Kelly Choy

A lot of who I work with have experienced trauma. Whether that be incremental trauma experienced throughout your life, that has gone undetected or pushed aside, or exposure to trauma in the form of crisis, sustained stress, or a traumatic event. I tailor my approach to the clients history of trauma and their needs. EMDR is often very helpful with these clients.

A lot of who I work with have experienced trauma. Whether that be incremental trauma experienced throughout your life, that has gone undetected or pushed aside, or exposure to trauma in the form of crisis, sustained stress, or a traumatic event. I tailor my approach to the clients history of trauma and their needs. EMDR is often very helpful with these clients.

Becoming a parent can activate deeper questions about safety, attachment, identity, and the experiences that shaped you growing up. Parenting was not meant to be done alone, it was meant to be supported by community and family. As a parent myself, I feel this deeply. I work to provide a supportive space to process the emotional changes that accompany pregnancy, postpartum life, and parenting, and help you feel seen and more capable of being fully present with yourself and your child.

If you grew up in an environment where you had to stay alert, manage other people’s emotions, or take on more responsibility than a child should have to carry, your nervous system learned to stay in survival mode. The patterns that helped you get through difficult experiences may now show up as anxiety, overthinking, people-pleasing, or difficulty relaxing. I have found that inner-child and "Parts" work, EMDR, Sand Tray, and Somatic Experiencing are very effective in healing attachment wounds.

A lot of who I work with have experienced trauma. Whether that be incremental trauma experienced throughout your life, that has gone undetected or pushed aside, or exposure to trauma in the form of crisis, sustained stress, or a traumatic event. I tailor my approach to the clients history of trauma and their needs. EMDR is often very helpful with these clients.

A lot of who I work with have experienced trauma. Whether that be smaller incremental trauma experienced throughout your life that has gone undetected or pushed aside, or a single traumatic event. Sustained stress and traumatic events stay within your body and can show up in subtle or big ways. I tailor my approach to your individual history of trauma and your current needs. EMDR, IFS, and Sand-Tray therapy are some of the evidence based approaches that I use to address trauma.

I am IFS-informed and often incorporate aspects of Internal Family Systems Theory to help the people I work with process patterns that have developed earlier in life, that are now no longer serving them. I am not an IFS purist, so I work to tailor this approach with each clients needs and often combine it with Sand Tray Therapy, Narrative Therapy, and EMDR.

I specialize in working with trauma and practice form a Trauma-informed lens. Trauma is defined by the individual and through their perception of safety during and after an event. Trauma is stored differently than other memories, our brain and BODY remember. Often times, traditional Cognitive Based therapies don't fully address trauma because it is not accessing all of the parts of the brain and body. Somatic Techniques and Mindfulness works with your brain and body to release trauma.

I use EMDR to help you process experiences that keep you stuck, are difficult to let go of, and have taken away your feeling of safety, autonomy, and calm. This modality is very helpful with PTSD and Complex Trauma as it works to move stuck memories and automatic responses throughout the brain, so you are able to better understand and adjust your internal and external reactions to current life stressors. EMDR works very well paired with IFS, Sand Tray Therapy, and Somatic Therapy.