Dr. Ashleigh Kramer-Walthall
Dr. Ashleigh Kramer-Walthall
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Qualifications

Education

  • Doctor of Psychology in Clinical Psychology, Sofia University, 2018
  • Master of Arts in Counseling Psychology, Southwestern College, 2013
  • Bachelor of Arts in International Relations, American University, 2003

Credentials & Training

Licensed Clinical Psychologist in the State of California, License # PSY31955. 


In the past decade I have provided individual, group, and family eating disorder treatment at the Residential, Partial-Hospitalization, Intensive Outpatient, and Outpatient therapy settings. I have also treated those recovering from depression, trauma, gender dysphoria, addictions, and intimacy and attachment disorders at these levels of care. 


Postdoctoral fellowship completed at Ride the Wave Recovery. Predoctoral internship completed at The Lotus Collaborative.


Member of the California Psychological Association

Member of the Monterey Bay Psychological Association

Member of the Santa Cruz Gender Diversity Consultation group

Certifications

Internal Family Systems (IFS) Level 2

Eye Movement Reprocessing Desensitization (EMDR) Advanced Training

Eye Movement Reprocessing Desensitization (EMDR) Advanced Training

"Internal Family Systems is a powerfully transformative, evidence-based model of psychotherapy. We believe the mind is naturally multiple and that is a good thing.  Our inner parts contain valuable qualities and our core Self knows how to heal, allowing us to become integrated and whole. In IFS all parts are welcome."


"Internal Family Systems is a powerfully transformative, evidence-based model of psychotherapy. We believe the mind is naturally multiple and that is a good thing.  Our inner parts contain valuable qualities and our core Self knows how to heal, allowing us to become integrated and whole. In IFS all parts are welcome."

~Dr. Richard Schwartz


https://ifs-institute.com/ 


"Internal Family Systems (IFS) is an approach to psychotherapy that identifies and addresses multiple sub-personalities or families within each person’s mental system. These sub-personalities consist of wounded parts and painful emotions such as anger and shame, and parts that try to control and protect the person from the pain of the wounded parts. The sub-personalities are often in conflict with each other and with one’s core Self, a concept that describes the confident, compassionate, whole person that is at the core of every individual. IFS focuses on healing the wounded parts and restoring mental balance and harmony by changing the dynamics that create discord among the sub-personalities and the Self."

~Psychology Today

 

Eye Movement Reprocessing Desensitization (EMDR) Advanced Training

Eye Movement Reprocessing Desensitization (EMDR) Advanced Training

Eye Movement Reprocessing Desensitization (EMDR) Advanced Training

"EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) is a psychotherapy that enables people to heal from the symptoms and emotional distress that are the result of disturbing life experiences.  Repeated studies show that by using EMDR therapy people can experience the benefits of psychotherapy that once took years to make a difference. I

"EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) is a psychotherapy that enables people to heal from the symptoms and emotional distress that are the result of disturbing life experiences.  Repeated studies show that by using EMDR therapy people can experience the benefits of psychotherapy that once took years to make a difference. It is widely assumed that severe emotional pain requires a long time to heal.  EMDR therapy shows that the mind can in fact heal from psychological trauma much as the body recovers from physical trauma.  

EMDR therapy is an eight-phase treatment.  Eye movements (or other bilateral stimulation) are used during one part of the session.  After the clinician has determined which memory to target first, they ask the client to hold different aspects of that event or thought in mind and to use the bilateral stimulation.  As this happens, for reasons believed by a Harvard researcher to be connected with the biological mechanisms involved in Rapid Eye Movement (REM) sleep, internal associations arise and the clients begin to process the memory and disturbing feelings. In successful EMDR therapy, the meaning of painful events is transformed on an emotional level. 

Unlike talk therapy, the insights clients gain in EMDR therapy result not so much from clinician interpretation, but from the client’s own accelerated intellectual and emotional processes.  The net effect is that clients conclude EMDR therapy feeling empowered by the very experiences that once debased them.  Their wounds have not just closed, they have transformed."

~EMDR Institute


https://www.emdr.com/


 

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