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DANA TERRELL, M.S.W., LCSW (LCS 13773)
(619) 283-5665

Enhancing Spirit, Strengths and Success

Are you feeling Stuck? Do disturbing feelings like anxiety, sadness, worry or anger rotate through your thoughts like watching laundry rotating through the window of a front-loading washer or dryer? Do thoughts continually drag down your self esteem – thoughts like:  “I can’t succeed”? “I’m not good enough”? “I’m not lovable”? Are there any behaviors you are doing “too much” that are interfering with your ability to work, play, love and enjoy life? Are there skills you wish you had in your relationships that could give you more success? Does it seem confusing that you should even have these problems? Some people ask me – “why should I be so troubled, when my life is actually pretty good?”

In life we will have some disappointments, regrets and suffering. It is unavoidable. But it is good to reach out for understanding and competent help to heal as soon as possible. I firmly believe that since the development of EMDR, long-term emotional suffering is unnecessary. Staying “stuck” is completely unnecessary.

Dana Terrell, EMDR therapist in San Diego

EMDR Certification: 2002
EMDRIA-Approved Consultant: 2007
Hours: Monday through Wednesday, 9 am to 5 pm
Payment: PPO, VOC, and private
Office: North Park, easy access to Downtown

 
From my 12 years of experience with EMDR (I am EMDRIA Certified and an EMDRIA- Approved Consultant, guiding other EMDR therapists to attain EMDRIA Certification) I love watching how EMDR can clear out disturbing emotions and the accompanying physical sensations, limiting beliefs and behaviors, and traumas. Once that happens, clients spontaneously access their true personalities. I watch their spirits, strengths and success-abilities engage. To me, this makes it an awesome experience to “walk alongside” my clients as they heal.

For over 25 years I’ve been using family systems therapy (the Bowen theory) to help individuals and people in relationships of all kinds. I find this a sound way to help you see choices for making your side of the relationship more mature than it may have been previously. Clients gain understanding and acceptance of the limitations of each unique relationship. The paradox is that they then discover their relationships gradually becoming more satisfying.

One basic principle of the Bowen theory is that we all have certain chronic anxieties that make it harder for us to be emotionally mature in relationships while under stress. One key goal is to reduce these anxieties. I find EMDR is an outstanding way to accomplish that aim.

Please take this opportunity now to improve your future. I look forward to the empowerment of your best self, with all the awesome qualities and talents that may be forgotten within you, but are not lost.

I will welcome a call from you, and am very interested to know what may be bothering you now. Please tell me how you would like your life to be different in the future. That list of goals will guide us in our work together, and once they are achieved, will tell us when our work is complete. Please call me at (619) 283-5665.






  

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