Trauma Counseling
EMDR | Somatic Therapy | Expressive Arts
Trauma can quietly shape how you move through the world—it can fracture your sense of self, disrupt your ability to trust your body or other people, and leave you feeling stuck in patterns that don’t make sense but feel impossible to change.
You might find yourself living on edge, bracing for something bad to happen, or feeling disconnected and numb as a way to get through the day. You may find yourself stuck in patterns of avoidance or feel flooded by memories, sensations, or emotions that don’t feel tied to the present moment.
Over time, trauma can quietly shape your relationships. You might pull away from others, struggle to feel understood, or begin carrying your distress alone to avoid feeling like a burden. You may find yourself wondering, Why can’t I move on? Will my body ever feel safe again? Is this just how life is now?
Trauma Therapy can help you…
develop a greater sense of safety and trust in your body, especially when your nervous system feels stuck in fight, flight, freeze, or shutdown
build capacity to experience intense emotions, sensations, or memories without becoming overwhelmed or disconnected
develop strategies to reduce trauma responses such as hypervigilance, numbness, panic, or dissociation
understand how trauma has shaped your relationships, attachment patterns, and sense of self
strengthen your ability to notice, name, and respond to your needs with greater clarity and self-compassion
explore how identity, culture, power, and lived context influence your trauma experience and healing
reconnect with meaning, agency, and choice after experiences that left you feeling powerless
My approach to trauma therapy is grounded in nervous system health, EMDR, expressive arts therapy, and feminist, anti-oppressive frameworks.
We work gently with your nervous system to help you feel safer, more grounded, and better able to respond to life rather than constantly brace against it.
EMDR helps your brain and body process traumatic experiences so they feel less overwhelming and less present in your day-to-day life—without requiring you to retell or relive everything that happened.
Expressive and creative practices offer ways to explore and release what’s been held in the body using images, movement, writing, or symbolism—at your own pace.
Trauma doesn’t happen in a vacuum. Your experiences are shaped by power, identity, culture, and systems, and therapy honors your lived context while supporting agency, choice, and self-trust.
