Alycia O'Connell (she/her)

EMDR works by helping the brain reprocess memories that got stuck during overwhelming experiences — not by talking about them endlessly, but by moving through them in a way that allows the nervous system to finally complete what it couldn't at the time. I use EMDR alongside the Flash Technique, which can reduce distress even before we go near the memory directly, making it a gentler entry point for people who feel apprehensive about trauma work.

IFS is based on the idea that we're all made up of different parts — inner critics, protectors, younger wounded selves — and that symptoms are often parts doing their best to keep us safe. Rather than fighting or managing these parts, we get curious about them. IFS is one of the most compassionate frameworks I've encountered in 25 years of practice, and it pairs beautifully with somatic and trauma work.

Living with chronic pain or illness reshapes everything — your sense of self, your relationships, your relationship with your own body. I bring both clinical expertise and personal resonance to this work. Together we explore the ways the body holds and communicates distress, and work toward greater ease, meaning, and self-compassion within whatever your body is navigating.

Trauma doesn't live only in memory — it lives in the nervous system, in the body's reflexes, in the parts of us that learned to survive. I work with complex and relational trauma using approaches that go beneath the story to where healing actually happens — Somatic Experiencing, EMDR, IFS, and AEDP. This is careful, collaborative work, paced to what your system can hold.

Anxiety often lives in the body before it ever becomes a thought — a tightened chest, a racing mind, a sense of dread you can't quite name. I work somatically and experientially, helping you understand what your nervous system is trying to protect you from and gently building its capacity to settle. This isn't about managing anxiety from the outside — it's about shifting it from the inside.

Living with chronic pain or illness reshapes everything — your sense of self, your relationships, your relationship with your own body. I bring both clinical expertise and personal resonance to this work. Together we explore the ways the body holds and communicates distress, and work toward greater ease, meaning, and self-compassion within whatever your body is navigating.

Somatic therapy starts with the recognition that the body holds what the mind can't always access. Talk alone often isn't enough — especially for trauma, chronic stress, or patterns that feel impossible to think your way out of. Drawing from Somatic Experiencing and other body-based approaches, we pay attention to sensation, movement, and the nervous system's rhythms as a direct pathway to healing.