I work with adults experiencing PTSD, complex PTSD, developmental and childhood trauma, and the ongoing effects of traumatic experiences.
Therapy for Trauma and PTSD
How Trauma Can Show Up
Trauma can affect how you experience safety, relationships, your body, and your sense of self. You might notice:
Hypervigilance or feeling constantly alert to potential danger
Intrusive memories, nightmares, or flashbacks
Avoiding people, places, situations or memories that are associated with what happened
Dissociation, numbness, or feeling disconnected from yourself or your surroundings
Shame, self-blame, or persistent negative beliefs about yourself
Difficulty trusting other people or feeling safe in close relationships
Feeling stuck in survival mode even when the immediate danger has passed
Changes in identity, self-worth, or your sense of who you are
When trauma occurs repeatedly or early in life, the effects may extend beyond specific memories. Complex trauma can shape how you understand yourself, what you expect from relationships, and what feels safe or threatening.
What Trauma Therapy Can Help With
Trauma therapy can focus on both reducing symptoms and addressing the broader ways that trauma has affected your life.
Depending on what you are experiencing, therapy may help you with any of the following:
Feeling safer and less constantly on alert
Reducing the intensity or frequency of intrusive memories and flashbacks
Better understanding and managing dissociation
Feeling more secure in relationships
Relying less on avoidance to get through daily life
Reducing shame and self-blame
Building more trust in your own judgement
Developing a stronger and more stable sense of identity
For people with complex or developmental trauma, therapy may also involve understanding patterns that developed in response to these earlier experiences and finding ways of relating to yourself and others while finding new ways of relating to yourself and others.
My Approach to Trauma Therapy
I work with both the immediate symptoms of trauma and the ways that trauma can affect identity, relationships, and self-worth over time.
My approach includes structured trauma-processing methods to work with specific trauma memories. I use EMDR as my primary approach while also drawing from Internal Family Systems (IFS), attachment-focused therapy, and somatic approaches.
The traumatic experiences that you have had will shape our approach to the work, including a focus on how it is affecting you now and what you want to change. For some people, this means focusing heavily on processing memories. For others, this also includes understanding and addressing longstanding relationships patterns, strengthening a sense of self, and addressing ways of coping that developed in response to trauma.
EMDR is a structured approach to trauma treatment that can help reduce distress associated with traumatic memories and the beliefs, emotions, and body responses connected to them.
Complex and Developmental Trauma
Trauma that happens repeatedly within important relationships (especially in childhood) can have effects that extend beyond specific memories or symptoms.
For people with complex or developemental trauma, therapy may involve exploring how these early experiences shaped expectations about safety, closeness, trust, and self-worth. Treatment may also address patterns that were adaptive when they developed but which now negatively affect your relationships or daily life.
For more specific information about therapy related to childhood sexual abuse, you can read about therapy for adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse.
Experience Working with Trauma
I have specialized in trauma treatment since 2017 and am certified in EMDR Therapy through EMDRIA. My clinical work history includes work with PTSD, complex trauma, childhood trauma, and related concerns.
You can read more about my training and clinical background on my About page.
Get Started
If you are interested in working with me to address the symptoms of trauma in your life, contact me and I will get back to you within two business days.