My Approach
Trauma is best understood not as a single event, but as an unhealed wound.
Protections build up around it over time, the way scar tissue forms around an injury, and those protections are often what get labeled as symptoms: the shutting down, the overthinking, the holding it together until you can't.
This doesn't come out of nowhere. It's evidence that some part of you figured out how to survive something, and it's still doing that job, even now, when you might not need it to.
Underneath all of it, your body and your psyche already know how to heal. The same way skin knows how to close a cut, you have an innate capacity for repair. My work isn't to install that capacity in you. It's to help clear the way so it can do what it already knows how to do: walk you home to yourself.
How We Work Together
This isn't therapy where you talk about your childhood in the abstract for months before anything shifts, and it isn't therapy that pushes you to relive everything at once just to prove you're doing the work.
We move at your pace, whatever that actually looks like for you, not a generic therapy timeline. Some sessions are about building real internal safety before we go near the harder material. Others involve getting curious about a part of you that's gone quiet, instead of pushing past it. Over time, that builds toward something you can actually feel changing, not just understanding intellectually.
EMDR & Parts Work
My primary approach is EMDR, almost always woven together with parts work. Together, these approaches help you build relationships with the different parts of yourself that learned to protect, please, perform, or disappear in order to keep you safe.
EMDR helps your brain and body process experiences that got stuck: memories, beliefs, and reactions that still feel live even though the danger has passed. Parts work starts with getting to know the different parts of you that formed to protect you: the part that shuts down in conflict, the part that overexplains, the part that keeps going no matter what. But it doesn't stop at understanding. As those protective parts learn to trust that they can loosen their grip, the more vulnerable parts underneath them, the ones actually carrying the pain, finally get to be seen and cared for. Together, this work supports change that goes beyond insight, helping your nervous system and your sense of self actually catch up to the present.
The You Who’s Already Whole
Underneath all that protecting, there's simply you: steady, curious, and capable, even if you haven't felt in touch with it in a long time. That version of you was never damaged and never needed fixing. A lot of this work is less about building something new and more about clearing enough space for it to lead again.
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