by Amy Wilhelmi | Apr 22, 2026 | Uncategorized
The Thread Running Through This Series Across this 40-week series, one theme has appeared again and again: Healing is relational. Trauma often disrupts a person’s sense of safety in the world and within relationships. Survivors may learn to protect themselves through...
by Amy Wilhelmi | Mar 11, 2026 | Uncategorized
Mental health care has not always been safe for LGBTQ+ individuals. Historically, homosexuality and gender diversity were pathologized within psychological and psychiatric institutions. Conversion therapy practices attempted to alter sexual orientation or gender...
by Amy Wilhelmi | Nov 10, 2025 | Uncategorized
Why Love Feels Unsafe After Trauma For many trauma survivors, love doesn’t feel like safety—it feels like risk. You might long for closeness but freeze when someone gets too near. You might crave connection yet feel unworthy of it. These paradoxes aren’t signs of...
by Amy Wilhelmi | Aug 22, 2025 | Blogging, EMDR therapy, Sex Therapy, trauma therapy
Rewiring the Past: EMDR and the Power of Memory Reconsolidation You survived. You made it through.So why does a smell, a glance, or even a moment in bed still send your body into panic? Because trauma doesn’t live in the past—it lives in the present tense of the...
