Your past doesn’t have to keep shaping how you feel now.

Trauma isn’t always one big event. Sometimes it’s what happened over and over again, or what didn’t happen when you needed it most.

This is often how complex trauma (C-PTSD) develops. You might notice it showing up as anxiety, emotional overwhelm, disconnection, or patterns in your relationships that feel hard to break. Your nervous system adapted to help you survive through responses like fight, flight, freeze, or fawn, but those patterns can start to feel exhausting or hard to understand.

You might find yourself over-explaining or people-pleasing (fawn), shutting down or going numb (freeze), feeling constantly on edge (fight/flight), or reacting in ways that don’t fully make sense to you.

In our work together, we focus on building safety first. You won’t be pushed to share anything before you’re ready. We move at a pace that feels manageable and grounded, while gently exploring how your past is showing up in your present.

I provide trauma therapy using an integrative, attachment-focused approach, including Internal Family Systems (IFS/parts work), somatic therapy, DBT skills, and trauma-focused CBT. This might look like learning how to regulate intense emotions, understand different parts of yourself, and feel more in control of your responses.