Trauma Counseling
EMDR | Somatic Therapy | Expressive Arts
Trauma has a quiet way of shaping how you move through the world. It can leave you feeling disconnected from yourself, unsure whether you can trust your body, your reactions, or even other people. You might notice patterns in your life that don’t quite make sense—habits or responses you didn’t consciously choose, but that feel hard to shift.
You may find yourself constantly on alert, bracing for something to go wrong, or feeling numb and disconnected just to get through the day. Sometimes trauma shows up as avoidance—steering away from people, places, or feelings—or as being suddenly flooded by memories, sensations, or emotions that seem too big for the situation at hand or don’t seem to belong to the present moment at all.
Over time, trauma can affect your relationships too. You might pull back from others, feel misunderstood, or start carrying everything on your own so you don’t feel like a burden. It’s common to wonder, Why can’t I just move on? Will my body ever feel safe again? Is this just how life is now?
These questions aren’t signs of failure—they’re signs that your body is doing its best to protect you. And it’s not a life sentence - you can find more flexibility and agency in how you move through the world and I’d love to help.
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.
