Burnout, Anxiety, & Trauma Therapy for Adults in Pennsylvania
Come home — to your own heart.
You’re here because you don’t have forever.
Instead of presence with your partner, your friends, or within your community, your mind puts up a wall of overwhelm or sometimes blankness that separates you from them.
Your mind is stuck recycling long-held worry that you are doing something wrong, the fear that you are bad, the dread that you are actually not possible to love. You have unfortunately been very convinced of the idea that you don’t belong anywhere, that you don’t have a place in this world. Sometimes you don’t even know where your mind is, if it’s not on any of those things. As much as your mind drips with fear, shame, and distrust, you have to admit — you do want to genuinely connect with others.
You’ve gotten pretty far alone. And you’ve perhaps gotten help from others before. But this time, you want help that affirms that the problem isn’t wholly your fault and balances that with the responsibility and power you do have over your own life. While you know people have profoundly hurt you and that this world is a deeply flawed one, you know that you are ultimately where doing justice to yourself begins.
You know it’s long past time you learned to own who you are, authentically love and care for every part of you, set strong boundaries, hold the right people close, and take up space. And this far into your life, you simply cannot afford wasting any more of your one precious life dishonoring your story.
You deserve a steady witness and support.
radical times, radical healing
Therapeutic approaches that are focused on chemical imbalances, on the pathology of our symptoms, and on changing our behavior patterns while ignoring the body, history, spirituality, or larger social issues have failed many of us. They’ve left us stuck and without lasting relief. And they may have discouraged even more of us from seeking help.
The system of mental health care fails many. Too often, it doesn’t adequately honor the way experience shapes adaptation, the way the mind and soul are grounded in the body, the way people are formed in relationship and community — let alone the way we are shaped by and are actively shaping our personal and collective history.
If you have been frustrated by the walls you have hit in your personal journey…
it’s time to engage the healing process with someone who can weave through these complexities with you.
Meet Chelsea Adams, MA, LPC
EMDR and Somatic IFS Therapist
I am devoted to empowering people by supporting their personal healing and growth.
Whether you are working through anxiety, depression, loss, life transitions, social and relational issues, religious or spiritual issues, or your past, my place in your process is in helping you reconnect with your inherent reserves of strength and energy.
I integrate EMDR and Somatic Internal Family Systems in a person-to-person, down to earth, and realistic way.
I love sparking visceral change at the root of my clients’ smallest and biggest personal experiences.
Specialities
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Developmental & Complex Trauma
These terms refer to traumatic events, environments, or relationships that shaped your developmental years (ages 0-25) or long stretches of adult life.
This can include exposure to: high-conflict family dynamics, high-conflict relationships, emotional neglect and abuse, sexual abuse, physical abuse, toxic workplaces, death, mental illness, substance abuse, racism, poverty, food scarcity, immigration, and genocide.
If your life has been strongly negatively affected by chronic harmful conditions, not just by a single-incident traumatic event, know that healing can be possible for you.
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Religious & Spiritual Issues
Maybe you have been shaped in religious or spiritual environments that left you with profound feelings of shame, anxiety, or terror. Perhaps you have had encounters with people in religious or spiritual communities who violated you in some way.
Whatever your experience is, you may feel these teachings or events disturb you long after leaving these communities and affect your present relationships with others and with yourself.
If you know what this is like, know that you aren’t without hope. What happened to you should not determine your life forever. You can reclaim your mind, body, and beliefs. You can uncover a deeper connection to life and learn to trust in it.
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Health Anxiety
Health anxiety/Health OCD refer to the persistent worry of becoming seriously ill. And while a lot of what drives your emotional distress is about what goes on inside your head… no, it’s not all in your head. It’s also in your central and peripheral nervous systems.
Maybe you have a family history of serious illnesses, or you’ve witnessed a loved one battle a serious illness and pass away. Perhaps you’ve gone through a lot of medical gaslighting, or you have been diagnosed with a chronic medical condition.
Whatever the factors that contribute to your health anxiety are grounded in, you can learn to be appropriately attentive to your health without being paralyzed by intrusive thoughts of getting sick.
If anything I’ve written here resounds with you, I would love to talk about working together.
Ready to get started?
Here’s what comes next.
One: Discover your fit.
During your free 20-minute consultation, I’ll answer any questions you may have about therapy with me so you can be sure I am the right fit for you. Choose the therapeutic frequency and intensity that works for you.
Two: Let’s meet at your speed.
Whether we meet in a gradual, unfolding way in weekly or biweekly therapy, or a brief but immersive therapy intensive — know that you have the space to air out all the thoughts, feelings, and experiences that are holding you back in life.
Three: Feel better, live better.
Heal your nervous system, psyche, and heart. Discover your compassion, peace, and confidence within. Strengthen your ability to self-nurture and self-protect. Enhance your capacity for giving and receiving love.
And go on to live your life and do whatever you please with your beautiful phoenix self!