Welcome Dalyn Pacheco-Smith
We would like to welcome one of our newest therapists, Dalyn Pacheco-Smith, LMFT to Embrace Change Therapy. He is accepting new clients, seeing individuals and couples in person and online. Dalyn helps those through issues with relationships, life transitions, trauma, stress, anxiety, and depression. He sees adults and teens and accepts Blue Cross Blue Shield, […]
What are the Different Types of Emotions?
Natural emotions Most people experience a variety of emotions throughout their life. Most of these experienced emotions are in reaction to something; an event, a person, something gross, or something pleasant or comforting. Sometimes these emotions are intense and fleeting, and other times they stick around. When we have an immediate emotional response to something […]
Panic and Anxiety Attacks
Intense headaches, shaking, nausea, lightheadedness, irregular heartbeat, chest pains, trouble breathing, tightness in the chest, stomach pain, sweating, tingling. Numbness, intense hot or cold feelings, perceived choking, or being unable to speak. Each one of these symptoms on their own can be scary but sometimes people experience a number of these symptoms all together. When […]
A Little Bit About Dissociation
What is dissociation? Here’s a hint, it’s not always a part of Dissociative Identity Disorder or having multiple personalities. Most people have experienced some form of dissociation at some point in their lives. Like most things dissociative symptoms are on a spectrum. Some people may occasionally experience it throughout their life time and be able […]
What are Goals and Objectives?
Life is a journey, and most journeys have end goals with stops along the way. When talking about goals and objectives we can think of the goal as being the destination and the objectives as the necessary pit stops. These objectives are each as important as the end goal. Imagine trying to do a cross […]
How do people respond to trauma?
We tend to think of trauma as some big event that causes PTSD, including symptoms like nightmares and flashbacks. While these things are true, trauma and symptoms of trauma can be subtle or show up where they aren’t expected. A traumatic event is anything that happens in which a person is negatively impacted to the […]
Your Body Does Not Determine Your Worth
Body positivity, body acceptance, Health at Every Size. These are all movements/ideologies that have been gaining traction in recent years. Each of these labels signifies a group of people that want to make a statement. This statement is that everyone in any body deserves to have a positive body image. Beauty is a social construct […]
Why you need a Support System
One of the biggest predictors of recovery or improved mental health is an individual’s access to and use of their support system. Support systems can consist of family, friends, mentors, or peer relationships. It can include teachers, classmates, a faith community, or co-workers and can look different for different people. Some people may have a […]
The Window of Tolerance
Whether it is talked about in this way or not, one goal of therapy is almost always to help clients to widen their Window of Tolerance. What is the Window of Tolerance you ask? It is a space where we can exist in life in which we feel that we can handle what is thrown […]
Consent is More Than Just Sex
Consent is a topic we don’t touch on enough in daily life. Consent is most often discussed in relation to sex but it’s bigger than that. Each of us begins to learn about consent as children. Oftentimes the earliest consent violations occur when a child is forced to kiss or hug a relative when they […]