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Services

Trauma and PTSD Therapy

You set the pace. Nothing gets pried open on a schedule that isn't yours.

Trauma work here is trauma-focused and somatic as much as it is verbal. I have worked with people through child protection, foster care, a locked adolescent residential unit and private practice, which means very little is shocking to me and nothing needs to be performed for me.

"My clients come in and they want to talk about the color pink. I'll talk about the color pink. All session. Maybe that conversation about the color pink opened a door to dealing with the trauma they had in their childhood."

Sessions attend to what your nervous system is doing, not only to the story. Some weeks that is grounding and sleep. Some weeks it is memory. Both count as progress.

In This Work

  • Childhood and developmental trauma
  • Single-incident and complex PTSD
  • Nervous system regulation and sleep
  • Foster, adoption and system-involved histories
  • Trauma-focused, somatic and attachment-based work

Next Step

Start With a Free 30-Minute Call

A short conversation so I can hear what is going on and we can decide together whether this is the right room for it.

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Go Deeper

Pages on This Work

Therapy for Children After Abuse or Neglect

Nothing happens fast here. A child who has been hurt does not owe anyone their story, and a room that demands one is not a safe room.

Therapy for Adult Survivors of Childhood Abuse

A lot of people arrive here decades late, apologizing for taking up space with something old. It is not old to your nervous system.

Also Available

Autism

Therapy that adjusts to how you think, communicate and regulate.

ADHD

Practical structure, plus room for what carrying ADHD has cost you.

Anxiety

Turning the volume down without pretending the worry is silly.

Grief and Loss

A place to keep talking about it long after other people stopped asking.