I am a psychotherapist and educator. I am fascinated by the complexities of the human experience. My mission is to promote wholeness and connection within, with others, and with all living beings!
Mia K Snyder, LPC
Services
Individual Therapy
Therapy regarding PTSD, Anxiety, Depression, and Unwanted or Abusive Childhood Experiences.
EMDR Therapy
Anyone can experience intense trauma. Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) therapy is widely considered one of the best treatments for post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and it has been endorsed as an effective therapy by many organizations: World Health Organization, Veterans Administration, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, American Psychiatric Association, and International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies.
EMDR therapy is an extensively researched, effective psychotherapy method proven to help people recover from trauma and other distressing life experiences, including PTSD, anxiety, depression, and panic disorders.
While traumatic experiences may be managed and resolved spontaneously, they can not be processed without help.
Stress responses are part of our natural fight, flight, or freeze instincts. When distress from a disturbing event remains, the upsetting images, thoughts, and emotions may create feelings of overwhelm, of being back in that moment, or of being “frozen in time.” EMDR therapy helps the brain process these memories and allows normal healing to resume. The experience is still remembered, but the fight, flight, or freeze response from the original event is resolved.
I have completed additional EMDR training specific to attachment and early childhood referred to in literature as complex trauma. I also have additional EMDR training in working with dissociative disorders.
Group Therapy
I value group work tremendously. Research indicates that group therapy is similar in effectiveness to individual therapy. Please contact me if you are interested in group therapy. I plan to start a group in spring 2021.
Snyder Counseling is dedicated to quality service in the treatment of trauma. This practice recognizes the importance of treating the whole person, body, mind, and spirit within his, her, or their cultural context.
Professional counseling in Columbia, Missouri — and throughout the state, thanks to Telehealth.