Therapy for PTSD
Serving Clients in Florida & Colorado
When the past feels present
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is the collection of enduring patterns in the brain, body, and emotional system that can develop after experiencing an overwhelmingly traumatic event.
Trauma has a way of interrupting the processing and integration of experiences that allow them to feel like something that happened in the past. The result can be a sense of separation or exclusion from parts of your own lived experience, leading to pieces of the past fluctuating somewhere between feeling non-existent and inescapably present.
Common Symptoms of PTSD
→The feeling that parts of the past are intruding into the present
→ Recurring images, emotional responses, or bodily sensations rooted in trauma
→ Nightmares that replay parts of the past or revolve around recurring themes
→ Avoiding triggers that remind you of the past
→ Feeling detached from yourself, other people, or the world around you
→ Holding persistently negative expectations and beliefs
→ Blaming yourself for things that were or are outside of your control
→ Staying on high alert for signs of danger or harm
→ Feeling jumpy or easily startled
→ Having trouble falling asleep or sleeping through the night
PTSD therapy offers a path to reintegrating pieces of the past that currently live uprooted in your system. By engaging safely with the thoughts, feelings, and sensations that belong in memories of the past yet keep intruding into today you can find lasting peace and finally access the freedom and flexibility to live fully in the present.
My Approach to Treating PTSD
If you are thinking about starting therapy for PTSD, you have already taken a powerful first step.
Even considering the idea of connecting with another person and revisiting painful memories that you’ve been working so hard to get rid of takes tremendous courage. I approach therapy for PTSD with respect for the conflicting feelings you may hold by creating space for you to explore the impact of the past at your own pace.
I combine evidence-based practices with a relational and individualized approach, inviting you to participate in a partnership in which we can safely and effectively heal trauma at the root so that you can regain a sense of clarity and choice in the present.
What to Expect in Sessions
As we begin working together, we’ll spend time understanding what you’re experiencing now and how the past may still be showing up in the present. We may explore the situations, sensations, emotions, or reminders that seem to pull you back into fear, vigilance, avoidance, or disconnection. We’ll get curious about the internal responses that have developed to help you cope, protect yourself, and stay safe.
Depending on your needs, our work may focus on processing traumatic memories, softening protective patterns that no longer serve you, reducing the intensity of triggers, rebuilding trust in yourself and your body, feeling safer in the present, or reconnecting with relationships and parts of life that trauma has made harder to access.
Together we’ll help your mind and body recognize that what happened then does not have to keep determining how you experience the present.
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