New Paths

06/05/2024

To paraphrase the author, the core of PTSD is disempowerment and disconnection. The primary task of healing PTSD is the rebuilding of reasonable, informed trust.
--Judith Herman, MD, from the book 'Trauma and Recovery.'
I cannot recommend this book enough!

01/25/2024

"Worry is actually a manageable, workable problem. The reason people have so much trouble with worry is that worry literally tricks you. It goads you, tricks you into responding in ways that you hope will help but which actually make your troubles more severe and more persistent." Dr. David Carbonell, The Worry Trick

05/20/2020

05/20/2020

What helps me when I'm frustrated? Knowing that emotions are signals, but they are NOT facts about the world!

05/20/2020

A concise summation: Fears and skeletons and memories of bad encounters leave you undeveloped and avoiding things. The psychoanalytic process is the careful encounter with those repressed elements of the self. The hope is that a clear encounter will redeem that part, and unite it with the remainder of your personality and make you stronger as a consequence.
--Dr. Peterson

03/04/2020

My therapy practice for anxiety and perinatal mental health has a new listing in Psychology Today. So happy!

Dolly (Or Darlene) Sundstrom, Counselor, Seattle, WA, 98125, (425) 357-7013, My therapy with clients focuses on reducing symptoms and building lifelong emotional resilience. I have deep experience in helping people overcome anxiety and in helping pregnant and postpartum mothers. My philosophy is tha...

03/04/2020

I have a new website!

www.DollySundstrom.com