Trauma-Informed Therapy
EMDR, somatic integration, and attachment-focused care
for adults navigating PTSD and complex trauma
“I used to call my life ‘fine’ and actually mean it—until I realized fine just meant numb. I didn’t know how tightly I’d been bracing until I finally started to let go. Working with a trauma-informed therapist taught me that my body wasn’t broken. It was protecting me. Learning to work with it instead of around it changed the texture of my entire life.”
What is Trauma-Informed Therapy?
Trauma has a way of staying in the body long after the event has passed. You might find yourself on edge without knowing why, pulling away from people you love, or feeling like no matter how hard you try, you can’t fully relax or feel safe. These aren’t signs that something is permanently wrong with you. They’re signs that your nervous system learned to protect you—and now it needs support to do something different.
What Trauma Actually Looks Like
- Anxiety, hypervigilance, or a constant sense of being on edge
- Emotional numbness, disconnection, or feeling “outside yourself”
- Shame, self-blame, or a persistent feeling of being fundamentally broken
- Physical symptoms—chronic tension, pain, fatigue—with no clear medical cause
- Difficulty trusting others or feeling close to people
- Intrusive memories, nightmares, or flashbacks
- Relationship patterns that repeat no matter how hard you try to change them
- Reactions that feel disproportionate but completely out of your control
These aren’t character flaws. They’re adaptations. They made sense once. And with the right support, they can change.
Who I Work With
- Adults carrying childhood trauma, family-of-origin experiences, individuals recovering from abusive or controlling relationships.
- Neglect, emotional unavailability, households where you couldn’t fully relax.
- Survivors of sexual trauma — the work moves at your pace, with no requirement for detailed recounting.
- Survivors of single-incident trauma — car accidents, assaults, medical events, sudden losses.
- People with medical trauma or chronic illness.
- People grieving complicated or traumatic loss.
- Healthcare workers, first responders, and caregiving professionals with vicarious trauma.
- LGBTQ+ clients carrying identity-based trauma.
- Entertainment industry professionals with industry-specific and personal trauma.
A Trauma-Informed Approach
Trauma treatment here draws from several evidence-based and body-informed modalities, integrated around what you actually need—not a one-size-fits-all protocol.
Some people work primarily in the body; others need to understand the parts that have been protecting them; many need both, at different points.
Modalities Leveraged in Trauma-Informed Therapy
EMDR Therapy
One of the most researched trauma treatments available. EMDR works at the neurological level — helping the brain reprocess memories stored in a way that keeps them feeling present and threatening, even when the danger has passed.
Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy
For clients with treatment-resistant PTSD, KAP creates a neurological window for processing that would otherwise remain inaccessible.
Attachment-Focused Therapy
For those whose trauma is rooted in early relationships, attachment-focused therapy addresses the blueprint written before you were old enough to question it.
Somatic Integration
Trauma lives in the body as much as the mind. Somatic Integration brings awareness to physical sensations and nervous system responses, using body-based approaches including sound healing and bio-field tuning.
IFS Therapy
We consist of various parts, each with its own value. Every part needs to be acknowledged and understood to work harmoniously. IFS Therapy does exactly that, it helps us feel more integrated.
Questions
Find answers to common questions about Trauma-Informed Therapy and how it works.
No. Many of the approaches I use — EMDR in particular — work through the nervous system rather than the retelling. You won’t be asked to narrate in detail what happened.
Some clients do notice an increase in emotional awareness early in the process. This is normal and temporary. We always build stabilization and resources before approaching the harder material.
Trauma-focused therapy works with the body and nervous system, not just the mind. It addresses how trauma is stored, not just what happened.
Yes. Both are central areas of my practice. Complex PTSD requires a different pacing and structure than single-incident PTSD, and I adjust accordingly.
Yes, via HIPAA-compliant video for clients throughout CA, NJ, MD, WY, and ID.
It depends on what you’re bringing in. Single-incident PTSD often moves faster than complex or developmental trauma. We move at the pace your nervous system can actually hold.
You don’t need explicit memories to do trauma work. The nervous system holds the imprint even when the mind doesn’t have clear narrative access to it.
If your system responded as though something was threatening — regardless of how severe it looks from the outside — it’s worth taking seriously. Trauma isn’t defined by the event; it’s defined by the impact.
Take the next step
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