Individual Counseling

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Myrna offers early trauma resolution work with adults in the individual one-to-one session format, especially around prenatal, birth and very early experiences. She also works with women across the whole range of women’s reproductive issues, including: infertility, adoption preparation and support, pregnancy and child loss, abortion, prenatal or postnatal depression. She specializes in depression and anxiety treatment for women across the life span.

Signs of Early Adverse Imprints in Adults

experiences of depression, anxiety, post traumatic stress disorder and other difficulties maintaining a positive mood, excitement and sense of self esteem and purpose in your life
difficulty forming and maintaining a healthy primary relationship with a partner
aggression that is acted out in destructive or criminal ways
excessive timidity in everyday life
inappropriate fight or flight or freeze responses in current non-threatening circumstances
difficulty mobilizing in the face of actual danger
difficulty in setting limits and boundaries
difficulty responding in compassionate, empathetic ways to self or others
confusion, difficulty with decision making
excessive risk taking behaviors, e.g. drug addictions, really extreme sports, risky sexual behaviors, dangerous driving
being irresponsible for one’s own physical safety
blaming or shaming others regularly as a way to cope with life
difficulty sequencing – intention, preparation, action, follow through, integration
difficulty establishing self as an independent adult in the world, with a support system
major difficulties in parenting that result in neglectful or abusive behaviors towards children

Benefits of Attachment Therapy for Adults

strengthen your sense of safety and resourcefulness in the world
resolve shock and trauma
re-pattern your basic template in life to more ease and grace daily
deepen your connection to your authentic self and those you care about in your life
enjoy your body
become healthier and happier
change mechanical or automatic patterns into creative choices
learn to cultivate healing time, stillness and spaciousness
change reactivity patterns in yourself and in your relationships into responsiveness
spend more time in the flow and less time in constricted states
identify and work with family of origin patterns so they aren’t running you today
deepen your ‘witness’ and your ability to choose
create space for empathetic responses to yourself and other people/beings
slow the pace so you can actually feel and integrate your life experiences

Book Your Session

Myrna sees many people over the phone or on Skype for people living all over the world. For more information and to set up an appointment, please call Myrna at (250) 509-1033, or email myrna@myrnamartin.net. As of Jan. 1, 2019 Myrna’s rate for sessions is $150. Myrna is now located in Comox, BC

Resources for Attachment Therapy

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Health Implications to Consider with Placenta for Consumption

Book Review: Birth and Attachment

Neurofeedback works: Van der Kolk

Attachment Bonds Start EARLY

Experts in the fields of psychology, neuroscience, sociology and education say the theory’s underlying assumption — that the quality of our early attachments profoundly influences how we behave as adults — has special resonance in an era when people seem more attached to their smartphones than to one another.

Module Six: Couples, From an Attachment Perspective

This Module delineates the dynamics of couples interaction and suggests effective tools for working with these issues.I am very excited about this module, as couple relationship and parenting is where, as adults, our own early attachment and adverse experiences most REVEAL themselves. It can also be a place where resiliency shines.

About Module Five: Ancestral Double Binds

In this module, we will explore ancestral influences on individuation/connection, and merging dynamics (in pre and perinatal work we call this 'twin dynamics')...An extensive home project will be suggested for everyone. Treatment models will be explored.

As the twin and multiple birth rate is continuing to increase this module also looks at twin pregnancy, the impact of losing a twin during pregnancy, and growing up as a twin. I will delineate the difference between identical and fraternal twins, and because more twins mean more breech positions for babies about to be born we will also look briefly at breech birth.

About Module Four: Chemical and Surgical Imprinting During Birth

This module marks a big transition in this video series. In Module One I included the Maternal Matrix, which outlines what we optimally would have received in an embodied way by the time we were three years old...Chemical and surgical interventions, or the presence of them in our early life strongly and effectively take us out of our bodies and beings. We will delve into the signature patterns of these interventions (in module 4) in our autonomic nervous systems.

About Module Three: Vaginal Birth

Like conception and implantation, birth requires an intention to be born, and preparation – the baby actually initiates labour, and must move into an optimal position if a relativity easy birth is to occur. The action of the actual birth stages is dynamic, and the baby is actively involved in that movement.

About Module Two: Preconception and Conception Journey

This module starts with an exploration of our inner and outer resources. When we begin to reveal to ourselves all that babies and young children need and deserve to optimally grow and be themselves, it may bring up some of the experiences of what we didn’t get and wanted.

Resources and regulation is important so we are not overwhelmed. Just acknowledging what actually happened to us helps us to consciously repattern and make different choices….as we are soooooo much more than what happened to us.

About Module One: Attachment

This module of this video series is 12 hours long, and details the attachment process, from pre conception to age 2. You are invited into his family to observe his mother heal her disappointment from the C Section, and how he begins the healing process from the vacuum extraction AND forceps he experienced.