Complex & Relational Trauma
You may understand where your patterns came from and still find that they continue to shape how you feel, relate to others, and move through the world. Complex and developmental trauma can show up in many ways, including anxiety, overthinking, difficulty trusting your own needs, self-criticism, people-pleasing, or patterns in relationships that feel difficult to change.
Our work can explore not only what happened in the past, but how those experiences continue to live in your nervous system, relationships, beliefs, and sense of self. I draw from IFS, EMDR, NARM, somatic therapy, and mindfulness to support change at a pace that respects your autonomy and feels manageable.
Parts Work & Self-Trust
We all have different parts of ourselves, shaped by our experiences and the ways we've learned to move through the world. Parts work offers a way to become curious about these different aspects of your experience without assuming that any of them need to be fixed, changed, or gotten rid of.
Drawing especially from Internal Family Systems (IFS), we can listen more closely to what emerges in your experience and explore it with curiosity and compassion. Over time, this can create more space within yourself and support a deeper sense of self-understanding, self-trust, and choice.
Attachment & Relationships
The ways we learned to navigate closeness, conflict, and connection can continue to shape our relationships long after we understand where those patterns began. You may find it difficult to stay connected to your own needs, trust yourself or others, or step out of relationship patterns you understand but still find yourself repeating.
Therapy can help us explore these patterns without reducing them to something “wrong” with you. Together, we can make more space for your needs, boundaries, vulnerability, and discernment so that relationships can become places where you are more able to remain connected to yourself.
Areas of Expertise
Therapeutic Approach
I believe therapy works best when it is collaborative, curious, and responsive to the person in front of me. Rather than following a predetermined process, I draw from different approaches depending on what is most useful and what emerges in our work together.
Our sessions may include conversation, attention to emotions and relationships, parts work, mindfulness, or noticing what is happening in your body and nervous system. I place particular importance on autonomy and consent, and you are always welcome to slow down, ask questions, disagree with me, or let me know when something doesn't feel right.
My hope is to create a space where you can approach your experience with greater curiosity and compassion, while developing more freedom in how you relate to yourself, your relationships, and your life.
