Watch Hill Therapy

02/15/2026

Don’t miss this unique in person training for therapists that work with dissociative clients.

02/12/2026

Dissociation defined with Brandon Gimbel of Northstar Behavioral Health

02/06/2026

Rest is a great intention, and is needed to heal, but it’s complex, just like everything else in healing from trauma.

02/03/2026

We are tied of people not seeing the shadows and also seeing them and doing nothing about it.

01/30/2026

Did you know that we work with children at Watch Hill Therapy? We have a child and teen space in Downtown Chicago and Ravenswood. Our child & teen therapists work with trauma, ADHD, AuDHD, Autsim, loss, anxiety, and depression.

A dysregulated or traumatized child may not be able to tell you what they’re feeling, what’s happened, or what they need, and often will communicate instead through behaviors that can be confusing or distressing to parents or caregivers.

Depending on the developmental age of the child at the onset of trauma, symptoms and signs will look different and may be more difficult to interpret. Trauma is always difficult to process verbally, and particularly in children this is difficult given the impact of the trauma on their development and likely a lack of awareness of the trauma.

Children look to others around them to know how to process emotions and respond to distress, and if they don’t have examples that align with their experiences they may become overwhelmed and turn inward or shut themselves off entirely.

Child Therapy is a way for children to express and work through their experiences and emotions at whatever level of consciousness they present. Play therapy also reinforces the child’s control over their own narrative and agency and choice in what is shared which can inherently be healing.

Check out our child and teen services! Link in bio or watchhilltherapy.com

01/22/2026

Our survival brains know what to do when we are faced with extreme overwhelm, pain, and terror.

01/19/2026

If childhood wasn’t safe, then you might know what it’s like to build a place to escape inside your mind to go when it didn’t feel safe to be present. Many people are still living on the inside because the world still isn’t safe. Dissociation saves us from the unbearable. It is life’s only escape that isn’t death.

01/05/2026

***This workshop is in person in downtown Chicago. It will not be recorded***

In this 6 hour in person CEU workshop, therapists will learn about the internal system of dissociative parts that complex trauma survivors bring to treatment and how to work with them. Learn how parts are defined and created by trauma and how to forge complex and meaningful relationships with them in trauma treatment. Learn some interventions for doing effective and safe memory work.

Presenters: Tovah Means, LMFT & Meredith Glick, LCSW. Victoria Doobay, Ph.D. gentle yoga

Link to register in bio!

12/19/2025

Freeze Mode 🥶❄️

12/10/2025

11/24/2025

Histories of trauma in one or both partners create layers of experience that are complex and nuanced. They require therapists to have a framework for understanding and facilitating work with both the spoken and the unspoken in the room.

Just as in trauma-informed individual therapy, in relationship work we privilege regulation in both the individual experiences in the room as well as in the relationship dynamic between partners. Using a phase oriented treatment, we hold a frame that helps folks find stability and increased safety in their relationships, in order to create lasting change.

Couples come to us entrenched in patterns that they have been deepening, for months and years - sometimes decades! In order to impact our clients’ cycles, we must work in the present to bring curiosity to and build capacity for shifting the ways in which folks both express their needs and longings, and respond to their partner’s needs and longing.

In our time together, we will use our understanding of the neurobiology of attachment and trauma to create a working framework for therapists working with couples. This workshop will include theory, experiential practice with intervention, and case study.

Link in Bio!!

11/21/2025