LMHC, 6 years of experience
Hi, I'm Harlan. I specialize in working with combat veterans, healthcare workers, and first responders. Spending time in high stakes situations—where awful things happen without notice, and errors can have major consequences—often impacts the spirit and the nervous system. If you're having problems with intrusive memories, trouble sleeping, anger, feeling mistrustful and on guard where you used to feel safe, nightmares, anxiety, etc., I can help. There are some hard experiences in life from which we can recover well on our own, and there are others where we are most likely to heal and recover well with skilled emotional/psychological support.
I share a combination of here-and-now skills to navigate the challenges, stressors, triggers, and/or difficult emotions that have been arising as you move through your life, and employ a number of evidence-based, trauma-focused practices combined with deep empathetic listening to help process and integrate the memories that still create emotional turbulence.
As a two-tour Iraq war vet, I know this terrain both experientially and from over a decade of study and clinical work. I will be a knowledgeable and compassionate guide and helper as you process and heal from the things from your life that require support to be able to fully integrate. Facing what hurts is difficult, but worth it, and it's easier with help.
Many folks who come to see me have found themselves in a position where they feel like things are crashing in around them and they no longer know which way is up. Their life used to be in order, but then something happened, and now things that used to be just right don't even make sense.
Acceptance and commitment therapy gives a great framework for working towards greater psychological flexibility
EMDR provides powerful ways of helping the nervous system process traumatic memories to a state that doesn't create such tumultuous emotions.