Garrett Engle is eager to work with individuals, couples, and families from various backgrounds and help guide them through any challenges, struggles, and unexpected life changes. He especially has a passion for working with children, teens, and adolescents.

Pain demands your attention, it demands an explanation, and it demands a response.

If you’ve been dealing with chronic pain for any length of time, then you know this all too well. You also know that the attention pain demands can be exhausting, its explanations are rarely satisfying, and treatments are often disappointing.

Though you might feel hopeless at times, you can learn to better manage your pain and live a productive, fulfilling life. It starts with understanding how your relationship with pain influences the pain you experience.

I am passionate about helping couples, families, and individuals navigate the nuances of life and relationships by fostering a collaborative, safe, and connected therapeutic relationship. If you find yourself feeling trapped in a cycle of conflict with your partner, child, or family member that seems hopeless and never-ending, I can walk along with you on the path to regaining hope, peace, and meaningful connection.

People tend to avoid going to therapy. There are lots of possible reasons why; financial concerns, time concerns, not knowing how the process actually works, fear, etc. While I genuinely understand all of the hesitations and reason I also want to explore what is holding you back from living a more authentic life, a more peaceful life, a more fulfilling life.

With spring on the horizon, many people recommit to their new year’s resolutions to lose a few pounds to achieve that perfect summer body. For some people, dieting may lead to an unhealthy relationship with food and their body. Prevalence rates of eating disorders are on the rise in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2020, The National Eating Disorders Association hotline experienced an increase in calls by 70-80%.

What is structural integration? Basically, I use manual therapy and self-care education to help you find lasting relief from pain and stress. My approach is tailored to your needs and oriented around a process that takes your whole body, and you as a whole person, into consideration. This work is about helping you learn how to find a sense of comfort and ease in your body that’s authentic and sustainable so that you can be more fully yourself, at home in your body, and available for life. After a session, clients often report feeling lighter, taller, with less pain and fewer movement restrictions. With diligence, these feelings can often deepen and sustain over time.

There are some disadvantages that should be acknowledged when deciding whether to meet online or in person. One thing that should be considered is the internet; if the connection is slow there may be a lot of buffering and cutting out which could make a session unsuccessful and difficult to follow. Another consideration to be made is that not having that face to face contact can lack nonverbal cues and can make it difficult for people to feel validated or understood. The therapist might also miss cues and could potentially dismiss something that might have more importance than it seems.

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When pets become sick or injured, it causes considerable stress and anxiety for the owners. People often don’t think of the impact it has on the doctors, nurses, and other support staff that are treating the beloved fur-babies. Those professionals enter the field because of their love, passion, and commitment to the creatures that enter through their office doors. While in school, I had the opportunity to work in this area and have first-hand experience behind the scenes.

Allow me to introduce you to a treatment called EMDR. EMDR stands for Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing. I know… it’s a mouthful! Stay with me for a moment, as this is just a fancy title for a treatment that helps our traumatic memories become less disturbing. The memory of a troubling event (or phobia) can get “stuck” in our mind or body.

The pain born of such suffering can paralyze us, leaving us broken inside and barely getting by with the motions of life. Whether we remain stuck or move forward is determined in large part by our resilience.

Are you filling in the blanks for others? Knowing and accepting that we cannot control other’s thoughts and feelings have been part of my process, and they might be a part of yours too.

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While everyone is affected by COVID-19 differently, there are at least two ways in which this pandemic has impacted us all. It is important to understand how COVID has influenced us to better understand effective strategies and ways to cope with this new life stressor.

My running partner and I have covered a lot of miles together. I have come to realize she is often the motivator and I’m the detractor. She is like sunshine and I’m like the rain. She soars and I drag my Asics. As we near the top of a steep hill I think “this is where I die” and she shouts “we got this!”