Women Thrive Counseling & Consulting is an EMDR specialty practice dedicated to helping the lives of ALL women, birthing parents, adoptive parents, young children, consultees, and trainees.

Why “Women Thrive”?

Let’s face it: though great strides have been made, society is still not always a safe or empowering space for women and girls. Sexual violence, intimate partner violence, impossible beauty standards and “bounce back” culture, sexual harrassment and discrimination in workspaces, gaslighting from medical professionals, politicians making medical decisions for our bodies—all of these lived experiences continue to remain prevalent. The traumatic stress from this builds overtime, to the point that cisgender women, trans women, and folks with vaginas & vulvas are operating every day from a place of sheer survival. Our goal at Women Thrive is to help women and girls get from just surviving in their lives to thriving in their lives.

Our Mission, Vision, and Values

Our Mission

The mission of Women Thrive Counseling & Consulting is to provide a trauma-informed space for folks to process their experiences free of judgment, bias, and discrimination.

Our Vision

Our vision at Women Thrive Counseling & Consulting is to provide quality EMDR focused services to our clients, supervisees, consultees, and trainees. Our focus is on EMDR therapy because we believe in the effectiveness and value that EMDR therapy can provide to helping individual thrive and the therapeutic alliance.

Our Values

At Women Thrive Counseling & Consulting, we value honesty, integrity, respect, and humility; these values are especially important in our relationships with our clients, supervisees, consultees, trainees, the EMDR practitioner community, our local communities, and the field of mental healthcare. Further, we value the ethical codes of our disciplines, diversity, equity, inclusion, accessibility, representation, and empowering the voices of ALL women and girls.

When we say trauma-informed, we truly mean trauma-informed.

There are lots of folks out there providing services that say they’re trauma-informed, but some of them aren’t actually “walking the walk.” At Women Thrive, we take pride in ensuring everyone has a truly trauma-informed experience. We do so by:

  1. recognizing trauma is a subjective experience unique to each individual;

  2. eliminating the common classification of “big T” and “little t” trauma;

  3. understand that traumatic stress, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), and complex PTSD are more than just mental health concerns, but rather neurological concerns that affect our central nervous system and biological functions of our bodies; and,

  4. recognizing that each individual has agency and choice over their own bodies, making informed decisions about their bodies, and holding space to empower individuals in making decisions for themselves and their bodies.