Integrative Trauma Therapy

Somatic Experiencing • EMDR Therapy • Internal Family Systems • EMDR Certification

Although you have survived, the impact of what you have endured has resulted in self-doubt, worry, and fear. You’ve lived in a state of being that is tense and on guard. You have a hard time realizing how courageous and brave you are because you had no other choice but to find ways to move forward on your own. You’ve reached a point where you know the armor you needed to protect yourself from the pain you’ve endured is no longer serving you, but you struggle to feel safe enough, secure enough, and free enough to show up authentically in your life in the ways you most desire.

You’d give anything to fully experience joy, connection, and acceptance, but you are constantly sacrificing it at the expense of feeling like something is terribly wrong with you or something terribly wrong will happen. You want to be able to express your needs without fear of judgment, to fully embody your authenticity without the reciprocal feelings of shame and guilt rushing forward when you reach out from the inside and take a step toward vulnerability.

In your best attempts to cope with your past, you’ve disconnected from your needs and the core of who you are. Not because you wanted to, but because you had to. Your history taught you to ignore your instincts and has left you feeling insecure about trusting yourself. At times, you may feel disconnected from others and detached.

Trauma has deprived you of some of your most basic needs such as connection, playfulness, safety, and trust. What if you could reclaim them? The first step is recognizing that you are not broken, you are not alone, and that your responses are natural. Symptoms such as depression, irritability, and numbing although scary and shame inducing enabled you to manage your feelings, regulate overwhelming sensations, and serve to protect you.

Imagine if you could find compassion and a new understanding of every part of who you are. What if a felt-sense of safety could be absorbed by every aspect of who you are and in the nervous system so that calm can flourish and change can happen. When this happens our overall physiology settles into its natural healing capacity and from this, authentic well-being can blossom and we can face the hard things. I believe that underneath all of the heartache and fear that originated from your experiences, there is a wise and centered you, one that emanates calm and wisdom. Your purest form of Self already exists; all this time it has remained intact, but it had been buried by your experiences and all the many ways you’ve had to protect yourself.

I help individuals reclaim who they are at their core by facilitating reconnection to their inner sense of safety and centeredness. I gently guide and support clients in practices that facilitate a reconnection with their core being through modalities like EMDR Therapy, Somatic Experiencing, and the Internal Family Systems Model. Through restorative practices and specialized trauma-centered treatment, we will focus on more than just increasing awareness; we will focus on reframing the way your brain and body interact with and experience the world around you to achieve a restorative sense of self.