Aura Morris, LCSW

Dissociation is a natural phenomena, and many people experience mild forms of dissociation in everyday live. Dissociation can look like many different things for different people. Mild dissociation may look like feeling "checked out," numb, or tired. Moderate symptoms of dissociation might include feeling like you are "outside of your body" or like the things around you are not real. More severe symptoms can include "losing" chunks of time, where you don't remember things that you did, or...

Internal Family Systems, or IFS for short, is a type of parts work that is used in therapy. There are many different frameworks for doing parts work, but IFS is my personal favorite. In parts work, we observe that all people have different 'parts' of themselves that run certain aspects of their lives, show up in certain ways, or have a certain role they play in our inner world. Examples of common parts that people have or recognize are a 'perfectionist part' that tries to make sure we do...

EMDR stands for Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing. EMDR is a therapy modality that involves using eye movements (or other types of movements, called bilateral stimulation) to move stuckness out of the body, brain, and nervous system. It is a structured treatment that looks very different from other types of therapy. In EMDR therapy, your therapist will guide you through identifying which memories and experiences you will treat, and then they will guide you through the treatment...