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Julie Phelan, PhD, LAC
Licensed Associate Counselor and Social Psychologist
The Biology of Trauma
A helpful model for understanding the biology of the trauma response (at least, IMO).
Grounding Techniques
A list of practical ways to ground yourself when your thoughts are spiraling, emotions are running high, and/or you're dissociated.
Low Motivation Strategies
An evolving list of strategies that help my clients (and me) get shit done... even when we don't wanna.
Somatic Resources
An expanding list of somatic resources that help at least some of my clients reset their nervous system.
Emotions Around the Globe
A list of some of my favorite foreign-language emotion words for which there is no English equivalent
Visualizations
Descriptions of visualization techniques that seem to work well for many of my clients.
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