You Check the Room Before You Sit Down
There's a reason you do that, and you can learn it.
Complex PTSD therapy for adults and teens in Sandy, Utah.
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Your Day Has a Second Job
The checking starts before you decide to do it. Exits, faces, who moved, what changed since you walked in.
An anniversary sets it off. So does a news story, or an unexpected look from someone in line.
And the explanation you’ve landed on is about you:
What am I doing that makes people treat me this way?
Your Body Reacts and You Take It Personally
I call the alert what it is: a trauma reaction with machinery behind it.
You read it as character instead, and the reading is always that you’re weak or that you don’t matter.
And no one around you has any idea it’s happening.
You’ve been living with something you were never given the words for.
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In Counseling You Learn Everything I Know
If I know it, you’ll know it. Every session hands you a piece of the machinery.
You’ll learn what the alert is, where it comes from, and what set it off this time.
And a reaction you can name stops being a report on your character.
What You'll Do With What You Learn
Education is the first half. The second half is direct technique, practiced until it holds up outside this office.
- Name the reaction while it's still happening
- Trace it back to where it started
- Walk through a scene in your head until your body answers
- Test a thought against what's actually true today
- Face a memory at a pace you can hold
You get back the day the checking has been taking.
Three Phases That Take Your Life Back
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Assessment and Direction
I take a full history of your treatment, your medications, and the people around you. Then I review the diagnosis you arrived with and set the direction from there.
Guessing stops here.
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The Model in Practice
The longest phase and the most important. What you learn gets used in real situations as they come up, and I adjust the plan around how it lands.
The checking loses its job.
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Maintenance and Tuning
You keep the skills from phase two while I help you fine-tune them as your life changes and new situations test them.
The hard part is already behind you.
Why Trust Me As Your Partner in Healing
You Leave Knowing How It Works
Every explanation I have about what your brain is doing gets handed to you in plain language, session by session.
Blunt Talk, on Your Timing
When I see something worth pointing at, I'll say it plainly, and you decide what gets opened and how fast.
The Target Is Your Life
I've spent twenty years treating complex trauma, and I measure the work by what you go do afterward.
Hi, I’m Fred.
I’ve been doing this work for more than 20 years: trauma of multiple origins including sexual, physical, and emotional; major depression and other mood disorders; and the relationships both of those damage. I see adults, teens from 12 up, and couples. The part I like best is the part most people brace for, the moment somebody finally says the thing out loud.
For eight of those years, I also worked inside an Emergency Department, where I built burnout programs for police officers, firefighters, paramedics, and for the trauma surgeons and nurses who handle the worst nights of other people’s lives. That work sets a person’s tolerance for hard conversations fairly high, and it taught me to explain complicated things in plain language, fast.
So I’ll question the labels you walked in with. Not everybody’s bipolar. Not everybody’s a narcissist.
Frequently Asked Questions
No. Plenty of the work happens without a detailed retelling of the worst parts, and how far we go on a given day is up to you.
Then I slow the session down and you leave on your feet. Watching for that and getting you back before you walk out is part of my job.
Talking without a direction stirs things up and leaves them there. The work I do is paced, and you’ll understand what each step is for before it happens.
Plenty of people don’t. I work with what your memory and your body actually hand over, and gaps don’t stop the treatment from working.
That happens, and it’s usually information about the fit or the direction rather than about you. Say so in the first conversation so it’s on the table from the beginning.
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You Have Opinions You've Never Let Out
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If your alert fires on a day when nothing has actually happened, and you’ve read that as a fact about who you are, this is the work for you.
I start with a full history and a direction. From there it’s education, guided imagery, CBT, and technique you practice between sessions.
There’s a point where your opinion leaves your mouth without the pre-check first. Send the contact form and Morgan will set up the free consultation.
One day the opinion arrives and leaves your mouth in the same breath.
What Happens Next?
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Payments & Services
Services are billed on a session-by-session basis.
We provide superbills for insurance reimbursement and accept HSA/FSA.
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