAUMA-FOCUSED COGNITIVE BEHAVIORAL THERAPY (TF-CBT)
TF-CBT is a verbal form of reprocessing trauma by using stroy telling and challenging the story people tell themselves about negative expereinces. TF-CBT also focuses on developing self-awareness, implementing new cognitive and physical coping skills, changing cognitive distortions, and so much more. TF-CBT does this by
DIALECTICAL BEHAVIORAL THERAPY (DBT)
DBT is a type of verbal therapy that focuses on implementing strategies for challenging assumptions, addressing internal and external conflicts, how to accept and adjust to difficult realities, and so much more.
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