Trauma-Specialized Therapy

Trauma-specialized therapy might be right for you if

  • You’ve tried traditional talk therapy, and it hasn’t felt deep enough 

  • You understand your trauma(s), but still feel stuck

  • You’re constantly toggling between present reality, distressing memories, and/or strategizing to feel safer

  • You can’t have the life you want because your brain and body are chronically hyper-sensitive to threat / risk

  • Dreaded instinctual states can take over at any moment – like becoming on edge, self-critical, fearful, numb, spaced out, defeated, anticipating rejection, or even worse, several at once

Trauma-informed therapy is a must if you actually want to heal and transform deeper roots of your trauma. I’ve devoted 12+ years of experience and trainings to specializing in trauma.

When therapy isn’t trauma-informed enough, you might find that deeper layers of your challenges and experiences aren’t getting addressed. And in worse cases, therapy that isn’t trauma-informed could inadvertently reinforce triggering and stuckness. Not only would these experiences become barriers to progress, they might also cause you to feel even more frustrated, lost, and hopeless.

Therapy that effectively addresses trauma is informed by research and is sensitive to your subtleties and nuances. And it provides actionable practices to help you heal and move forward.

I’m confident our collaboration can help you achieve more stabilization. We can engage your inner healing intelligence to promote deeper healing and transformation, through practice. And you’ll get to do this sacred work in a therapy space that avoids replicating our dominant colonial cultures’ harmful beliefs (i.e., the roots of many traumatic injuries and intergenerational traumas). As a next step, reach out for a free 15-minute consultation call.

  • Trauma-related manifestations include: 

    • Re-experiencing of traumatic memories

    • Chronic avoidance of potentially triggering situations and stimuli

    • Recurring nightmares

    • Patterns of overwhelm and dysregulation

    • Dissociative experiences

    • Beliefs about being doomed or about being destined to live a shortened life

    Many of the following could also be trauma-related:

    • Certain manifestations of anxiety, phobias, and depressed mood

    • Self-sabotaging patterns

    • Difficulties in relationships

    • Perfectionism and being overly self-critical

    • Low self-esteem

    • People-pleasing

    • Excessive guilt and shame

    • Compulsive / addictive behaviors

    • Suicidal ideation

My trauma-informed practice prioritizes

Personalized, actionable practices that engage and cultivate your inner healing intelligence

Research about trauma, the brain / nervous system, and mind-body unity

Prevention of re-traumatization in therapy by dominant cultures’ harmful influences

Imagine…

Starting therapy

  • Constantly overwhelmed and drained by triggering

  • Confused by distressing inner conflicts

  • Struggling to stay present

To six months into therapy

  • Being triggered less intensely and frequently

  • Equipped with an internal map that helps you stay true to yourself

  • More confident you can get regulated, present, and embodied

To a year into therapy 

  • More peaceful and emotionally stable

  • More sense of choice and direction in your life

  • More able to invite and enjoy connection, pleasure, joy

Let’s connect, as a next step!