Trauma Therapy

I have completed the clinical trauma therapist certification program.

I have experience working within the refugee community, which is where my passion for helping people find freedom from the past began. I incorporate the body into trauma therapy, focusing on regulating the nervous system and connecting with the present moment through the senses. I also help clients explore beliefs that have become a part of their identity and challenge these beliefs with true, empowering beliefs to re-write their own narrative. I use EMDR and tapping techniques.

Trauma therapy is a form of therapy that can help you deal with the emotional response caused by a traumatic event. Trauma can include any event or experience that causes emotional or psychological harm.

I use a variety of techniques to treat trauma. Trauma's impact is unique to each person and I collaborate with you to identify a treatment that will best fit you, whether it is EMDR, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, psychodynamic therapy, or other strategies.

I will look at ways to understand how negative life experiences have shaped your thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. In trauma therapy, I look at loss of safety, inability to manage emotions, overwhelming losses, and experiences that have made you feel disconnected. Therapy will provide a validating, non-judgmental, authentic, and supportive place for you to navigate challenges you are experiencing.

I practice Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy. EMDR is a is a type of trauma therapy that allows your brain to go over the details of past events that still affect you. You don’t need to have PTSD to get help from EMDR! EMDR is “three pronged”—it’s focused on the past, present, and future. We want to target the past memories and events, current triggers you’re experiencing now, and how you’d like to respond to these triggers in the future.

I am a Certified Clinical Trauma Professional after having received training from a trauma specialist. I also received a year of supervision and consultation with a trauma professional as I developed a therapeutic tool kit of interventions specifically geared towards trauma survivors.

Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART) is an integrated, somatic trauma-focused psychotherapy that uses eye movements and voluntary image replacement for rapid relief and recovery from distressing images and difficult sensations. Many folks really like ART because it does not require discussing trauma details and the process itself is calming. It's generally very effective in treating trauma (one-time incidents or complex trauma), anxiety, depression, phobias, grief issues and more.

Safety is the absolute prerequisite to any trauma work. Building safety and rapport takes time, but is part of the process. Many times, trauma therapy is relational, as traumatic experiences have occurred in relationships. In order to heal, we need to experience something different within a safe container (of therapy). Your nervous system needs to sense something different. Figuring out your unique needs is essential to healing, and we will do that.

Over 12 years of training and experience working with those who are healing from all types of trauma. Specialized training in trauma-focused modalities and interventions.

Trauma work is for anyone and everyone, even those who don't identify as having a traumatic event or situation having occurred. Trauma therapy looks at how events and people in our lives may have impacted us, even if that occurred without ill intent. Unresolved traumas can invisibly shape how we respond to stressful situations - leaving us stuck in self-defeating patterns. Connecting briefly with our history helps us stop being driven by beliefs and forces from our past.

Trauma therapy can help you cope with trauma, whether it’s caused by a one-time event, or an ongoing or long-lasting situation. Most everyone has experienced some kind of trauma in their lifetime. If trauma, painful memories or flashbacks are holding you back from becoming your authentic self, please call me today.

I am a certified trauma professional with specialized training in trauma assessment and treatment. My training includes 21 hours of training on attachment trauma, PTSD, & racial trauma, 29 hours of training on integrative trauma & dissociation treatment, and 25 hours of training on trauma and telehealth.

In use of trauma therapy, I utilize Emotion Focused Technique. Trauma often gets trapped within the body. Each time that it gets triggered we revert back to a time where we experienced this similar feeling and our body reacts to it. In using EFT we learned to work through the bodies reaction to trauma and reduce our response through tapping different points of the body in order to create a space where the body is no longer trapped in a trauma space and we are able to respond more effectively.

I have clinical experience treating clients with a history of psychological trauma, such as abuse, assault, and adverse childhood experiences. The two therapies that I use, ACT and DBT, are evidence-based treatments for Trauma and Stressor Related Disorders. I'm strongly interested in trauma theories, neuroscience, psychoneurobiology, and interpersonal neurobiology. I've completed three graduate level courses in trauma. I regularly attend trauma-related conferences and trainings.

I am trained in multiple trauma-focused treatments including EMDR, Cognitive Processing Therapy, and Prolonged Exposure. All three of these therapies have been proven to help people feel better and live the lives they want to live.

Trauma is another word for overwhelm. When our bodies are overwhelmed our survival parts (fight, flight, freeze, submit, attach) become activated and start running the show. For many people they've been running the show nearly their whole life due to chronic persistent trauma or completed ptsd. For others, a recent event or stressors has kicked these parts into high gear. By becoming aware of these parts, building a compassionate but boundaried relationship to the parts we can address the trauma

My specialty is complex trauma.

I have been passionate about treating trauma since I entered the clinical field. All too often, trauma is left untreated, leaving people feeling hopeless and powerless to intrusive thoughts, flashbacks, isolation, and other unhelpful symptoms. I am specially trained in Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) that is an evidence-based approach to treating PTSD and traumatic stress. I have over a year of experience working with this modality and helping my clients regain control over their lives.