Trauma & PTSD Therapy
Trauma changes how you move through the world. The body learns to expect threat. It can change how you trust, how you relax, and how you love.
Sometimes the memories show up uninvited; sometimes they go underground for years and surface in patterns you can't quite trace back to their source.
I trained as a trauma specialist at university counseling centers and a Veterans Affairs PTSD clinic, working with some of the most complex presentations a therapist sees. We will discuss the best approach for you. My primary trauma approach is based in feminist-humanistic therapy. This means we always go at your pace, and make sure you feel safe throughout.
I'm a certified provider of Prolonged Exposure (PE) and Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT). I've spent over a decade helping people work through the kinds of harm that show up on the diagnostic criteria — and the kinds that don't. Let's talk through the options and find a treatment that fits your needs.
Adults processing:
- Sexual assault and sexual abuse, recent or historical
- Interpersonal violence and intimate partner abuse
- Accidents, medical trauma, and life-threatening events
- Combat and military service-related trauma
- Childhood abuse, neglect, and family-of-origin harm
- The slower, relational kinds of harm — coercive control, chronic invalidation, and the cumulative weight of being unsafe in places that should have been safe
You don't need a PTSD diagnosis to do trauma work here. Plenty of people carry experiences that affect them deeply without meeting full diagnostic criteria. That's still trauma. We can still work with it.
Collaborative and paced
Trauma therapy isn't about reliving — it's about processing. We move at a speed your nervous system can metabolize. Early on, we get a clear picture of what you've been carrying, build practical skills for managing the symptoms that are most disruptive, and start making the connections between what happened and how you're functioning now. I often use the analogy of a ripple in a pond. We can spend time working through the outer rings until we feel safe enough to address the more central impact.
When you're ready, we use evidence-based approaches — PE, CPT, or a more integrative trauma-focused approach — to do the actual processing work.
The goal is not just symptom reduction. The goal is for the trauma to take up less room in your life so the rest of you has space to live.Approach
Clinical rigor and genuine warmth
My trauma work is grounded in evidence and shaped by a feminist-interpersonal sensibility. That means I pay attention to power, context, and the relational fabric of harm — not as theory but as the actual texture of how trauma affects people. I bring clinical rigor and genuine warmth in equal measure. Both are required for this work.
Request a free consultation.
A 15-minute call to talk through what you're carrying and whether this is the right fit.
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