Emerson Bell

About

I am a therapist for adults whose sleep, temper, and concentration have been quietly altered by something that happened, often years ago and often to someone who has never called it by any particular name. Post-traumatic effects are often mistaken for personality, or for concern about something current. That is why so many people spend years treating the symptoms one at a time without ever connecting them. We look at the whole set together. Once the pattern is visible, the individual pieces stop looking like separate personal failings and start looking like one thing with a known treatment. My first work was in school and university counseling, where I saw a great many young adults being treated for six problems that turned out to be one. Connecting them changes everything. If you have been managing several unrelated difficulties, they may not be unrelated. Six problems are often one problem wearing different clothes.