Brittany Ertz

Brittany Ertz (Britt) specializes in working with individual teens, young adults, adults, and families who are struggling with trauma. She also specializes in treating self-harm, anxiety, depression, and life transitions. Britt understands that our lives can feel broken and fragmented. Sometimes we look down at the pieces and wonder how we got here. She has a way of connecting our current experiences to our past to heal for our future, to mold those broken pieces together. 

She is trained in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), which focuses on ultimately healing from traumatic memories. Emotion Focused Therapy (EFT), and Trauma Informed Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TI-CBT) which will help validate and connect your interpersonal emotions whilst challenging unhelpful or harmful ways of thinking. Britt will connect, empathize, and support you as you dive into what seems uncomfortable at first, but in the end, is a beautiful journey. Using integrated therapies, she will help you learn how to discover and challenge your thoughts, uncover hidden or unresolved traumas, and heal from within oneself.

From her own life, Britt understands the bouts of loneliness that we can feel, and that this world is not short of suffering. But there is always hope, and even in the darkest moments there is always a flicker of light. Britt will work hard to shield her clients from loneliness and help them take that small step they need to heal from the pain or hurt. If you’ve ever seen kintsugi, it is a piece of pottery that has been fixed from a broken and fragmented mess. Kintsugi allows for the pottery to be healed by pulling the fragmented pieces together and inserting a gold or silver filament and cementing the pieces together. That is what Britt feels life, and especially, therapy, is like. It’s pulling these broken pieces together from hope, light, healing, community and a little creativity, to create a new and beautiful creation.

You can trust Britt to create a welcoming and empathetic environment where you are able to explore the deepest facets of your thoughts and emotions. She works within the framework that you are the expert on your own life and you are allowing her to partner alongside you, to listen and to care so that you truly don’t feel alone in your life. 

Britt enjoys traveling, finding new coffee shops, going to the gym, and reading. She and her husband, Cisco, love serving at their church and enjoying the company of friends. 

One of Britt’s favorite quotes is by Irvin Yalom: 

“We cannot say to them you and your problems. Instead, we must speak of us and our problems, because our life, our existence, will always be riveted to death, love to loss, freedom to fear, and growth to separation. We are, all of us, in this together."