Eileen Bowman, LCSW
Specializations
Work
Sexual Abuse Survivors
Post-Abortive Issues
Relationship & Family Issues
Sex Therapy
Eileen Bowman, LCSW has 25 years of experience doing individual, marriage and family therapy, as well as, working with people through various trials in life, helping them to find healing, restoration and wholeness. She is highly empathetic, which is why her clients report feeling seen, heard and understood. Her area of clinical expertise is working with 'couples in crisis' and helping them to find hope, healing, and peace in their marriages after betrayal.
She has been trained through APSATS, the Association of Partners of Sex Addicts Trauma Specialists, working towards her certification. When working with sexual betrayal, her focus usually begins by developing safety, empathy, accountability, transparency, and intimacy. She often focuses on finding stabilization, managing emotional intensity, and establishing boundaries. She also work on plans for triggers, relapse prevention, as well as, disclosure. She is passionate about guiding couples through this difficult process and helping them recover from the devastation of infidelity, betrayal, and/ or sexual addiction. Eileen lives with the awareness that without humility, true remorse, as well as, forgiveness, marriages can have a difficult time surviving much less thriving. She has a great deal of empathy for couples going through the crisis of discovery and/or the confession of sexual betrayal. Her counseling of partners is based on a Trauma model. Most, if not all of the partners, have symptoms of C-PTSD (Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder). She works to help them to understand what is happening and equips them with the tools they need in order to find healing.
Eileen also greatly enjoys working with couples that are just struggling to communicate effectively or are having issues with parenting or needing help with intimacy issues. She has training in helping couples achieve greater satisfaction sexually and communicating more effectively around the subject of sexual intimacy.
Eileen is highly skilled at working with clients for a variety of other issues, such as: depression, anxiety, grief and loss, infertility, life transitions, divorce, trauma, recovering from narcissistic abuse, post-abortive issues, shame, PTSD, divorcing a narcissist, as well as, helping individuals navigate and recover from parental alienation. She enjoys walking along side of individuals as they encounter the storms of life. Sometimes that may be just being a support, offering wisdom and suggesting ways to approach situations. She counsels primarily from a Christian perspective, and is open to meeting clients who have a different worldview. She considers it an honor to walk with clients on their journeys, whatever that may be.
In her free time, Eileen enjoys the beach, riding her bike, hiking in the mountains, doing holy yoga, decorating her home, cooking healthy dishes, spending time hanging with her friends and family, reading books on subjects she finds fascinating, traveling to new places, and trying new restaurants.