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About My Clients
I specialize in working with individuals experiencing complex trauma (complex PTSD, CPTSD), dissociative disorders, and religious trauma, along with the wide range of challenges that often accompany these experiences. Complex trauma typically arises from prolonged, inescapable experiences, often beginning in childhood. Unlike single incidents, complex trauma is chronic and cumulative, occurring where safety, trust, and connection were consistently absent.
My Background and Approach
My approach is deeply relational, body oriented, guided by presence, responsiveness, and an unwavering commitment to creating safe, compassionate spaces where your story is honored and your goals guide our work together. Because trauma healing is rarely linear, I follow a phase-based approach that moves fluidly through safety and stabilization, trauma processing, and integration. Pacing is everything, we work collaboratively to ensure the process remains attuned to your capacity and needs. My approach weaves together multiple therapeutic modalities including psychodynamic and attachment theories, EMDR and Flash techniques, memory reconsolidation, clinical hypnosis and ego state therapy. I bring advanced training through the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation (ISSTD), EMDR certification, and Clinical Hypnosis training through the Oregon Society of Clinical Hypnosis.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
Every person carries inherent worth, no matter what they've endured. Your survival responses are adaptations, not evidence of being broken. Trauma occurs within families, religious organizations, and social structures that may have silenced or failed to protect you. Personal healing cannot be separated from the systems that create harm. Healing includes holding space for both what happened and the contexts that allowed it. Healing happens through safe relationships. Through connection that feels different from what hurt you, new experiences become possible.