Trauma Therapy
What is Trauma Informed Therapy?
Trauma can deeply impact our emotional and mental well-being, affecting how we navigate the world. Whether it's due to childhood experiences, past relationships, or societal pressures, trauma can shape who we are and how we interact with others. As a trauma-informed therapist, my goal is to provide a safe, compassionate, and consent-oriented space for people hoping to heal from past experiences and regain a sense of control and well-being.
Trauma informed therapy is a specialized approach to mental health that helps individuals process and heal from traumatic events. In therapy, we explore how past experiences—whether they involve physical, emotional, or psychological harm—continue to affect your life. Traumatic experiences can fracture our sense of time, reality, and relationship to self. We build more tolerance as you connect with your body, increase feelings of safety, and trust in yourself. Together, we’ll create a space to process these emotions, develop coping strategies, and build resilience.
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I value:
Compassionate Care: A collaborative, non-judgmental environment where you can feel heard and supported as you process your experiences.
Identity work: Exploring how factors like race, gender, cultural identity, sexuality, illness, class and other social locations interact with trauma and mental health.
Theory: I am guided by attachment theory, parts work, somatic approaches, mindfulness, and psychodynamic therapy.
Consent: I approach working with trauma with honor and care. This means I strive for sessions to be consent-oriented, moving at a pace that feels safe and supportive for you.
Relationship to your body: I use mindfulness and somatic techniques to increase your ability to connect with your body safely.
Strengths: Together we will honor and work with what’s allowed you to keep going, while acknowledging the spaces where you need change and expansion.
Together we can work on:
Creating more safety within your body
Understanding fight, freeze, flight, and fawn responses
Processing feelings of anxiety, irritability, depression, isolation, disconnection, numbness, shame
Letting go of perfectionism and the harsh self-critic
Moving through overwhelming body sensations such as re-experiencing or flashbacks
Recognizing and shifting negative core beliefs that stem from traumatic experiences (e.g. I am not worthy of love, no one understands me, it’s not okay to feel my emotions, I have to be perfect, etc)
Coping with chronic feelings of emptiness, numbness, feeling “dead inside”
Understanding your relationship to control, safety, choice, and autonomy
Processing the impacts of interpersonal trauma and complex trauma
How trauma impacts your relationship to your body and body image
Learning to connect with and care for all parts of yourself using parts work
Creating stronger relationships
Addressing patterns around people-pleasing and co-dependency
Creating practices to gently hold your feelings of grief, sadness, and loss