Compassionate & Trauma-Focused Care
Addressing Emotional, Cognitive, Behavioral & Relationship Challenges
A Wide Range of Therapy Services and Approaches, Tailored to You
Services
Individual Therapy
In individual therapy, I support people working through anxiety, phobias, depression, compulsive behaviors, grief and loss, fear, confusion, feeling stuck, relationship challenges, stress, somatic symptoms, PTSD, Complex PTSD, and more.
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What I want you to know is this: you were born with an innate capacity to grow, heal, and create a meaningful life. But at times, this capacity becomes blocked, and our inner world fills with unwelcome emotions or behaviors that don’t make sense at first. Left unaddressed, these reactions can become our “normal,” shaping how we see ourselves and what we expect from life. When this happens, symptoms are not failures—they’re purposeful signals calling for deeper attention.
Therapy offers a safe, relational container to slow down, listen inwardly, and discover what these signals are trying to communicate. My approach is grounded in depth-oriented, soul-based psychotherapy—work that unfolds slowly, relationally, and uniquely according to the rhythm of your own inner life. It is less about eliminating symptoms and more about supporting the maturation of your wholeness, the awakening of your heart, and the unfolding of who you truly are. Drawing from trauma-informed depth psychology, relational and contemplative neuroscience, and meditative traditions, I offer a compassionate, steady presence as we walk this path together. Step by step, you’ll discover renewed clarity, confidence, and trust in yourself. I’m here and ready whenever you are.
Couples Therapy
My practice blends the principles of PACT (Psychobiological Approach to Couples Therapy) with Emotionally Focused Therapy to help couples build secure, resilient, and deeply connected relationships.
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Grounded in attachment theory, neuroscience, and nervous system regulation, PACT offers a dynamic, moment-to-moment understanding of how partners influence one another through facial expressions, tone, micro-behaviors, and arousal patterns. EFT complements this by guiding couples into the emotional heart of their patterns—helping partners identify unmet needs, soften defenses, and cultivate vulnerable, healing communication. Together, these approaches create a powerful framework: partners learn to co-regulate, repair quickly, interrupt destructive cycles, and create a secure-functioning relationship where both people feel seen, safe, and prioritized. Sessions move between experiential exercises, real-time interaction, and supportive emotional processing so couples not only understand their dynamics but experience new ways of being together. This integrated approach helps relationships become more stable, intimate, and mutually empowering.
Family Therapy
In my family therapy work, I help families understand the neuroaffective impact of dysfunctional dynamics—especially patterns of abandonment, self-abandonment, and emotional mis-attunement.
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These experiences shape the nervous system, influencing stress levels, trust, and how each member learns to protect or disconnect from themselves and others. Using evidence-based approaches such as Family Systems, Structural Therapy, CBFT, EFFT, and Solution-Focused work, I map the hidden patterns that keep the household stuck and teach healthier communication, boundaries, and co-regulation. Sessions blend root-cause exploration with somatic grounding to restore emotional safety and strengthen secure attachments. Even when not all members can participate, meaningful shifts still ripple throughout the system. I also help families build coordinated rhythms at home—and when needed, between home and school—to reinforce progress. My role is to create a compassionate, stable therapeutic space where your family can reconnect, repair, and move toward more harmonious and nourishing relationships.
Trauma & Stress Therapy
As a trauma therapist, utilizing interventions such as EMDR and Brainspotting, I work closely with individuals navigating PTSD caused by events or Complex PTSD and the broad spectrum of traumatic experiences—whether rooted in childhood, accidents, abuse, medical or relational trauma, natural disasters, grief, or combat.
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Trauma leaves real imprints in both the mind and body, and symptoms such as intrusive memories, flashbacks, nightmares, panic, insomnia, avoidance, or emotional numbing are not signs of weakness—they are the nervous system’s best attempt to protect you when it has been overwhelmed. In my practice, I take these signals seriously, offering a grounded, trauma-informed approach that weaves together depth psychology, somatic and experiential therapy, EMDR, and nervous-system–based healing.
Stress and trauma activate instinctive survival responses—fight, flight, freeze, or collapse. Trauma occurs when these ancient reflexes become stuck, creating what I call trauma-memory: sensory and emotional fragments that cannot integrate into coherent whole-memory. Therapy gently brings these fragments back together—like moving along a color gradient from confusion to clarity—allowing trapped emotions and incomplete body responses to finally release and resolve. As trauma-memory transforms into whole-memory, triggers soften, breath deepens, muscles relax, and a steadier, clearer sense of self becomes possible.
My work is devoted to helping you reclaim your innate capacity to heal. With compassion, steadiness, and attuned support, I help create a safe relational space where your system can slow down, reorganize, and reconnect with the vitality and wholeness that may have felt out of reach. This work is not about forcing change—it’s about allowing healing to unfold at the pace your nervous system is ready for. To learn more, please visit the “Experiential Therapy” section below.
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Traumatic stress changes how memory is formed. Instead of creating a coherent whole-memory, the brain scatters the experience into fragments of sensation, emotion, and imagery. Later, when any fragment is triggered—often without our awareness—it reignites like a spark, leading to sudden emotional reactions, body symptoms, mood swings, dreams, anxiety, or dissociation. These “sparks” are the symptoms of trauma.
Trauma is therefore not defined by the external event itself, but by what happens inside the nervous system when it becomes overwhelmed.
Experiential therapies are effective for trauma because they work directly with these deeper layers of experience. They help the system gradually reconnect the fragmented pieces, release their stored energy, and rebuild a sense of coherence and safety.
Whatever happened back then—no matter how long ago—healing is possible, and your life can meaningfully change.
Therapeutic Approaches
A broad and flexible therapeutic toolbox allows me to meet you exactly where you are and tailor the work to your unique needs. My approach draws from multiple bodies of knowledge in mental health, human development, and evidence-based psychotherapy, integrating complementary models to support healing on emotional, cognitive, somatic, and relational levels. Each method offers its own doorway into insight and transformation, and together they create a responsive, holistic framework for your growth.
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Helps you understand and heal the inner “parts” of yourself—such as protectors, exiles, and managers—by fostering curiosity, compassion, and internal harmony.
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Supports healing by working directly with the body’s sensations, impulses, and nervous system patterns to release stored tension, trauma, and emotional overwhelm.
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Uses bilateral stimulation to help the brain reprocess disturbing memories so they lose their emotional charge and integrate into a coherent, adaptive narrative.
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Accesses deeper layers of the brain through visual fixation points, allowing unresolved trauma and emotional blockages to surface and release naturally.
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Gently uncovers the unconscious emotional truths driving unwanted symptoms, allowing meaningful transformation through integration rather than willpower.
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Focuses on present-moment experience and the therapeutic relationship to increase awareness, authenticity, and emotional flexibility.
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Cultivates the ability to observe thoughts, feelings, and sensations with presence and openness, creating space for self-regulation and insight.
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Illuminate how early relational patterns shape the nervous system, emotional responses, and connection styles—while offering pathways toward secure functioning.
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Explore how relational dynamics, roles, and intergenerational patterns influence current struggles, empowering healthier boundaries and communication.
Experiential Psychotherapy
Experiential Psychotherapy is an umbrella term for therapeutic approaches rooted in how the nervous system actually functions—especially how emotions show up in the body as sensations, impulses, and a “felt sense.” Rather than staying focused on thoughts or the stories we tell ourselves, experiential work gently shifts attention toward what is happening right now in the body, all within the safety of a supportive therapeutic relationship.
At its heart, Experiential Psychotherapy helps us access a deeper truth beneath our thinking. By tuning into subtle signals that often go unnoticed, we uncover missing pieces of experience that want to be felt, understood, and integrated. As we learn to listen to what the body is communicating, confusion can soften into clarity, stuckness can begin to move, and feelings of disconnection can give way to a sense of presence and wholeness. This work also involves discovering the different “parts” within us—each with its own feelings, intentions, and protective roles—and learning to relate to them with compassion.
Understanding Stress & Trauma
Traumatic stress changes how memory is formed. Instead of creating a coherent whole-memory, the brain scatters the experience into fragments of sensation, emotion, and imagery. Later, when any fragment is triggered—often without our awareness—it reignites like a spark, leading to sudden emotional reactions, body symptoms, mood swings, dreams, anxiety, or dissociation. These “sparks” are the symptoms of trauma.
Trauma is therefore not defined by the external event itself, but by what happens inside the nervous system when it becomes overwhelmed.
Experiential therapies are effective for trauma because they work directly with these deeper layers of experience. They help the system gradually reconnect the fragmented pieces, release their stored energy, and rebuild a sense of coherence and safety.
Whatever happened back then—no matter how long ago—healing is possible, and your life can meaningfully change.
