What's Makes Your Identity: Understanding Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)

Attachment theory sees the human spirit as being inherently relational - seeking social and intimate bonding with those around us. EFT prioritizes emotional regulation as the key ingredient in navigating one’s individual experience and their relational interactions. EFT is seen to be most effective in working with couples, but is also frequently used to treat anxiety, depression, and post-traumatic stress.
- Prerna Menon, LMSW, CTP

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Healing through Movement: Understanding Dance Movement Therapy

To know ourselves is to listen to our bodies. Our bodies hold so much wisdom and guidance that when we listen and connect, our bodies can guide us through deep transformation. Have you ever seen a piece of art, watched a dance performance or listened to a song that emotionally held you and resonated with your emotional process? Various art forms have the power to speak deeply to our experience in ways words sometimes can not.
- Noelani Rodriguez, LCAT, RDMT

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Moving through Life Transitions: Integrating New & Authentic Parts of Self through Dance Movement Therapy

Do you sometimes find it challenging to put words to your emotional experience? Are words sometimes not precise in what your body and soul are experiencing? Every day we move through our world and our lives with so much demand on our bodies and minds, frequently leaving little room for us to be with ourselves fully and compassionately.
- Noelani Rodriguez, LCAT, RDMT

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Emotional Pain: Why Does My Body Hurt When My Feelings Are Hurt?

Have you ever experienced sadness or anger and felt it in your gut or chest? Ever heard people in your life say “that was gut-wrenching” or “my heart hurts”?. These phrases are more than just metaphorical explanations of somebody’s experience - they are emotional AND physical experiences that one is having. Research studies have found that the brain regions that light up when one is experiencing emotional pain, are the same brain regions that light up when one is experiencing physical pain.
- Prerna Menon, LMSW, CTP

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Internal Family Systems: Understanding Your Inner World

All human beings have one commonality, we all share the same nervous system. But our experiences, interactions, and trauma lead to us developing 3 crucial parts or neural networks. Parts that protect us from suffering, parts that react to suffering, and parts that carry pain and suffering. Internal Family Systems Therapy helps you access the self - your higher consciousness and equip it with the tool to observe all these parts, and orchestrate them to live harmoniously.
- Prerna Menon, LMSW, CTP

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An Open Letter to Moms Needing Postpartum Support

If you’re treading water and uncertain how long you can keep going, let therapy be a sandbar. Solid beneath your feet. Forgiving. Let’s stand on it together. We will work together to soften and heal what is urgent – terrifying thoughts that leave you speechless, hopelessness that sinks you. We will explore what it’s like to shepherd a life.
- Lexi Garber, LMSW

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The World of Dating: South Asian Adults

The moralism which is sometimes associated with dating and marriage in South Asian culture may cause young adults to face challenges as they begin to form romantic relationships. The absence of open dialogue in some South Asian families around intimate partners, sexuality, feelings and consent can often leave individuals entering the world of dating feeling overwhelmed and confused

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Somatic Experiencing: The Body Remembers

Somatic Experiencing is informed by science that indicates that all human beings have a capacity to triumph over trauma. Practitioners of this therapeutic method believe that trauma is curable, and the healing process can often serve as a catalyst for deep emotional awakening, and spiritual transformation. Somatic Experiencing equips folks with the self-sustaining tools to regulate their emotions with integrity and balance.

- Prerna Menon, LMSW, CTP

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Welcome to Repose.

At Repose, we’re dedicated to yoking the mind, body, and spirit. We empower you with the tools to access conscious relaxation to help you recover from chronic stress and manage anxiety, depression, and trauma. Our mission is to guide you in developing resilience and accessing self-knowledge; to overcome challenges and make positive changes in your life.

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Mary Breen