Keri Gnanashanmugam LCSW

I specialize in helping clients heal attachment wounds and create secure, healthy relationships. Whether you struggle with anxious, avoidant, or disorganized attachment styles, I provide a trauma-informed approach to help you understand your patterns and foster meaningful, secure connections. Together, we work to build stronger emotional bonds, deepen self-awareness, and enhance your ability to trust and be vulnerable in relationships.

I help clients break free from the cycle of codependency, reclaim autonomy, and establish healthy, interdependent relationships. My approach involves identifying codependent patterns, healing from past trauma, and developing self-compassion and boundaries. Whether you feel overly responsible for others or have difficulty asserting your needs, we’ll work together to empower you to create relationships built on mutual respect and balance.

I specialize in guiding individuals and couples through relationship challenges, whether it’s communication breakdowns, intimacy struggles, or recurring conflicts. My work focuses on fostering emotional awareness, equitable partnerships, and healthy boundaries. By addressing underlying patterns and learning new ways to connect and communication, I help clients cultivate deeper, more fulfilling relationships that are grounded in trust, empathy, and respect.

Trauma often disconnects us from our bodies, leaving us feeling unsafe or out of touch with our physical selves. Healing requires restoring that vital connection. Through somatic-centered therapy, I help clients rebuild a relationship with their bodies, using tools like Polyvagal Theory to understand the nervous system's role in trauma. By cultivating felt-sense experiences of safety and tolerance, we release stored tension, regulate the nervous system, and create lasting healing.

I guide clients in working with their different parts to foster inner harmony and self-compassion. With a deep understanding of how past wounds shape our internal dynamics, I help clients unburden critical, protective, or wounded parts and connect with their true, authentic selves. While not the only reparenting or parts work approach I draw from, IFS offers a powerful path to healing by creating harmony and understanding within, leading to healthier relationships with oneself and others.

With specialized training in EMDR and years of experience, I guide clients through EMDR to resolve painful memories, reduce symptoms of trauma, and create lasting change. This approach is particularly effective for those struggling with complex trauma, PTSD, and negative relationship patterns. I am currently seeking certification in EMDR and have advance training and consultation beyond the basic training.