Trauma
Something precious was stolen from you.
Maybe it was your sense of safety. Or your belief that there is any good in the world. Maybe it was your sense of you. Or maybe you don’t even have words for it.
Trauma robs us. It robs us from ourselves, blows our lives to pieces, and then banishes those pieces to places where they are very hard to find, let alone put back together.
Maybe your trauma happened a long time ago, maybe not so long ago. Maybe it was once and maybe it was repeated over a lifetime. Maybe you locked it all up in a chest in the bottom of your ocean and the last thing you want to do is take a peek in there because it feels like the kraken will swallow you up. Whatever it is, you just don’t feel like you are all you.
Trauma does that. It is not fair, or right, or ok in any way.
You need life to be different. Maybe you even have the hope that it could be. You just know that you’re tired of living like this. You might feel angry, sad, lost, and scared all the time. Maybe you don’t sleep, or maybe you are pretending that it’s all fine.
Your pieces are fine. Except the pieces of you are Not. Fine.
How I Can Support You
Symptom Reduction: Safely processing difficult past events to reduce daily flashbacks, panic, and hypervigilance.
Nervous System Regulation: Mapping your body's stress states and building practical tools to find calm.
Rebuilding Self-Trust: Learning to reconnect with your intuition, re-establish firm boundaries, and express your core needs.
Mapping the Impact: Understanding how past trauma shapes your current thoughts, relationships, and worldview.
Reclaiming Your Narrative: Transitioning from survival mode to active autonomy, processing emotions at your own pace.
Collaborative Processing: Providing a secure, non-retraumatizing space to collect and integrate your fragmented pieces.
The journey is never easy with trauma. You may feel that you will come through fire, and in a way, you might. But there is also the possibility of new growth, healing, and feeling whole. Like you.
There is fire and grit in you, too.
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My specialized training began in 2005 providing individual and group therapy for survivors of sexual assault at the Rape Awareness and Assistance Program in Denver. Since then, I have built clinical expertise supporting individuals navigating complex trauma, systemic oppression, racial trauma, harassment, and professional burnout.
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A trauma-informed approach prioritizes your absolute physical and emotional safety, choice, and empowerment. This means:
Paced Collaboration: We work as true equals. You hold complete choice over all therapeutic decisions, and we move at a pace that protects your comfort.
Nervous System Focus: We focus on calming your physiology and remaining intensely mindful of triggers to actively prevent retraumatization.
Whole-Person Centered: I do not view you as a checklist of symptoms to be fixed. I see you as a whole person, and together we will safely find your pieces.
