Trauma Informed Care
Trauma is not always defined by a single event.
Sometimes it looks like growing up in an unpredictable home. Learning to walk on eggshells. Becoming responsible for other people's emotions. Feeling unseen, unsafe, or alone. Sometimes it emerges later through relationships, parenthood, pregnancy, loss, or life transitions that awaken old wounds we thought we had long outgrown.
Many people living with the effects of trauma do not realize how much of their daily experience has been shaped by survival. Anxiety, perfectionism, people pleasing, difficulty trusting others, emotional overwhelm, relationship challenges, and a harsh inner critic are often adaptations that once served an important purpose.
Therapy can help you understand these patterns with greater compassion and curiosity rather than judgment.
What is Trauma-Informed Therapy?
Trauma informed therapy recognizes the profound impact that past experiences can have on our emotions, relationships, nervous system, sense of self, and ability to feel safe in the world.
Rather than asking, "What's wrong with you?" trauma informed care asks, "What happened to you?"
Healing does not require reliving every painful memory. It begins by understanding how your experiences have shaped you and creating new ways of relating to yourself and others.
Areas of Support
• Childhood trauma and adverse childhood experiences
• Sexual abuse and sexual assault
• Attachment wounds
• Family of origin issues
• Emotional neglect
• Relationship trauma
• Anxiety and chronic stress
• People pleasing and perfectionism
• Low self worth and shame
• Parenting through trauma
• Pregnancy, postpartum, and reproductive experiences that activate past wounds
My Approach
My work is grounded in trauma informed care, attachment theory, psychodynamic therapy, mindfulness, and evidence based approaches to trauma treatment.
Together, we explore the patterns that have developed in response to past experiences while building greater self awareness, emotional resilience, and capacity for connection. Therapy moves at a pace that feels safe and manageable, honoring both your strengths and your story.
Healing Is Possible
The goal of therapy is not to erase your past.
It is to help you understand how it continues to shape your present, so that you can make choices rooted in intention rather than survival.
Many of the people I work with come to therapy because they want something different for themselves, their relationships, or their children.
Healing often begins with understanding the story you have been carrying and recognizing that it does not have to determine the rest of your life.