MEET DR.
KIMBERLY
CRAWFORD
Dr. Kimberly Crawford is a former professor in the Social Work Department at Northwest Nazarene University. During that time, she served as the Director of the Social Work Department and the head of the Mental Health and Additions track. Dr. Crawford has been a mental health therapist for over 30 years and specialist in trauma resolution from a neurobiological perspective. She is the founder of Wellness Innovations, LLC, a consulting and training institute that focuses on trauma resolution and resilience development.
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Wellness Innovations
Wellness Innovations based in Boise, Idaho utilizes Somatic Therapy practices to provide relief from a variety of symptoms: anxiety, depression, relationship distress, difficulty sleeping, increased use of alcohol, erratic behavior such as overeating, risky sexual choices, excessive spending or simply feeling you are tired of going through the motions of life.
Dr. Kimberly Crawford has over 30 years of experience in the mental health profession and has extensive post-doctoral training in the areas of Somatic Experiencing, Somatic EMDR, and Touch-Skills for Trauma Resolution. She has also been a professor of both counseling and graduate level social work, most recently tenured at NNU.
Somatic Psychotherapy is distinctly different from ‘talk therapy’. Talk therapy focuses on helping the client to ‘process’ through situations by talking. Somatic Psychotherapy focuses on the body’s natural adaptive survival responses to threat and stress and assists the client to move from a state of fight/flight/freeze to the desired state of safety and connection. Sessions focus on the ‘body’s story’ which doesn’t require the client to go into details describing events.
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- Understand resilience, stress, and threat from a neurobiological perspective.
- Recognize when the body is in a regulated state vs. a dysregulated state.
- Experience moving from one nervous system to another.
- Practice Somatic skills to regulate the nervous system.