Margaret Graham (she/her)

If your Sunday Scaries have crept into the entire week, it's time to address your struggles. My agenda isn't to patch you up and send you back into an unsustainable hot mess. I want to find the root of what's happening, and I'm certain that some of it is your patterns, some of it is your environment, and some of it is the dumpster fire of our current political and social climate. Together, we'll make sense of this hole you're in and build a ladder for you to climb out.

I promise not to ask you about your passions, about what you wanted to be when you grew up, and your favorite courses. I love online assessments as much as any career counselor, and we can look at your results. But I'm highly doubtful that your answers lie there. No cookie cutters or formulas here. I'll introduce you to tools, but more than that, I'll help you find the patterns that are holding you back and help you heal them while creating clarity about your next steps.

Burnout applies to work AND life. You can be fried about the treadmill that is your job, you can be weary to your core about the slog that is your daily routine, and you can be fed up with the useless dance that you have with people close to you (or fed up with your own isolation). The worn-down malaise that clouds your world is here to deliver an important message: it's time for a change. Let's see where you need to make shifts and how you can approach those changes with energy and ease.

The first time I heard about EMDR, more than 20 years ago, I thought, "This is some woo woo shit." And I dismissed it. Fast forward...erm...MANY years, and one of my favorite colleagues told me that she had been trained in EMDR and loved it. Okay, now I'm listening. After some research and many other conversations, I went through the training, and I witnessed (and experienced myself) amazing transformation and relief from stuckness and trauma that had haunted people for years. I'm in. Love it.

It started in 2005 with an off-hand comment from a friend about working with a coach. Back then, we thought people meant sports coaching, but my friend straightened me out. I found an amazing coach, who talked to me with a purity that stunned me. Her only agenda was for me to thrive on my terms. Honestly, no one had ever talked to me like that. I never looked back. Got certified as a coach, then got my mental health license. Still use my coaching skills in every session, therapy and coaching.

CBT is transformative because it allows us to see the core, the origin of what drags us down. Once you see it, you can't unsee it, and it liberates you to pull up the old, maladaptive roots and plant fresh, thriving roots that feed you so that you can face forward and create things in your life that seemed elusive. On the surface, CBT seems shallow and almost filled with toxic positivity, but look a little deeper and it's clear that it has substance that illuminates outdated patterns.