Let’s gather together and explore how self-care and community care be helpful in these trying times. While each of us is on our own journey with unique highs and lows, we are also interconnected. We have shared experiences and collective stress, trauma and grief. Stress can often disconnect us from our own strengths and from each other, but it can also be a signal to care more deeply and intentionally for ourselves and for each other. Self-care is ever evolving. We all can benefit from learning and practicing new strategies and returning to ones that have been helpful before. We can also benefit from community care, which helps increase connection and belonging, decrease stigma around trauma and mental health struggles, and increase resiliency and capacity to cope.
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My name is Jessica Anderson. I have been a social worker since 2005 and became a therapist in 2010. I currently provide culturally responsive, trauma-informed therapy to children, adolescents and adults in private practice. I have experience working with people across the lifespan (age 4-90’s) in a wide range of settings, including homes, shelters, schools, outpatient offices, community centers, and health clinics. I am experienced in working with anxiety, depression, complex trauma, dissociation, identity development and exploration, life transitions, relationship difficulties, infertility, family conflict, grief and loss, school and work stress, LGBTQIA+ folks, and immigrants, refugees, and second generation Americans. I have specialized training in EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Psychotherapy) and I provide consultation to other therapists trained in this. EMDR is a type of therapy that helps people heal from stressful and traumatic past experiences while decreasing negative and mixed-up self-beliefs,
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A member congregation of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America