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Milford, Delaware | Telehealth throughout Delaware
You can understand your trauma and still feel consumed by shame. You can know where your reactions come from and still struggle to change them. You can spend years trying to make sense of yourself and wonder why knowing isn't enough.
At Open Minds Therapy, we work with the parts of you that learned to survive, the reactions that still take over, and the experiences your body hasn't been able to leave behind. We don't treat your defenses as character flaws or ask you to force your way through pain. We work to understand what those responses have been doing for you, what they cost you now, and what might become possible when you no longer have to rely on them in the same way.
Our approach is trauma-focused, parts-informed, and grounded in the relationship between your body, your nervous system, and your internal world. We offer LGBTQIA2S+ affirming care for people who are ready to understand themselves differently and begin living differently, too.
Telehealth appointments are available throughout Delaware. We participate with several commercial insurance and Delaware Medicaid plans. Visit our Fees and Insurance page for current coverage information.
Who we work with
You may understand where your reactions began. You may have spent years reflecting, trying to change, and doing your best to move forward. Still, shame takes over. Your body reacts before you can think. The same patterns return, even when you understand exactly where they came from.
Understanding matters. Sometimes, it just hasn't been enough.
You can explain your patterns, but still feel caught in them.
A mistake or conflict can leave you feeling like you're a bad person.
You shut down, react intensely, or feel pulled in different directions.
You feel disconnected from your body, your emotions, or what you need.
You've tried therapy before, but understanding your past hasn't changed how you feel day to day.
You hold it together for everyone else, then feel overwhelmed when you're alone.
Your emotions either flood you or feel completely out of reach.
Our approach
Every modality we use is oriented toward the same goal: helping you develop a different relationship with your internal experience - not just manage it from the outside.
Parts work approaches the mind as an internal system shaped by experience. Therapy helps clients understand protective responses, approach internal conflict with curiosity, and develop a more intentional relationship with their emotions and needs.
Trauma and chronic stress can shape emotional, cognitive, and physiological responses. Somatic therapy helps clients notice how stress appears in the body and develop ways to respond with greater awareness and regulation.
EMDR is an evidence-based trauma treatment designed to support adaptive processing and reduce distress associated with traumatic memories. Treatment is paced according to each client's needs, readiness, and goals.
CBT helps clients identify connections between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. It provides structured tools for examining unhelpful patterns and developing more adaptive responses to distress.
Mindfulness practices support present-moment awareness and a non-judgmental relationship with internal experience. These approaches are integrated into treatment to support regulation and reduce reactivity over time.
Some experiences are difficult to reach through explanation alone. Depth-oriented therapy makes room for the symbolic and imaginal life of the psyche. Through archetypes, dreams, recurring images, stories, and the parts that emerge in your inner world, we explore the meanings these experiences may carry about your history, relationships, fears, and unmet needs.
We meet these inner figures with curiosity rather than judgment, exploring what they represent and how they relate to your lived experience. The work helps bring less conscious patterns into awareness and creates room for a different relationship with yourself.
Therapy process
Therapy may support greater emotional awareness, increased capacity to remain present during distress, and more choice in how a person responds to established patterns. The focus and pace are shaped by each client's needs and treatment goals.
About the Practice
Open Minds Therapy is a trauma-specialized group practice based in Milford, Delaware, with statewide telehealth availability. Our clinicians are trained in depth-oriented, somatically informed approaches - including parts work, EMDR, and nervous system regulation - and bring genuine clinical rigor to every session.
We work with adults navigating complex trauma, chronic anxiety, emotional overwhelm, dissociation, and identity-related stress. We also provide affirming care for LGBTQIA2S+ clients and those whose experiences have been minimized or misunderstood in other settings.
Our work is paced to the person in front of us, with attention to regulation, daily functioning, and individual goals.
A free consultation is a low-pressure way to ask questions, get a sense of our approach, and find out whether we're a good fit. There's no commitment required.
We'll talk about what's bringing you in, what you've tried before, and what you're hoping for. That's it.
Telehealth available statewide across Delaware