Licensed to practice in California and accepts 9 insurances. Specializes in Addiction, Trauma and PTSD, First Responders/Healthcare Workers
(she/her)
New to Grow
Hello, I am Emily Donahue, Trauma Therapist. My passion has been to assist and support individuals on their healing paths and recovery. I have worked with those with trauma and the fall out from those experiences; addiction, codependency, anger, life goals, fear, guilt, scare. I have seen individuals gain insight and have aha moments. Trauma is only one aspect of your life, come find out about the rest!
For our first session, I will introduce myself, go over a few items and then invite you, the client to decide how best to move forward. There are some folks that like to share and then some that prefer a more structured meeting, or a mixture of both. It is up to you. The stories inside of you are yours to decide who gets to hear. There are no prerequisites other than showing up.
I am compassionate, hopeful and love the courage and strength that comes through each and everyone of us.
I invite anyone in that has had the courage to call me and then to make the first session. These are the two hardest steps for anyone contemplating change. Ideally, those individuals that have come forward learn that they have made the first step for themselves, and that they find the worth of themselves, others, humanity. This is hard work.
I identify as
Trauma Informed Care
My approach to trauma is to introduce the idea of how what has happened to someone affects them on many different levels; choice, actions, thoughts, feelings, and that a person can learn how to live with the past and to move forward to live in the present. I go at the individual's level, and what this person shares is up to them. Skills and strategies are also an exciting part, to re-train the body and the brain.
Psychoeducation
I believe everyone has a capacity to learn about how they work. Self awareness can invite reflection and pauses before doing something that is hinged on thoughts or feelings, based in trauma. I introduce ideas that many are not aware of, how trauma affects all the different systems in the body. And that with this knowledge comes the power to change.
Grief Therapy
Grief is a difficult passing, a transition from what life was to never being the same again. Humans have built in resiliency to passings, its survival at its best. Grief can provide insight and to open doors that were once too painful to look at. Grief can introduce the idea, that we will survive and flourish. Without grief, we stay stuck in the same patterns.