You don’t have to keep
carrying this alone.

Trauma isn’t just what happened to you — it’s what happened inside you as a result. The way your body learned to brace. The way your mind circles back. The way you can be in the middle of an ordinary day and suddenly not be okay.

I work with a range of traumatic experiences — single-incident traumas, complex developmental trauma, and PTSD. One of my primary approaches is EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing), a research-supported therapy that works differently from traditional talk therapy. Rather than requiring you to repeatedly retell your story, EMDR uses bilateral stimulation to help the brain finally process experiences it got stuck on — so the memory loses its charge. What once felt raw and present begins to feel like something that happened, rather than something that’s still happening. Combined with somatic awareness and other trauma-informed approaches, we work to release what the nervous system has been holding so it doesn’t have to run the show anymore.

This work doesn’t require you to relive every detail. It requires willingness — and we build that together at your pace.

The goal isn’t to erase what happened. It’s to help your past take up its proper place — so it no longer dictates your present.

This may resonate if you…

• Experience flashbacks, nightmares, or intrusive memories
• Feel chronically on edge or emotionally numb
• Avoid people, places, or conversations that feel unsafe
• Struggle with trust, intimacy, or feeling present in your own life
• Sense that something happened that changed you — even if it’s hard to name

This may resonate if you…

• Grew up in a home with addiction, mental illness, or emotional instability
• Find yourself repeating patterns you swore you’d never repeat
• Feel responsible for everyone around you — and exhausted by it
• Have complicated feelings about your family that are hard to sort through
• Struggle to know who you are outside of the role you played growing up

We don’t choose the families we grow up in. But the emotional climate of those early years becomes the water we swim in — shaping how we see ourselves, how we relate, how we cope. Often without realizing it.

Much of what I do is helping people understand the invisible rules and roles they learned in childhood — and gently begin to rewrite them. This isn’t about blaming your family. It’s about understanding how your past is showing up in your present, so you can finally have some say in it.

You can love your family and still grieve what you didn’t get. Both things get to be true here.

As these old patterns loosen, many people find themselves making choices that feel more like their own.

Low self-esteem isn’t a personality flaw. It’s usually a very old wound — a message you received early on about your worth, your lovability, your right to take up space. You learned it so young it feels like just “who you are.” It isn’t.

Identity questions can feel disorienting at any age — who am I outside of this relationship, this role, this version of me people expect? We slow down and look at the beliefs underneath: where they came from, whether they’re actually true, and who you want to become now that you get to choose.

This work is quieter than crisis work. And sometimes the quietest work goes the deepest.

Over time, your worth begins to feel less like something you have to earn and more like something that was there all along.

This may resonate if you…

• Have a persistent inner critic that never seems to quiet down
• Struggle to feel deserving of good things — relationships, success, rest
• Feel like you’re performing a version of yourself rather than living as yourself
• Are in a major life transition and don’t know who you are on the other side
• Find it easier to care for others than to extend that same care to yourself

This may resonate if you…

• Worry constantly, even when things are “fine”
• Struggle to stay present — your mind is always in the future or past
• Feel a low-level sadness or emptiness you can’t fully explain
• Experience physical symptoms — tension, fatigue, stomach knots — from emotional stress
• Feel like you have to hold it together for everyone else — and secretly wonder when you’ll break

Anxiety is one of the most common reasons people come to therapy — and one of the most misunderstood. It’s not weakness, and it’s not in your head. It’s your nervous system working overtime to protect you, often based on very old information.

Emotional pain is broader — grief, loss, chronic sadness, the kind of hurt that doesn’t have a clean diagnosis. All of it belongs in therapy. We look at where the anxiety is rooted, what emotional pain you might be carrying that hasn’t had room to be felt, and begin to shift the patterns keeping you stuck.

You don’t have to understand it to start. You just have to be willing to look.

The goal isn’t to eliminate every worry. It’s to help you feel safe enough to live your life instead of constantly preparing for danger.

Addiction is almost never just about the substance or behavior. It’s about pain that needed somewhere to go. Something that started as relief — or escape, or connection, or numbness — that over time became its own problem.

I work with people in active recovery, people who are questioning their relationship with substances or behaviors, and people who grew up with addiction in their family of origin. This work is non-judgmental — always. Shame doesn’t heal addiction. Understanding does.

Whether you’re newly sober, years into recovery, or still figuring out where you stand — you’re welcome here.

Recovery isn’t just about stopping. It’s about building a life you no longer need to escape from.

This may resonate if you…

• Are in recovery and want support beyond sobriety — actually healing what’s underneath
• Wonder if your relationship with alcohol, substances, or certain behaviors has become a problem
• Grew up in a home where addiction was present and are still feeling the effects
• Use coping mechanisms you know aren’t serving you but can’t seem to stop
• Carry shame about your past or your patterns and need a space free of judgment

This may resonate if you…

• Are living with a chronic illness, pain condition, or health diagnosis
• Grieve the life or version of yourself you had before your diagnosis
• Feel dismissed, unheard, or misunderstood by the medical system
• Struggle with anxiety, depression, or identity shifts that come with chronic illness
• Want support that acknowledges your body and your emotional experience together

Living with chronic illness or pain is its own kind of grief. Your body has changed. Your plans have changed. Your sense of who you are — what you can do, who you’ll be — has changed. And often, the emotional weight of that goes unacknowledged in medical care.

Therapy can’t cure illness. But it can help you find yourself again inside it. We work on processing grief, building resilience, navigating identity shifts, and finding a sense of agency when so much feels out of your control.

Your illness is part of your story. It doesn’t have to be all of it.

Many people find that even when the physical experience doesn’t change, they begin to feel like themselves again — more than the diagnosis, more than the pain.