Trauma Informed Counseling, Consultation, and Education
My Services
Mental Health Counseling
theThe journey towards mental health and wellness is unique for every person. There is no single model or technique that will be effective for every person at every point in their life.
Your work with me with involve collaboration and the use of powerful tools to reach your goals for long lasting change. You will learn tangible skills needed to process traumatic memories, clear negative beliefs, increase self-compassion, honor resiliency, and feel more safe within your own body. Our counseling relationship will be one focused on your autonomy, strength, and viewed as you being the expert of you. *Please note I am credentialed through the SonderMind platform for all insurances listed in the FAQ section. I utilize SonderMind for all billing services, virtual platform, and electronic health record system.
EMDR Consultation
I am a certified EMDR Therapist and Consultant in Training through the EMDR International Association (EMDRIA) under the guidance of Amber Stiles-Bodnar. I have been utilizing EMDR therapy as treatment modality since initially trained in 2016.
Areas of speciality related to consultation include:
- developmental trauma/complex PTSD
- working/assessing for dissociation
- recent event protocols
- restricted reprocessing (EMD, EMDr, EMDR)
- application of EMDR in different settings (agency vs. private practice)
- application of tangible hypnosis skills
- incorporate of other strategies (hypnosis/DBT) within standard protocol framework
- understanding and application of standard protocol/when to modify based on client needs
- strategies related to ego strengthening and increasing affect tolerance
- resetting affective circuits
For EMDR consultation scheduling, please visit: https://calendly.com/chaseharshbarger
Clinical Supervision
My clinical focuses include the treatment of childhood trauma and other adverse childhood experiences, complex PTSD, military trauma, LGBTQIA+ specific support needs, intimate partner violence, sexual assault, sexual abuse, and dissociation. I have extensive training in treatment modalities including EMDR, Ego-state, Attachment Focused, Mindfulness-based approaches, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), and clinical hypnosis.
CLINICAL SETTING EXPERIENCE
Throughout my career, I have had an opportunity to work in various clinical settings. My work includes experience in the following settings:
- Community correctional facility
- Outpatient Counseling Center
- Crisis intervention
- Board of developmental Disabilities
- Private Practice
- Community based counseling
Therapeutic Approaches
EMDR therapy
EMDR is an evidence-based psychotherapy of other psychiatric disorders, mental health problems, and somatic symptoms. The model on which EMDR is based, Adaptive Information Processing (AIP), posits that much of psychopathology is due to the maladaptive encoding of and/or incomplete processing of traumatic or disturbing adverse life experiences. This impairs the client’s ability to integrate these experiences in an adaptive manner. The eight-phase, three-pronged process of EMDR facilitates the resumption of normal information processing and integration. This treatment approach, which targets past experiences, current triggers, and future potential challenges, results in the alleviation of presenting symptoms, a decrease or elimination of distress from the disturbing memory, improved view of the self, relief from bodily disturbance, and resolution of present and future anticipated triggers
Clinical Hypnosis
Clinical hypnosis is a process of guiding a person into an absorbed, focused mental state, and then utilizing that state to elicit change in cognitive, behavioral, or physiological processes. This mind-body approach assists the client to go into a more focused state of mind (often called a “hypnotic state, relaxed focus or relaxed concentration”) to assist in learning more about themselves, improving health, and changing habits and thought patterns.
Brainspotting
Brainspotting is a brain-based trauma treatment modality that utilizes emotion-triggering points in the visual field as a means to access, experience, release, and heal emotional wounds. During brainspotting, waves of emotion are often experienced by the client until they naturally dissipate. The therapist attunes with the client offering support and validation of the client’s experience during the intervention. This is an ideal therapy for clients who have suffered from childhood trauma who may not have complete or specific memories, but instead struggle with emotions generated from their experience.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy) involves strategies to change a person’s negative thinking pattern. CBT recognizes that psychological problems often result from faulty or unhelpful ways of thinking and learned patterns of unhelpful behavior. Through CBT people will learn positive ways of coping with their stressors thereby relieving distress in their day to day lives. Beginning in childhood people develop certain core beliefs about themselves, others and the world around them. CBT helps you learn healthy ways of changing this type of thinking and developing an overall stronger sense of self.
Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT)
DBT (Dialectical Behavioral Therapy) is a type of cognitive behavioral therapy. Its emphasis is on teaching you how to live in the present, cope with stress, regulate emotions and improve relationships with others using sets of behavioral based skills/interventions.
