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Dayna Reader, LMFT, C-EMDR

"We are all just walking each other home."


~ Ram Das

I offer solution-focused talk therapy and general counseling, as well as EMDR therapy. I also practice Internal Family Systems therapy (IFS), Gottman Method and Imago relationship counseling.


Other areas of specialization include:


Trauma Processing & Resolution

  • EMDR Therapy for big and small traumas (from combat trauma, to car accidents, to schoolyard bullying, parents divorce, etc.) EMDR Therapy is effective in treating a wide range of distressing past experiences which may be keeping you stuck today.
  • Survivors of physical, sexual, emotional and verbal abuse 
  • PTSD and Complex Trauma


Relationship Counseling for all Sexual Orientations

  • Effective communication tools
  • Resolve old issues that keep coming up
  • Pre-marital or pre-cohabitation counseling
  • Break up/divorce in a non-combative manner    
  • Infidelity
  • Relationship counseling for adults living in alternative partnerships (polyamory, lifestyle, etc.)
  • New babies to empty nest
  • Special expertise in working with neurodiverse & ASD couples, as well as couples where one or both are in addiction recovery


Pregnancy, Childbirth, & Post-partum

  • Traumatic or disappointing birth experiences
  • Emotional preparation for labor & birth
  • Pregnancy loss, stillbirth or abortion
  • Examine & heal from your own childhood before becoming a parent
  • Infertility or secondary infertility  
  • Postpartum depression, anxiety, adjustment or “the baby blues”


Parenting Issues

  • Redefining your identity as a person after you’ve become a parent, and again when the kids leave home
  • Creative, effective discipline & limit-setting from toddlers to teens
  • Communication tools for co-parents
  • Parents who were abused as children and lack a template for loving parenting
  • Co-parenting after divorce/break-up
  • Parenting your highly sensitive, anxious or neurodivergent (ADHD, autism) child
  • Estrangement from adult children
  • General parenting concerns & issues that arise throughout the development of your children & yourself as a parent
  • Relationships with adult children


Other Areas of Focus

  • “Adulting” help & support during this important phase of development (ages 18-30ish)
  • Personal growth, spiritual exploration, and crises of faith
  • Boundary setting with difficult people
  • Anxiety management
  • Managing “low contact” and “no contact” relationships with family of origin
  • Late diagnosed ADHD and Autistic adults
  • Highly sensitive people, empaths, and high masking autistic women
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"If I am not good to myself, how can I expect anyone else to be good to me?"


~ Maya Angelou