Attachment Styles: The Key to Forming Healthy Relationships

In our previous blog Attachment Styles and How We Relate to Otherswe talked about four main ways in which we tend to form our relationships and try to satisfy our emotional needs 

  • secure
  • preoccupied
  • fearful-avoidant
  • dismissing-avoidant

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Healing Old Wounds with EMDR: How to Live After, Not Just Survive Childhood Abuse

When we think of survivors of childhood abuse, and especially of sexual abuse in childhood, we often imagine than it had to be inconceivably difficult for them to endure such suffering, but now that they’re adults, they’re safe and well. We do recognize that they might have been affected by the horrible experience, but rarely think of them as constantly reliving the past abuse as it were happening right now, at this very moment, with the same horror and helplessness as then. But they do. (more…)

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Types of Sexual Abuse and Where to Turn for Help

Sexual abuse is a topic pretty much no one wants to think about, let alone talk about, though it happens every single day. How many times on the news do you see a formerly respected individual hiding behind their hands, being led to a police car with a headline about suspected child pornography or molestation charges? Often. (more…)

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Scrolling, Scrolling, Scrolling : How to Stop the Cycle

Guilty As Charged : Addicted To Scrolling

You do it. I do it. You might even be doing it now. “Scrolling.” It’s a phenomenon that many of us have grown up with. When I was a kid, the Internet wasn’t yet commercially viable and when people called on the phone, you would have no choice but to (gasp!) answer without knowing who it was! The pressure! The (potentially) awkward conversation! Yes. The struggle was, as they say, “real.” (more…)

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EMDR Therapy

Stephen Rodgers Counseling – EMDR Therapy in Denver Specialized for Men 

Many of us have had a traumatic experience in our lives whether it be sexual abuse, negative family experiences, childhood abuse, bullying, a car accident, loss of a loved one, war, poverty or an intense health scare.

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10 Signs of Depression in Men

Today’s blog is on a topic very important to me and my practice. It’s a topic I am passionate about. Clinical depression affects more than 6 million men in the U.S. Our beloved state of Colorado has a very high rate of suicide among men as compared to the rest of the country. (more…)

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