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Ciaruffoli Counseling Services

Individual mental health counseling in a practice setting and spiritual guidance services. Accepting Highmark and Geisinger insurances.

11/06/2025

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08/05/2025

“Trauma victims cannot recover until they become familiar with and befriend the sensations in their bodies. Being frightened means that you live in a body that is always on guard. Angry people live in angry bodies. The bodies of child-abuse victims are tense and defensive until they find a way to relax and feel safe. In order to change, people need to become aware of their sensations and the way that their bodies interact with the world around them. Physical self-awareness is the first step in releasing the tyranny of the past.”

The Body Keeps Score by Bessel Van Der Kolk, M.D.

Begin your healing journey with your local mental health counselor, and learn ways to relax and address past traumas.

05/29/2025

Traumatized people.… feel separated from their bodies. One particularly good description of depersonalization comes from the German psychoanalyst Paul Schilder, writing in Berlin in 1928.

"To the depersonalized individual the world appears strange, peculiar, foreign, dream-like. Objects appear at times strangely diminished in size, at times flat. Sounds appear to come from a distance....

The emotions likewise undergo marked alteration. Patients complain that they are capable of experiencing neither pain nor pleasure.... They have become strangers to themselves."

From the book, “The Body Keeps the Score,” by Bessel Van Der Kolk, M.D.

If you are struggling with issues related to trauma, talk therapy may be an avenue to your healing.

11/21/2024

The ability to feel absolute darkness and being able to pull yourself out is true power.

06/06/2024

Polyvagal Theory

“The Polyvagal Theory provided us with a more sophisticated understanding of the biology of safety and danger, one based on the subtle interplay between the visceral experiences of our own bodies and the voice and faces of the people around us.

It explained why a kind face or a soothing tone of voice can dramatically alter the way we feel. It clarified why knowing that we are seen and heard by the important people in our lives, can make us feel calm and safe, and why being ignored or dismissed can precipitate rage reactions or mental collapse.

It helped us understand why focused attunement with another person can shift us out of disorganized and fearful states.”

“The Body Keeps Score” by Bessel Van Der Kolk, M.D.

Contact your local mental health therapist to begin your journey of healing from your trauma.

12/15/2023

Becoming one with the Tao is learning your process, and what obstacles block your path to self-understanding and self-growth.

11/13/2023

Find joy, then relish in its beautiful revelry. Speak to your local mental health counselor when joy is absent from your life.

07/02/2023

Our minds can create traps of self-doubt and resentments this lifetime. Learn ways to return to your center through talk therapy.

04/13/2023

You are always you. Be your best, but also be kind to yourself. Find balance within.

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675 Wyoming Avenue, Suite B
Kingston, PA
18704

Website

http://ciaruffolicounselingservices.weebly.com/

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