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Grief, Loss and Trauma Recovery Therapist
With sessions now available online, I am no longer limited by geography and am available to have help you wherever you may be in California. If you are a mature adult needing trauma and/or grief recovery you have come to the right place. I work with individual adult persons via zoom. Extended half day sessions can be arranged in person, but are not covered by insurance including Medicare. One hour online sessions can be covered by insurance through Medicare and Headway (Headway has contracts with many insurance companies). For Medicare and private pay please contact my office by text (707)338-6177 or email: vickivanwinkle@gmail.com. To use your insurance through the Headway app please follow this link:
My practice specializes in a integrated approach using EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) in a customized forward focused way. I help you with where you are now and where you are headed as a priority and focus on the past happens in sessions only as needed. This path is active, conversational, and psychoeducational in nature. If you have PTSD, a specialized PTSD therapist is a must! Understanding symptoms such as anxiety, irritability, negativity, dissociation, etc is much easier with a trained guide. When I am your therapist you will have an opportunity learn about your conditon and gain the skills necessary to reduce your symptoms.
If you are interested in meeting with me, please email me at vickivanwinkle@gmail.com You can also join my short waiting list by signing up now with this link and I will reach out to you when a spot becomes available. http://eepurl.com/hRdV6b
To receive invitations to future trauma and grief tending community group sessions please sign up here: (separate mailing lists).
https://mailchi.mp/10543c700b3a/grief-tending-s
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My practice is often full with limited availability. Some availability does come up regularly as people finish therapy. At this time I accept the following payment methods: private pay by venmo or check, and am a provider on the panels of Aetna, Carelon, Anthem and Medicare. If you are a member of one of these insurers, have PTSD, depression or an anxiety condition and live in the state of CA you may be able to use your insurance coverage to receive my assistance with your condition.
Thank you for visiting my page,
Vicki Van Winkle, MFT, MFA
Thank you for visiting my page,
Vicki Van Winkle, MFT EMDR, Trauma and Grief Mental Health Specialist
PTSD Therapist - EMDR Therapist - Grief Counselor - Telehealth Therapy - Online therapy for grief
‘My wish is to share the tools I have learned in my long walk through life, to provide some relief and help you to alleviate excess stress in your life.’
Do you sometimes feel that you have things going on within that you wish you were not so alone with? Maybe you are experiencing waves of emotion that you are not sure how to work on. Feeling just so irritated, worried and sad?….Having struggles with sorting out relationships, emotions, and thoughts? Have you experienced trauma or losses that have been tough to live with? Do you sometimes long for more peace in your life, but not know the ways to bring peaceful feelings about? Do you wish you could find a way to grow stronger, so life would feel easier? If any of those are true, this kind of therapy might be a good fit for you.
My job is a work of listening well and speaking clearly from what I hear: for your own solutions lie within your own heart. You have our own style, values and life purpose that can be found within, I am here to help you be a seeker who can feel deeply and yet also regain your poise, balance and clarity in tough, confusing times have come along.
I have walked through many times of turmoil and confusion, having been fortunate for the healing help of many encountered along the way.
During my whole life the study of Consciousness has always been my highest interest. Sitting with Sufis and the Yogis, I was gifted with many deep experiences of inner peace. Initially, these peaceful moments were very fleeting, like a glimmer of a diamond in a dark room. Over time peace became more and more accessible and available in everyday moments, at home, work or play. Life did not suddenly become perfect, but the ability to experience peace was expanded.
While difficulties in life can arrive at any time, it has proven very helpful to develop a full array of tools for dealing with life as it comes along. Many people have told me one of the most valuable things they got out of working with me is a good set of tools for living.
Slow down, and pause, to retain flexibility and to be able to apply wisdom: This is the most important thing I have learned in life, and usually the most important thing I teach and help train people in when they come to me for help. Most people who come to me have many tools, but are not able to access them under times of severe stress. Sharing this ability to expand inner peace is the reason I have created my therapy practice.
There are no troubles that can not be made lighter through sharing and cultivating skillful perspectives about them.
Feel free to contact me to discuss how this kind of inner work may help you live in a more graceful and easy way. It is possible to live in stressful times and still remember the humor and common sense in your own being.
Click here to find out more about my classes and workshops.
Find out more about our monthly Community Grief Tending Sessions. Click Here!
Let’s Get Started Now on Your Healing!
Contact me by phone, text or email to make an appointment for therapy, problem solving consultation and EMDR therapy
(yes we do EMDR over zoom).
(707)338-6177
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