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Touchstone-Moment: a defining experience that serves as an internal anchor, or core memory- a pivotal moment

Touchstone- Principle: core concept, reliable rule to judge the authenticity of something- dating back to literal the stones used to test gold's authenticity

Touchstone Counseling LLC

with Emily Moore, MS, LPC, NCC

Somatic & Attachment Focused

(SAFE) EMDR Certified

Trauma-Informed Therapy for Adults

plus Boutique Studio Services

Touchstone Counseling specializes in concerns related to:

Trauma/ EMDR, Healthy Relationships, Adult ADHD, Parenting / Perinatal Mental Health, Childhood Wounds, Chronic Pain, Anxiety, Perfectionism, Stress, OCD, Grief, Creating & Maintaining Healthy Patterns, and more

Anxiety, Stress & Perfectionism

"This is load bearing anxiety!" You've tried everything and you're still struggling to balance your life without total chaos or complete collapse (or both!)? At Touchstone Counseling, you'll learn how to have a different relationship with your patterns of anxiety and stress management so your whole system is working in alignment

Healthy Relationships

Maybe you're questioning what a healthy relationship even is, much less how to create one. Relationships from the past that have left you wondering what you did wrong despite everything you you Maybe you're questioning what a healthy relationship even is, much less how to create one. Relationships from the past that have left you wondering what you did wrong despite everything you tried to do right. Feeling like you never had a blueprint for what healthy relationships can or should be. Touchstone Counseling will guide you to learn how to trust your own blueprint. to learn how to trust

Adult ADHD

Whether you were diagnosed as an adult, or have carried the diagnosis with you since childhood, you know it’s not always something that’s outgrown. If you find yourself struggling with the intersections of life pressures and executive functioning as an adult, you’re not alone. Here you’ll learn the roots of your patterns and unique strategies to reach your goals while living by your values

Perinatal Mental Health
& Parenting

New parents, veteran parents, soon-to-be-parents, (dads, you too!) wishing-to-be-parents, adoptive-parents, All phases of parenting can bring up stuff! Touchstone Counseling provides a safe space to explore your past, present, and future and the tools you need to know and live in alignment with your parenting-values.

Chronic Pain

Whether you know the origins to your chronic pain or not, living with chronic pain can be as emotionally painful as it is physically painful creating an isolating feedback loop. Using safe somatic and EMDR tools at your pace, we will work together to disentangle the emotional knots tied to your physical pain

Grief

The five stages of grief are not linearly moved through. There's no way around it- all change, even good change, involves grief. Loss of the ways things were, loss of the familiar and known. Building new pathways means deconstructing what is known to rebuild what could be. Each movement toward healthy growth involves breaking old muscle to rebuild stronger.

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Boutique Studio Services

EMDR
Extended Sessions
& Intensives

Often, one clinical hour is just enough time to barely scratch the surface of the amazing work that is possible, which is why Touchstone Counseling's Boutique Studios offers extended sessions (1.5+ hours) and intensive sessions (3+ hours). These longer formats allow for a more natural pace to create lasting change.

Kintsugi
Flower Arranging
Body Doubling
& More

The opposite of depression isn't happiness - it's expression. One-on-one or in group settings, I offer Kintsugi (the art of mending broken pottery with gold), flower arranging, body doubling for adhd and executive functioning, and more.

Boutique - offering highly specialized products;

part of, or within a larger department

Studio - a space to prepare for the rigors of building sets of skills requiring

a continuity of practice to achieve growth and mastery of expression.

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Somatic- related to or affecting the physical body

Attachment- how early childhood patterns & relationships affect you today

Somatic & Attachment Focused EMDR

trauma, Trauma
& TRAUMA

Trauma is anything that overwhelms our ability to cope.

Trauma often bring to mind

Big T traumas that threaten our (or our loved one's) physical safety like:

.War, or other near-death experiences .Witnessing or experiencing physical violence;

.Car accidents or medical emergencies, .Death of a loved one.

But other distressing "life-quakes," like:

.Relationship betrayals / infidelities

.Divorce or significant breakups

.Job loss

.Difficulty transitioning after major life change like moving or retirement

Unprocessed trauma (big or small) can activate our survival instincts fight, flight, (or freeze, or flock, or fawn)

Living with unprocessed trauma may look like becoming easily anxious, wanting to isolate from others, or just struggling to relax and engage in healthy care for yourself.

Luckily, our brain is changeable, and EMDR is an effective therapy that helps rewire the brain so that bad memories can be safely stored in the past, and no longer reactivated in the present.

Sometimes the people who are supposed to keep you safe, harm you.

Sometimes the people love you most respond to your trauma in a way that hurts as bad, or worse, than the trauma itself. Sometimes trauma isn’t a single bad event that happened- sometimes it’s a lot of small things that did, or didn’t, happen (especially during childhood) that lead to our current patterns.

SAFE EMDR holistically identifies your patterns (often from childhood) of staying safe and connected (or trying to) to the important people in your life, and the resources you need to update your system and feel safe enough in your body to practice new patterns to for a healthier present and future.

We’ll practice in-your-body resources to learn the language of your internal ecosystem as we learn the tools you need to increase your window of tolerance before identifying and reprocessing distressing elements or memories from the past using the standard protocol.

Parts Work

Based on the science-backed understanding that we are complex beings with complex neural networks and neural bundles due to our experiences.

We'll explore what you need to feel balanced and in control of your whole self

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About Me

1. As Your Therapist

With a blend of humor and compassion, we'll identify your strengths, practice resources to increase balance in your life, and navigate distressing moments so your present and future are responsive to your values, not just reactive to past survival needs.

I integrate other best-practices and therapeutic approaches, like "parts work" (ego state, polyvagal theory, IFS), Dialectical Behavioral Therapy and Exposure Response and Prevention. I regularly participate in trainings and consultations to help you safely access your most authentic self and needs.

I'm dedicated to furthering my education and training which allows me to look beyond traumatic events to understand how the emotional and physical relationships with self and others are affected and the best ways to safely rewire the brain.