Our bodies and minds are resourceful at adapting to our external environment. When that environment is toxic and dangerous, our internal system creates powerful strategies to help us survive. Much of trauma work is about convincing our bodies that it's safe to let go of the survival strategies that are no longer helping us. When we feel safe enough to emerge from survival mode, we can uncover a stunning inner vibrancy and creativity that we never knew we had.  

Trauma deeply impacts our physiology, our relationship to ourselves, and our ability to connect with others. My approach to psychotherapy focuses on healing these effects of trauma using a collaborative, somatic, and relationship-based perspective.

In session, I draw on attachment-based/psychodynamic therapies, internal family systems (IFS), EMDR, somatic-based therapies, mindfulness, and nervous system regulation techniques. Each person has unique and ever-evolving needs in their therapeutic process, so part of our work together will be finding which approaches most resonate with you.