Focus Areas:

Trauma Focused Therapy

Trauma treatment starts with a trauma-informed therapist. They know how trauma affects the body and the mind. Working with one means you can trust they understand how complex your pain is, how it shows up in many symptoms, and how it harms mental health. Your story is welcome—there is no story too “small” or too “much.”

Trauma treatment usually has three stages:

  • Safety: Stabilize and prepare you to do trauma work. This includes addressing suicidal or violent thoughts, reducing dissociation, and teaching coping skills.

  • Processing: Work through memories, images, thoughts, and feelings. If you prefer not to talk about the trauma, EMDR is an option because it focuses on bodily responses and doesn’t require talking.

  • Integration: Look back at the progress you’ve made and build a new sense of self—feeling empowered, confident, and able to set boundaries.

Anxiety Focused Therapy

High-functioning anxiety often doesn’t show as panic. It looks like someone who appears fine while feeling overwhelmed inside. Signs include:

  • constant overthinking and second-guessing

  • replaying conversations and worrying you said the wrong thing

  • feeling you must control everything to be okay

  • trouble relaxing even when free time finally comes

  • difficulty sleeping or quieting your mind

  • irritability, impatience, or feeling on edge

  • feeling responsible for everyone and everything

    Therapy can help you: quiet the “what if” loop, lower stress and feel calmer in your body, ease perfectionism and internal pressure, stop over-functioning and people-pleasing, set boundaries without guilt, trust your decisions and feel more confident, and be more present and less emotionally drained.

It’s not about being less driven — it’s about feeling lighter and steadier inside.

Specialties

Initial Consultation

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Included in Initial Consultation:

Get to Know your Therapist

Client Information Gathered

  • Contact Information

  • Insurance or Out of Pocket

  • Availability (2-3 options)

Opportunity for Client Self-Advocacy and Expression of Needs — To Be Heard

Brainstorming Treatment Plan

Distribution of Paperwork


Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR) 

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  • EMDR is an integrative psychotherapeutic approach used to relieve psychological and physical distress. This approach helps in alleviating distressful emotions, images, memories and negative core beliefs.

  • EMDR helps to relieve trapped trauma in the body. Trapped trauma can look like uncontrollable twitching, aches, pains, muscle tension, shaking etc. EMDR can help process through body memories which can occur when you’re processing through trauma. EMDR can also help unstuck memories trapped in the body.

  • In talk therapy, the Therapist actively listens as the individual discusses their thoughts, feelings, behaviors etc. However, many individuals have a difficult time talking about the trauma and get stuck in feeling frozen, scared and often dissociate. This is very common.

    With EMDR, the Therapist will focus only on body sensations and feelings and use Bilateral Stimulation with hand buzzes or headphones to help desensitize the sensations and feelings to help reduce trauma related somatic symptoms.

    Is this Hypnosis?

    EMDR is NOT hypnosis. The individual is awake and aware the whole time and is in control.

Internal Family Systems (IFS) — Parts Work & Somatic Therapy

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  • Internal Family Systems (IFS) is a transformative, evidence-based approach to psychotherapy that helps individuals heal by working with their internal “parts.” Developed by Dr. Richard Schwartz, IFS is based on the idea that the mind is made up of different sub-personalities or “parts,” each with its own thoughts, emotions, and roles. Rather than viewing these parts as dysfunctional, IFS sees them as protective and well-intentioned—even if their methods are no longer helpful. This process is often called “parts work” because it involves gently identifying, listening to, and healing these internal parts to create more inner harmony.

  • Somatic Therapy (ST) is a body-oriented, holistic form of treatment that focuses on the “felt sense” of traumatic experiences. ST focuses on sensations and feelings held in the body. By focusing on the somatic (body) sensations, you become aware of physiological triggers and learn how your body speaks to you and how to listen to what your body needs. This type of approach is beneficial to individuals that are disconnected from their body and have a difficult time identifying sensations in their body. 

Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP)  & Acceptance and Commitment Therapy(ACT)

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  • Exposure with Response Prevention (ERP) is a type of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and the number one treatment for all anxiety-spectrum disorders (including phobias, generalized anxiety, social phobia, panic disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, body dysmorphic disorder and disordered eating). Everyone has anxiety, but some people drive anxiety up by repeatedly engaging in the three behaviors that anxiety lives on:  avoidance, reassurance-seeking and compulsions (or rituals). These three Safety Behaviors are so named because they create an illusion of safety or certainty regarding feared outcomes.

  • Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) teaches people to make their own happiness in life (rather than waiting for it to come along accidentally), by going after things they value.  Values are the things people care about most, things worth living for.  ACT focuses on ACCEPTING thoughts and emotions (which can be very unpleasant a lot of the time), while COMMITTING to living by values anyway (ergo the ACT acronym).  This means that a person can still be doing something meaningful (things that bring them closer to the life they want), while they are having very distressing thoughts and emotions. With ACT, we learn to pursue a rich, full, meaningful life while tolerating the pain that inevitably comes with it.

You are not your trauma. You are your comeback & You were always Meant To Heal.