Create Your Life
Catherine Chapman, Counseling
Online or In-Person Therapy - Waitlist Only
Even on the best of days, life can be challenging.
If you have experienced trauma and/or loss at any point in your life, your ability to manage the 'normal' stressors of life
can become greatly diminished. Physical health can deteriorate. Mental health issues can either show up, or flare up.
Life can go from challenging to unbearable fairly quickly. That's where therapy can be helpful.
Feeling 'stuck', hopeless, or 'crazy' means something needs to shift...something needs to be resolved.
Here's a few of the life stressors I specialize in helping adults work through.
The physical, mental, sexual, emotional, and spiritual symptoms that follow a traumatic incident can leave survivors feeling completely out of their own control. Sexual abuse, rape, physical abuse, neglect, inappropriate and/or unwanted touch, and emotional abuse all leave tremendous scars and after-effects. The body can become overwhelmed... (For more, click here.)
It happens to everyone at some point, but still there is no way to fully prepare for it. The unthinkable. The potential loss you never wanted to acknowledge. The loss that never even crossed your mind as a possibility. And you find yourself completely side-swiped by unrelenting grief... (For more, click here.)
Despite living in the most LGBTQ-friendly era in American history, living authentically as lesbian, gay, bisexual, and/or trans can still be a highly stressful experience. LGBTQ people who are from religious/conservative communities are many times faced with the possibility of losing everything. Individuals who come out later in life struggle through a complete identity and community change. It is hard work to make these types of life changing transitions... (For more, click here.)
Whether we like it or not, our family of origin comes with us into adult life in the form of automatic thoughts, beliefs, worldview, behaviors, attitudes, political leanings, religious training, and how we view ourselves. Many people move through life without examining their inner world. Instead, they just go with everything they learned at home. The majority of people could benefit from taking a thoughtful look at the continuing influences... (For more, click here.)
Other Offerings
In addition to the above, I also have training in EMDR which is used to treat trauma. I also work with individuals experiencing Complex-PTSD and/or Dissociative Disorders.
I work with parents who have children with disabilities, individuals who have experienced religious/spiritual abuse, and patients with differing forms of dementia and their families.