Hello!

I’m Amy Lowery

I’ve been a licensed psychotherapist for 11 years. I am a certified EMDR therapist and I specialize in working with women who have had hard experiences such as betrayal trauma, confidence issues, life transitions, relationship issues, and anxiety or depression. I want to support you to learn how to explore your own personal growth and to trust yourself again.

I believe that your emotions, your beliefs, and your fears all point to what may need attention on the inside.

My role as a therapist is to guide and support you in uncovering those needs and where they came from so that you can live the life you want.

GET IN TOUCH

Healing Methods

EMDR stands for Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing and is a brain and body-based type of therapy that focuses on reprocessing memories and experiences that have been stored maladaptively.
When we have caregivers that can’t attend to us in the way that we needed as children- through neglect, abuse, or even smothering- we can grow to have distressing symptoms in adulthood. Certain trauma wounds, whether they are a one-time experience such as a car accident or a scary plane flight, or ongoing traumatic experiences can also leave us with distressing symptoms.
EMDR uses certain mechanisms in the brain to reprocess these experiences, memories, and even the absence of certain experiences that we needed as children. A technique called bilateral stimulation is used which gives sensory input to both sides of the brain and body and can be done using eye movements or tapping.
Learn More
Your “inner child” is the part of your subconscious that holds the messages you were given at the early stages in your life. When you take time to acknowledge and “re-parent” your inner child- you are healing yourself by creating new neural pathways in your brain to replace old messages you received.
Somatic therapy aims to integrate the body and mind by tuning in to what you are feeling in your body that is manifested through trauma. Somatic therapy helps you, through resources, to regulate your reactions internally and externally.
Polyvagel theory is incorporated into EMDR and other therapies to focus and explain feelings of safety/threat and the nervous system. Your nervous system is a huge component to overall health and when you’re not doing well, your nervous system reflects your internal state.
Internal Family Systems theory (or IFS for short) is a type of therapy that, like inner child work, focuses on parts of ourselves that have been created throughout our childhood (and adult life) that hold emotions, belief systems, and certain behaviors we perform for safety or protection. The idea that we all hold different parts of ourselves that get activated is based in neuroscience- different neural networks hold different feeling states, behaviors, memories, thoughts, and experiences. When we become aware of these states we are able to change them.

REQUEST AN APPOINTMENT

My Wellness Philosophy

The reason why most of us have parts of our lives that we just can’t seem to get right is trauma— trauma can be anything from outright abuse and neglect by those who we trusted, to something that we didn’t receive in childhood or a relationship like nurturing or protection.

Have you ever felt hyper-vigilant, difficulty sleeping, intrusive memories or flashbacks, exaggerated emotional responses, depression, nightmares, anxiety, shame, or lack of self-worth? These are all trauma responses.

I like to look at the way our bodies tell us there’s something wrong through a somatic lens. This means that we’ll put an emphasis on the way your body feels when it’s dysregulated and how to get back to regulation over time.

Another piece of the puzzle is the belief system that we were initiated into during our childhoods.

Every person has a large portion of their subconscious beliefs that are on autopilot and driving our decisions and thoughts about ourselves every day. The way you think about yourself and the beliefs you have about the world are largely based on how your primary caregivers thought about themselves and the world. If we are able to connect the dots between our beliefs and how they manifest in our lives we can make a conscious decision to pick beliefs that serve us rather than hurt us.