Alicia Krpan, LMHC
Areas of Specialty
Attachment
Becoming aware of your attachment history and its influence in your relationship with yourself, children, partners, and social circles is a valuable insight in your therapy journey. It is the first step to healing, creating healthy boundaries, and maintaining purposeful relationships. Through compassionate inquiry and curiosity as well as support of psycho-educational tools, we will foster space for necessary self-examination and, if applicable, post-traumatic growth.
Complex Trauma
Much of my professional training has been dedicated to understanding and integrating somatic (i.e., body) practices into trauma treatment. Together, we will lean on one another to invite, listen, process, and transform the narratives that trauma legacies have left in the body. The focus is on developing self-compassion for the client's survival and yet courageous adaptation to it. Our shared time will eventually increase your ability to be present in daily situations and act in a way that feels connected and congruent to what matters most in your life. Therapy aims to invite you on a journey that allows more aliveness, purpose, love, and power.
Specific treatment approaches that I use in the treatment of trauma include: Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR); Internal Family Systems (IFS); and some somatic interventions to support you in understanding the "why" you are reacting in specific ways while unburdening you from those stories.
“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”
- E.E. Cummings -