Katlyn Michaels (she/her)

Our earliest relationships shape how we see ourselves, trust others, and navigate connection. If you find yourself repeating painful relationship patterns, fearing abandonment, people-pleasing, or struggling to feel emotionally safe, attachment-focused therapy can help. Together, we'll explore where those patterns began and build relationships, including the one you have with yourself, that feel more secure.

I work with concerns including PMDD, PCOS, fertility challenges, pregnancy, perimenopause, medical trauma, relationship stress, and the expectations often placed on women from a feminist perspective. Therapy offers a space to understand these experiences, reconnect with yourself, and move through life with greater clarity and self-compassion.

Trauma can continue to affect your relationships, emotions, body, and sense of safety long after the event has ended. Whether your experiences stem from childhood, sexual violence, medical trauma, loss, or other overwhelming events, healing is possible. I provide trauma-informed therapy, including EMDR when appropriate, to help you process what happened and move forward without your past defining your present.

Trauma can affect the way you think, feel, relate to others, and experience the world long after the event has ended. My approach to trauma therapy is compassionate, collaborative, and tailored to your needs. Together, we'll process painful experiences, understand how they've shaped the present, and work toward healing that feels meaningful, lasting, and grounded in your strengths.

EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) is a structured, evidence-based therapy that helps the brain process distressing memories that continue to affect you in the present. Rather than simply talking about what happened, EMDR helps reduce the emotional intensity of those experiences so they feel like memories instead of ongoing threats.

Somatic therapy recognizes that trauma and stress are experienced in both the mind and body. Rather than focusing only on thoughts, we'll also pay attention to physical sensations, tension, breathing, movement, and your nervous system's responses. This can help you better understand your body's signals, increase your sense of safety, and develop new ways of responding to stress.

Trauma can affect the way you think, feel, relate to others, and experience the world long after the event has ended. My approach to trauma therapy is compassionate, collaborative, and tailored to your needs. Together, we'll process painful experiences, understand how they've shaped the present, and work toward healing that feels meaningful, lasting, and grounded in your strengths.

Trauma therapy is designed to help people heal from experiences that continue to affect their emotions, relationships, beliefs about themselves, or sense of safety. Together, we'll work to understand how those experiences are influencing your life today, process them at a pace that feels manageable, and build new ways of moving forward that feel more grounded and connected.