Trauma Recovery

Sometimes trauma is recent or also at any point across the lifespan leading to carrying around the pain and impact for a long time. Throughout my training, education, and experience I have worked with individuals dealing with trauma from childhood and also more recent trauma including psychological, emotional, physical and/or sexual abuse. My past research experience and dissertation were also focused on intimate partner violence (particularly within the LGBTQIA+ population) and recovery from wounds created from these experiences. I have provided both individual therapy with trauma as well as co-facilitated women's empowerment groups as well. I draw from my general relational and interpersonal approach to therapy and also more specifically different research backed approaches such as cognitive processing therapy, narrative therapy, creative/expressive techniques, nightmare rescripting, and also body focused interventions.

Trauma affects so many people and each person's experience and impacts of trauma is unique. I have worked hard to learn and implement a wide variety of evidence based techniques and interventions in order to meet the specific and unique needs of each individual. Often times trauma can result in difficulties around self-esteem, shame, staying in unhealthy or toxic relationships, difficulties implementing and maintaining boundaries, stuck in the fight/flight/or freeze response, nightmares, and more broadly depression and anxiety. I truly believe that through our work together, you can not only survive, but thrive through working on your path of healing.