Courtney Wells, PhD | Pivot Psych Chicago
Dr. Courtney Wells is a clinical psychologist and founder of Pivot Psych Chicago, specializing in trauma-focused care for individuals and couples. In these clips, we discuss how trauma is best understood by its impact rather than by specific events, how survival strategies that once protected someone can later become rigid patterns, and how therapies like ACT help people change their relationship to internal experience. We also explore the role of naming and psychological distance in reducing distress, how different trauma treatments approach healing, and why meaningful change often requires tolerating discomfort rather than trying to eliminate it.
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