I am an integrative therapist, which means I pull from several advanced, evidence-based modalities rather than sticking rigidly to one single framework.

My work is entirely guided by attunement to your unique needs, capacity, and nervous system. I have completed additional specialized training in:

• Trauma Processing: Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) and Attachment-Focused EMDR (AF-EMDR)

• Parts Work & Self-Acceptance: Internal Family Systems (IFS)

• Meaning-Making, Systemic Issues, & Identity: Narrative Therapy

• Complex & Relational Trauma: The Neuro-Affective Relational Model (NARM)

• Mind-Body Symptoms & Chronic Pain: Pain Reprocessing Therapy (PRT)

• Mindfulness & Emotional Regulation: Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)

Most often, I work with individuals experiencing the ongoing effects of chronic, complex, or repeated trauma—especially those who have been exposed to environments, contexts, or relationships that repeatedly compromised their sense of safety.

My primary clinical experience is concentrated in helping people navigate and recover from:

• Relational & Childhood Trauma: Childhood abuse, emotional or physical neglect, and early attachment wounds.

• Violations of Trust & Safety: Complex betrayals of trust, including organized scams, institutional harm, and spiritual or religious trauma.

• Identity & Gender-Based Harm: Harms based on gender or sexuality, including harassment, discrimination, sexual trauma, assault, and intimate partner violence (IPV).

In addition, I am accustomed to helping clients process the complex symptoms and life challenges that are adjacent to these experiences, such as:

• Somatic & Physical Effects: Chronic pain, tension, and unexplained somatic symptoms.

• Post-Traumatic Stress: Persistent hypervigilance, emotional distress, intrusive flashbacks or re-experiencing, low self-esteem, and avoidance.

• Deep Loss: The unique, often unacknowledged grief that comes from a loss of identity, community, or fundamental safety.

Ultimately, my approach focuses on reclaiming your self-trust, personal empowerment, agency, and inner safety.

A typical session is a fluid, low-pressure conversation where we explore whatever is currently coming up for you.

We may explore relationship patterns, emotions, thoughts, or somatic (body-based) sensations that arise during the conversation. My role is to offer a steady presence, provide gentle observations, and ask questions to support reconnection to your own voice and inner world, while also keeping in mind your personal goals and overall hopes for therapy.

While I actively offer guidance during our sessions, my approach is non-directive. This means the questions, insights, and reflections I offer are never meant to dictate your actions, but are instead intended to help you slow down and reconnect with your own inner voice and wisdom.

I aim to provide a careful balance: enough collaborative guidance so that you feel empowered to set your own agenda and identify your own focus for the session, alongside a deep sense of therapeutic containment and steady presence from me.

The overall duration of therapy is completely unique to you and depends on your personal goals, the complexity of what you wish to address, and your own sense of when your work feels "complete."

While I am fully open to short-term, focused work, the nature of chronic stress and complex trauma means that most of my clients choose to work with me on a longer-term basis.

My practice is guided by a deep commitment to humanizing, respectful care. The pillars that ground my work include:

• Compassion & Acceptance: Offering a non-judgemental, non-blaming, empathetic, and active presence, and welcoming you as you are.

• Attunement & Pacing: Tuning into what is said and unsaid so that therapy moves at a speed that respects your capacity and readiness.

• Autonomy & Collaboration: Recognizing that you are the expert on your own life, nurturing your agency, and building a working partnership dedicated to your recovery.

• Respect & Dignity: Treating your boundaries, stories, and lived experiences with the utmost care and confidentiality.

No, you do not. Sharing the details of your trauma is not necessary for deep healing, and it is never forced upon you. While you may choose to disclose pieces of your history to help us build context and understanding, the level of detail and depth of disclosure is always on your terms.

Before addressing trauma, my role is to help you build inner safety first. We can work directly with how trauma is currently showing up in your body, beliefs, emotions, and relationships today, without reliving the past in detail. The approach I use focuses largely in the here-and-now, supporting emotional regulation, containment, meaning-making, and deepened awareness of your inner world.

If and when you decide to explore the past, we will do so in a way that helps you feel supported in processing or moving through the emotional remnants of those experiences (we do not stay there).

I approach painful experiences such as grief and trauma with the fundamental understanding that our job is not to “fix” what happened, but to build your capacity to process those experiences and integrate them into your story with compassion and understanding. Together, we focus on how you can gradually lighten the heavy weight of what you’ve been carrying.

The exact combination of therapeutic tools and pacing we use is completely unique to you. Part of my role in our sessions is to share insights that help demystify the recovery process, ensuring you feel fully informed and clear about what to expect as therapy progresses.

Yes. To ensure you receive the safest and most effective support, it is important to recognize when my therapeutic style might not align with your current needs.

My gentle, non-directive, and trauma-informed approach may not be well-suited for someone who is seeking advice, quick fixes, or direct input regarding what they should do or how they should heal.

In my experience, "knowing" you are ready is rarely about being 100% certain. Instead, you may feel willing to try when you sense that you have enough inner capacity, external security, and therapeutic support.

Here are two things to keep in mind about this process:

First, you do not need to be ready to dive into trauma work as soon as you start therapy. Good trauma recovery happens in phases, and we will spend as much time as you need focusing on safety, stabilization, and building a solid foundation of trust first.

Second, addressing trauma is a dynamic and fully supported process. Your response to the work will guide our pacing. We are always free to slow down, pause, and adjust to make sure your best interests and your emotional safety remain prioritized throughout.

We include the body in our work because trauma and chronic stress can impact us below the level of our conscious awareness.

Many people find that while they can intellectually understand why they feel a certain way, their body still reacts with a heightened heart rate, protective muscle tension, a heavy feeling in the gut, or a sense of frozen numbness. Including deeper-held emotions and sensations in the therapeutic conversation helps healing feel complete and sustainable.

Yes. While Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is well known for treating single, isolated incidents, it is also a profoundly effective tool for addressing complex or repeated traumas such as attachment or relational traumas.

In my approach, I use standard EMDR alongside Attachment-Focused EMDR (AF-EMDR) to support clients in reducing the distress associated with old wounds. You are welcome to read more about how I use EMDR here.

I offer Pain Reprocessing Therapy (PRT) alongside the other approaches I use because I have met with many clients who experience chronic pain. Chronic pain or persistent somatic discomfort are common effects of repeated stress and trauma.

Recent developments in neuroscience show us that when our bodies undergo chronic stress, relational trauma, or prolonged periods of feeling unsafe, our brain's internal alarm system can become overly sensitive. It begins to misinterpret normal, safe sensory messages from the body as dangerous, creating a "false alarm" loop that results in real, physical pain. This is known as neuroplastic pain.

Physical pain and emotional pain speak a very similar language in the nervous system. By integrating PRT into our sessions, we address the root cause of your physical symptoms so you can learn new ways to respond to physical and emotional pain and begin to feel safer in your body.