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Trauma
Stay informed about trauma and related conditions with news and updates from clinical experts. Scientific information, evidence-based treatments, and more.


Phase-Based Trauma Therapy: Why Stabilization Comes Before Processing
Learn why trauma therapy stabilizes your nervous system before processing memories, and how our Tennessee telehealth team paces EMDR-based care safely.

Kiesa Kelly
Jul 1212 min read


Grounding Emotional Flashbacks: Step-by-Step | ScienceWorks
Emotional flashbacks hit with no memory attached. Learn a clinician's step-by-step grounding protocol to calm one in the moment, and when to seek care.

Kiesa Kelly
Jul 310 min read


Brainspotting vs. EMDR: Key Differences and How to Choose
Brainspotting vs. EMDR: how these two effective, eye-based trauma therapies compare, and how to choose the right fit for you - telehealth in Tennessee.

Kiesa Kelly
Jul 28 min read


What to Expect in a Brainspotting Session | ScienceWorks
What to expect in a Brainspotting session, step by step: finding the brainspot, how it feels, and how it works online. Gentle, guided trauma care - telehealth in Tennessee.

Kiesa Kelly
Jul 26 min read


What Is Brainspotting Therapy? How It Works
Brainspotting is a powerful, body-based trauma therapy that reaches distress held below words. Learn how it works, what a session involves, and who it may fit - telehealth in Tennessee.

Kiesa Kelly
Jul 26 min read


How Long Does Complex Trauma Therapy Take? | ScienceWorks
Complex trauma therapy usually takes several months to more than a year. Here are the three recovery phases, honest timeline ranges, and what lengthens or shortens the road — plus how telehealth trauma care works in Tennessee.

ScienceWorks Team
Jul 113 min read


Emotional Flashbacks in Complex PTSD: Signs & Causes
You are standing in your own kitchen, or sitting in a routine work meeting, and out of nowhere you are flooded with fear, shame, or a bottomless sense that something is wrong. There is no image, no clear memory, no obvious cause.

Kiesa Kelly
Jun 2012 min read


EMDR vs Somatic Experiencing: Which Therapy Fits
EMDR reprocesses a specific memory; somatic experiencing regulates the nervous system. A clinician's even-handed guide to how the two trauma therapies differ, what the evidence shows, and how to choose.

Kiesa Kelly
Jun 1714 min read


Your First EMDR Session: What to Expect | ScienceWorks
Your first EMDR session is a conversation, not reprocessing — Phase 1 history-taking and the start of preparation. Here is what actually happens, how to prepare, and what a first remote EMDR session in Tennessee is like.

Ryan Burns
Jun 1711 min read


Complex PTSD vs PTSD: What Makes Trauma Complex
PTSD and complex PTSD share the same trauma roots and core symptoms, but complex PTSD adds lasting struggles with emotion, self-worth, and relationships. A clinician explains what overlaps, what's distinct, why the DSM-5-TR and ICD-11 differ, and how a trauma assessment guides care.

Kiesa Kelly
Jun 1413 min read


Depersonalization & Derealization (DPDR) | ScienceWorks
Feeling detached from yourself or the world? Depersonalization and derealization (DPDR) are common, treatable, and not a sign you're losing your mind.

Kiesa Kelly
Jun 411 min read


Complex PTSD vs BPD: How Clinicians Differ | ScienceWorks
Complex PTSD and borderline personality disorder overlap by roughly half. Here is how clinicians tell them apart, why the label shapes your care, and what a careful, trauma-informed assessment involves.

Kiesa Kelly
Jun 314 min read


Complex PTSD vs. PTSD: Key Differences in Symptoms & Care
Complex PTSD vs. PTSD: how repeated trauma adds emotion, self-worth, and relational symptoms, why ICD-11 recognizes C-PTSD, and how treatment differs.

Kiesa Kelly
Jun 216 min read


How EMDR Uses Working Memory: The Mechanism Explained
You have heard EMDR is "moving your eyes back and forth while you think about something hard," and you want to know whether that is actually doing anything. Maybe a clinician suggested it after a PCL-5 screening came back high.

Kiesa Kelly
May 912 min read


Therapy for Chronic Illness: Finding the Right Fit
You have a chronic physical condition and the mental health side has caught up to the medical side in ways your previous therapy did not have to address. This article walks through what changes when chronic physical conditions enter the therapy picture.

Kiesa Kelly
May 913 min read


Trauma Therapy Intake in Tennessee: EMDR, PE, TF-CBT Explained
A clear walkthrough of what happens at a Tennessee trauma therapy intake, how EMDR, Prolonged Exposure, and TF-CBT actually feel in practice, and how to choose the right modality. Includes telehealth specifics, common questionnaires, and questions to ask before you book.

Ryan Burns
Apr 2515 min read


EMDR vs CPT: Mechanism, Sessions, and Who Each Fits
EMDR and CPT are both evidence-based PTSD treatments. Compare mechanisms, session structure, guideline ratings, and which profile fits which therapy.

Kiesa Kelly
Apr 2216 min read


How EMDR Changes the Brain: Bilateral Stimulation Explained
A plain-language walk through the current neuroscience of EMDR: what trauma does to the fear circuit, how bilateral stimulation taxes working memory, what fMRI and EEG studies show, and why memory reconsolidation is the leading explanation for durable change.

Kiesa Kelly
Apr 2214 min read


Online EMDR Therapy: How Virtual Bilateral Stimulation Works
If you have spent any time researching trauma therapy, you have probably asked the same quiet question most adults ask us: "Can this actually work over a screen?" It is a fair thing to wonder. EMDR — Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing — was built around a therapist sitting across from a c

Ryan Burns
Apr 2213 min read


EMDR for OCD: Does It Help, and When It Complements ERP
If you have been in OCD treatment — or researching it seriously — you have probably run into a question that the field itself is still working out: should EMDR be part of your care, or is ERP enough on its own? The short version, and the one most competent OCD clinicians will tell you, is that Expos

Kiesa Kelly
Apr 2214 min read
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