Brooke Terry (she/her)

EMDR

I’m EMDR-trained and use it as a core part of my trauma work, especially with complex and developmental trauma. I continue to build on that foundation through advanced training in complex trauma and EMDR. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) helps your brain reprocess painful memories so their distress doesn't overwhelm you as much. For clients who can explain their past but still feel stuck in it, EMDR often reaches what talking alone can’t.

Motivational Interviewing

My use of Motivational Interviewing comes from my training in addiction therapy, where MI is one of the most researched approaches for supporting change. MI is useful when part of you wants something different, and part of you doesn’t. Instead of lecturing or pushing, I help you sort out what you actually want, what’s in the way, and what you’re ready to do about it. I use it with anyone stuck between knowing what needs to change and actually changing it.

PTSD

I treat PTSD and complex PTSD using EMDR and the Flash technique, which help process traumatic memories so they lose their intensity without making you relive every detail. Much of my work is with developmental trauma, the kind that comes from growing up in an unpredictable or unsafe home rather than from a single event. The goal is less hypervigilance, people-pleasing, emotional monitoring, fewer triggers, and more ability to feel settled in your own life.

Family Caregiving

Many of my clients were caregivers long before they were adults, looking after a parent who was emotionally unavailable, ill, or absent. Some are now caring for that same parent again, or for an aging or ill family member, and the old role comes right back. I help caregivers figure out what they can realistically give, set limits without drowning in guilt, and grieve the relationship they never had while still showing up for the one they do.