The Mission

Helping You Address and Transform Your Trauma

The truth is, all of us have experienced some form of trauma in our lives.  The first step in understanding how your trauma is showing up, is starting with this basic premise.

Here at Refuge Counseling Wellness Services, I am on a mission to help you address and transform your trauma. This is the essence of post traumatic growth. Your trauma may be manifesting as anxiety, depression or other mood struggles. It may be showing up in repeated conflicts in your marriage, how you parent, how you connect in relationships and how you cope with stress altogether.  No matter how it manifest, I gently get to the root of your presenting issues, using evidence based trauma treatments such as EMDR, CBT  and rich psychoanalytic work to unearth the unconscious forces influencing your behavior.

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Hey, I’m Hermeisha!

Founder of Refuge Counseling Wellness Services

As a certified EMDR trauma therapist, I specialize in helping women of color address issues related to anxiety, trauma and spiritual growth by providing EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing), Psychoanalysis, and upon request Biblical/Christian Counseling.  I am passionate about building healthy (trauma informed) Christians, which involves addressing the wounded areas in our lives, our current unhealthy thoughts and behaviors and how that significantly impacts our spiritual growth, wellness and witness.

Here at Refuge Counseling I am committed to building healthy trauma informed individuals, families and communities,  one session at a time, providing holistic services that address our mental, emotional, spiritual and physical aspects of ourselves.

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What I Do

Helping anxious adults heal Childhood Trauma wounds through EMDR trauma work and Psychoanalysis

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Individual

In individual counseling, I am integrative in my approach, but I primarily take a trauma informed and psychoanalytic approach to treatment where I focus on unearthing and bringing to your conscious awareness the unconscious thoughts and motivations that drive behavior, while addressing the trauma from the root.

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EMDR

I specialize in providing EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing) trauma therapy to adults struggling with overwhelming emotions like anxiety, depression with the goal of decreasing and eliminating the distress significantly.

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Couples/Marital

I help couples understand the roots of their conflicts, end the cycle of arguing and strengthen connection and intimacy in your relationship. I help desperate couples experience deeper connection and end the toxic cycle of relating.

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Online Counseling

Online therapy is the delivery of mental health counseling via the Internet. People also know it as e-therapy, distance therapy, internet therapy and web therapy.

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Supervision

Clinical Social Work Supervision is offered to enhance your clinical and professional skills, knowledge, and attitudes in order to achieve competency in your Social Work identity and in providing quality clinical care.

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Q&A: We Need a Christ-Centered Theology of Trauma

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When Past Trauma Floods The Present

As a certified EMDR trauma therapist, I am a firm believer that all of our mental health struggles can be traced back to our individual and collective experiences with trauma. Our experiences with trauma impact how we parent, our perceptions of self and others, and how we respond in relationships. Often times, we are unaware…

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Is Forgiveness Conditional Or Unconditional

Many lean towards the belief that biblical forgiveness is conditional—-that forgiveness is extended only if the offender apologizes, if the offender acknowledges and takes ownership of their wrong. When they do, that is when we extend forgiveness. The Gospel message is based off this example, that God extends forgiveness, “when” we believe. Belief is exercised…

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