A trauma-informed approach to therapy recognizes the deep and lasting impact trauma can have on your mind, body, relationships, and nervous system. Whether you’ve experienced childhood trauma, sexual trauma, systematic trauma, family dysfunction, emotional/ physical abuse, identity-based oppression, or high-control environments, trauma-informed care focuses on creating emotional safety, trust, and empowerment throughout the healing process.

Trauma often lives beyond memory—it can show up as anxiety, people-pleasing, hypervigilance, emotional numbness, relationship struggles, chronic stress, or feeling disconnected from yourself. Rather than viewing these responses as personal flaws, trauma-informed therapy understands them as protective survival adaptations developed over time.

In a trauma-informed therapy space, your boundaries, autonomy, and pace are respected. Together, we explore how past experiences may have shaped your self-worth, attachment patterns, emotional responses, and sense of safety in the world. Healing happens through compassion, curiosity, and nervous system awareness—not shame or pressure.

This approach to trauma healing helps you reconnect with yourself in a way that feels grounded, authentic, and sustainable. The goal is not to “fix” you, but to help you feel more emotionally regulated, self-trusting, empowered, and connected to the life you want to live.

You may not always realize trauma is affecting you, but you feel it in your everyday life. It shows up as chronic anxiety, emotional exhaustion, people-pleasing, hypervigilance, low self-worth, relationship struggles, burnout, dissociation, or the constant feeling that you can never fully relax. Trauma can live in both the mind and body, even long after the original experiences have passed.

Maybe you overthink every decision, avoid conflict to keep the peace, struggle with boundaries, or feel emotionally numb and disconnected from yourself. Maybe shame, guilt, religious conditioning, childhood wounds, sexual trauma, or toxic relationship patterns still shape the way you move through the world. You may look “high functioning” on the outside while internally feeling overwhelmed, unsafe, or stuck in survival mode.

Trauma therapy can help you understand the root of these patterns and begin healing from the effects of childhood trauma, PTSD, complex trauma, religious trauma, sexual trauma, emotional abuse, attachment wounds, and nervous system dysregulation. Therapy offers a space to process painful experiences, rebuild self-trust, develop healthier coping patterns, and reconnect with who you are underneath survival.

You don’t have to keep living on autopilot, carrying fear, shame, guilt, or self-doubt alone. Healing is possible, and you deserve support that helps you feel safe, empowered, emotionally regulated, and connected to yourself again.

If you’re wondering whether trauma therapy is right for you, that curiosity may already be a sign that part of you is ready for change, healing, and a different way of living.

No. Trauma therapy is not only for people who have survived extreme or life-threatening events. Trauma can develop from childhood emotional neglect, toxic family dynamics, religious trauma, sexual trauma, abusive relationships, chronic stress, identity-based oppression, or years of feeling unsafe, unseen, or emotionally unsupported.

Trauma is less about the size of the event and more about how your nervous system responded in order to survive. When experiences overwhelm your ability to cope, your mind and body adapt through survival responses like anxiety, hypervigilance, people-pleasing, emotional shutdown, perfectionism, dissociation, or difficulty trusting yourself and others.

Many people minimize their pain because they believe they “didn’t have it bad enough.” But complex trauma often comes from repeated emotional wounds, ongoing criticism, instability, shame, or environments where you had to ignore your own needs to stay safe.

Your experiences do not have to fit a certain definition to deserve care and support. If your past still affects your relationships, emotions, self-worth, body, or sense of safety, trauma-informed therapy can help you heal, process those experiences, and reconnect with yourself in a healthier, more grounded way.

My fee is $150 for a 50-minute individual therapy session. I also offer sliding scale therapy spots for clients who may need additional financial flexibility. Sliding scale availability is limited and cannot always be guaranteed, but you’re welcome to ask about current openings during your consultation call.

I believe trauma therapy, LGBTQIA+ affirming therapy, and culturally responsive mental health care should feel accessible and supportive, especially for clients navigating systemic stress, identity-based trauma, sexual trauma, or complex PTSD.

I am currently an out-of-network therapist and do not directly bill insurance companies. However, I can provide a monthly superbill that you may submit to your insurance provider for possible reimbursement through your out-of-network mental health benefits. Many clients are able to receive partial reimbursement depending on their plan.

Working with an out-of-network trauma therapist can offer several benefits, including:

• More personalized, trauma-informed care tailored to your specific needs and goals

• Greater privacy and confidentiality without needing to share diagnoses or therapy notes with insurance companies

• Freedom from insurance-imposed limits on the number or length of therapy sessions

• More flexibility in treatment approaches, pacing, and ongoing support

• The ability to focus fully on your healing process—not just what insurance providers deem “medically necessary”

My goal is to provide a therapy space that feels collaborative, affirming, and centered around your long-term healing and emotional well-bein