Trauma Therapy: A Path to Healing and Personal Growth
Embracing the Journey to Wholeness
I like to help people get free from their difficult past
Beyond Talk Therapy: Transforming Your Life Through Deeper Healing.
Welcome. If you are a high-functioning individual who, despite doing talk therapy, still feels stuck in old, distressing, or uncomfortable patterns, you're not alone.
To help clients get unstuck, I use specialized, leading-edge approaches like EMDR and somatic talk therapy. Many clients have sought my expertise due for this.
These clients craved relief from anxiety, low self-worth, challenging relationships, and difficult or traumatic childhoods.
It’s Not You. It’s Your Biology.
If you’re a trauma survivor, talking through the specifics in talk therapy can re-activate trauma symptoms, no matter how long ago the event(s) occurred.
Relief from the residue of trauma often calls for specialized treatment to help create an internal felt-sense that you’re safe. It’s over, and you survived.
Trauma activation might feel more emotional or physical and not necessarily include narrative memory, as our meaning-making brain often gets hijacked during trauma.
There’s Good Reason Change is Slippery
You might blame yourself for not "fixing" your issues, such as addictions (workaholism, excessive screen time, etc.). But there's more to the story—your limbic (vs. logical) brain.
Compulsions like people-pleasing or perfectionism can overwhelm your best intentions when early "adaptive" traits buried in the limbic brain surface. This is the reason why insights and goals gained through talk therapy can get thwarted. For instance:
You go into a shame spiral after your boss suggests a minor work product correction.
Even though you’re quite competent, the inner critic who harps that "you're not good enough" also saddles you with “imposter syndrome.”
Your limbic brain's role is to "protect" you by keeping the status quo. Hence….
Specialized Treatment Approaches
I use specialized therapies known to change ingrained patterns to potentially create lasting, below-the-iceberg kind of transformation.
These include EMDR, somatic talk therapy (Sensorimotor Psychotherapy), Internal Family Systems (IFS), trauma-informed stabilization treatment (TIST) and The Flash Technique.
These mindfulness-based methods seek to heal ingrained beliefs and behaviors, as well as trauma triggers. They address:
Anxiety, panic attacks, and depression
Sudden emotional overwhelm or hijacking into anger, fear, or shame
Self-sabotaging or limiting thoughts and behaviors (perfectionism, addictions, or low self-worth)
Chronic emotional or physical hypervigilance or catastrophizing
Healing and Growth in a Supportive Environment
Together, we would collaborate to bring forth your innate wisdom and drive to heal. This process would support, for example, a strengthening of your authentic, empowered, and embodied self. I provide a warm and compassionate environment that appreciates the intelligence of issues presented for transformation.
We would gently update limiting beliefs, challenging behaviors, and/or trauma symptoms like anxiety, depression, or flashbacks that can keep you from feeling your best.
Common Benefits
With this work, more energy is available since it’s no longer needed to suppress trauma symptoms or manage restrictive thoughts and behaviors. Typical results include:
More satisfying relationships and work-life balance
Deeper fulfillment and purpose in life
Increased self-acceptance, self-compassion, and emotional resilience
More spontaneity, ease and creativity
Take the First Step Towards Healing and Growth
There is a good reason for you to feel optimistic about living a freer, more meaningful and enjoyable life.
I invite you to set up a free 20-minute consultation if you'd like to learn more about how this work might benefit you by accessing your healing potential.