Description:
For many people, depression is driven by an underlying trauma--and in order to effectively treat their depression they must first address the source. Written by a psychologist and based in cutting-edge eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) therapy, this book offers a comprehensive approach to help readers resolve and release traumatic memories, build a greater sense of confidence and connection, and rediscover hope.
Brief description:
Lara Barbir, PsyD, is a clinical psychologist and founder of Transcendent Therapy in California. She also holds a faculty appointment with The Chicago School of Professional Psychology. Through her clinical work, teaching, speaking, and training, she is on a mission to create a world of more emotionally secure parents and future generations. She is particularly passionate about using eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) and interpersonal psychotherapy approaches with higher-functioning adults and teens struggling with depression, complex trauma/post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), anxiety, insomnia, and chronic pain. Prior to starting her private practice, she worked in the VA hospital setting for more than six years. She received her doctorate in counseling psychology from Radford University in Virginia.
Review Quotes:
"Lara Barbir shows us, with clarity and depth, the connection between trauma and depression. Thanks to her reassuring style, we find out we are not to blame when we feel bad. We discover that self-acceptance is not an impossible dream but a skill we can learn. We see how eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) takes all that we are and have experienced and makes it unconditionally workable. Then trauma is not a dead end, but a door."
--David Richo, PhD, author of Triggers