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Rebuilding Self-Trust After Religious Trauma
Religious trauma can leave you doubting your emotions, your choices, and your sense of self. This post explores how therapy helps you rebuild self-trust and reconnect with your inner wisdom through trauma-informed approaches like EMDR and ACT.
Setting Boundaries with Religious Family: A Guilt-Free Guide
If your family remains in a religious environment that wounded you, setting boundaries can feel impossible—but it also can feel essential. This practical guide helps you navigate emotional boundaries, cultivate relational safety, and manage the guilt that often comes with challenging and redefining family norms.
Understanding Anxiety After Leaving High-Pressure Environments
Leaving a high-pressure environment doesn’t automatically quiet the anxiety it created. Learn how old fear patterns can persist long after you’ve left and how therapy for chronic anxiety can help you rebuild safety, calm, and trust in yourself.
Healing from Purity Culture: Releasing Shame and Reconnecting to Your Body
If you were a teen who internalized the teachings of purity culture you might now be an adult who feels disconnected from your body, ashamed of desire, or uncertain of your worth. This blog explores how therapeutic support can help you reclaim bodily trust, redefine healthy intimacy, and heal sexual shame. I use a trauma-informed, individualized approach to therapy for sexual shame and purity culture trauma.
Anxiety Therapy in Denver: Finding Space to Breathe
Anxiety can feel overwhelming, exhausting, and unrelenting—but finding relief doesn’t have to be a solo project. Learn what anxiety therapy in Denver involves, how EMDR and ACT can help, and how personalized support from a trusted therapist can help you feel more grounded, clear-headed, and in control of your day-to-day life.
Why EMDR Might Be Right for You — Even If You’ve Tried Talk Therapy Before
If you’ve tried talk therapy but still feel stuck, EMDR can help your mind and body finally process what’s been keeping you from moving forward. Learn how this approach supports deeper healing and what EMDR therapy in Denver can look like.
Therapy for Religious Trauma Helps You Reclaim Your Voice
Religion and spirituality can bring connection and purpose, but harmful faith experiences can leave lasting fear and shame. Therapy for religious trauma at Golden Hour Counseling helps adults in Denver and online process these wounds, rebuild self-trust, and reclaim their voice using EMDR and ACT in a safe, personalized, trauma-informed space.
EMDR for Anxiety: Break Free from Overthinking
Have you ever caught yourself replaying conversations or worrying about every possible outcome? Anxiety can make your mind feel stuck on a loop, exhausting both your body and your mind. EMDR therapy for anxiety helps quiet racing thoughts, calm physical tension, and reshape the beliefs that fuel overthinking.
You’re Not Lazy: What High-Functioning Depression Looks Like in Women
You look like you’ve got it all together — but inside, you’re unraveling. High-functioning depression is real. Here’s why it gets missed — and what to do next.
What is EMDR? A brief explainer and how to tell if EMDR is right for you
You might have heard of EMDR, but you may be wondering: What exactly is it, and how can it help me? Whether you're struggling with anxiety, low self-esteem, or trying to heal from past experiences, EMDR might be exactly what you need to start feeling better and reclaim your peace of mind.
Coping with News Anxiety: 5 Tips for Managing Anxiety in a World of Constant Headlines
To say the news these days is anxiety-producing is an understatement. Every day seems to bring with it a barrage of breaking news headlines that can cause even the most level-headed among us to spin out.
If you find yourself struggling to stay informed because the news easily overwhelms you and increases your anxiety, I have five tips for you.
