You can feel better again and experience peace and confidence.
Michelle Croyle, LPC is a Pittsburgh-based, EMDR-certified trauma therapist who specializes in providing faith-informed counseling and therapy intensives for Christian women in Carnegie, Pittsburgh, and across Pennsylvania. She offers in-person and virtual trauma therapy, as well as multi-day intensives for clients willing to travel to Pennsylvania. Areas of specialty include anxiety, church hurt, childhood abuse, betrayal trauma, grief and loss, PTSD and complex PTSD (C-PTSD), developmental and narcissistic abuse recovery, self-esteem healing, and help healing emotional wounds resulting from traumatic experiences.
You’ve been trying your best to heal, move forward, and get past the painful things you’ve experienced that are still affecting you way more than you’d like.
You’ve tried to push past it, deny it, and pray through it, yet your thoughts still swirl, you feel overwhelmed by emotional overload, and feel frustrated that it’s taking longer than you wish, even though you’ve tried all the “right” things?
But, you suspect there must be something you’re missing, because you find yourself repeating patterns and cycles that you wish would stop.
YOU AREN’T FAILING.
You’re struggling with the impact of unresolved “trauma.”
When our nervous systems experience things that are too much, too soon, too hard, or when we don’t have enough resources to meet our needs, the impact can overwhelm us and our body and mind’s ability to process the effects thoroughly and completely.
I can help you…
and your nervous system to complete the processing that will help you to get back to a more comfortable experience within yourself.
If life doesn’t look or feel how you want it to…
You’ve got a lot of good things going for you, but then, there’s that one area that you can’t seem to get past. When you hit up against it, you notice that things seem harder, less in your control, and more overwhelming than you’d like them to be.
You don’t want to live in this messy middle any longer than necessary, and you’re ready to seek out the answers and get to the root of it once and for all so you can get on with living your life well, with more peace and confidence.
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Trauma can be a one-time catastrophic event that shatters your sense of safety, predictability, and understanding of how the world works.
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Families and relationships can be complicated, and emotional wounds in childhood, early adulthood, and as a result of abuse and mistreatment can be overwhelming because we don’t have the resources, support, and experience that we need.
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Maybe your feelings tell you one thing, your thoughts tell you another, and your whole self is longing to be free of the struggle.
Healing is Possible.
If you are tired of struggling so hard just to be “okay,” I want you to know that healing IS possible, and thriving is, too. I know they’re possible because I see them take place every day in my clients, and I have personally experienced healing in my own life.
I know it can be hard to believe healing is really possible when you don’t feel it and have felt so beaten down for so long, but if you are ready to heal, I’ve got the faith, the expertise, the training, the experience, and the compassion to walk with you on your healing journey.
Hi, I’m Michelle.
You don’t have to be stuck suffering from the effects of...
How I help
I specialize in deep therapy for trauma recovery and lasting change.
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Through utilizing EMDR as the base treatment method and bringing in both somatic and parts work (as well as faith-based work for those who desire), deep healing takes place.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is also a tool that I utilize, but it is not effective alone to treat trauma due to the way that the logical part of the brain for thought is less available when one goes through an overwhelming traumatic experience.
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The body really does keep the score as Bessel Van der Kolk’s book of the same name says.
Experiences are sometimes too deep for words due to the traumatic nature of the wounding. Yet, working with the awareness of tension and relaxation in the body can give “voice” to the unspoken experience and be honored in therapy work so that they body can release the tension and traumatic memory energy..
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Our nervous system and memory networks hold the perspectives of all that we have lived through. This includes different experiences, ages and stages of our developmental periods, and any attachment wounds we carry.
To survive, we learn to strategize through “parts” of ourselves responding to keep us surviving. These parts are all trying to benefit us in some way, but various parts can be at odds with each other.
For instance, one “part” wants to eat a pan of brownies because we’ve had a hard day and wants to relax like in childhood, but another “part” wants to “take the high road” and scold us for not sticking to our eating plan because it knows we want to be healthy.
Working with our “parts” can help us to uncover ways that our strategies for survival are butting heads with each other, and therapy can help all parts to be seen and heard with solutions agreed upon. (In this example, we’ll have two small brownies and give the rest away to the neighbor, for instance).
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EMDR stands for Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing. It is a therapeutic technique that utilizes an 8 phase protocol to help you stay within a tolerable range while processing trauma or stuck points through the use of bilateral eye movements or bilateral tapping to process a chosen presently disturbing experience so that it loses its disturbance. It does this through allowing the body, mind, emotions, and spirit to communicate with each other through repeated sets of bilateral movements.while focused on the changing nature of the targeted experience. This is an evidence-based modality backed by science.for the treatment of trauma.
How it works
Life is hard enough right now.
Let me make this part easier for you…
Click this link to choose a day and time for a free 15-minute phone consultation with me.
Ask any questions you may have, and see if you feel we would be a good fit to work together.
If we’re a good match, we will talk about next steps, and if we aren’t, I’ll help point you in a direction that can best meet your needs.