Trauma & PTSD
Trauma and PTSD therapy is for experiences that still affect how you feel, sleep and react, long after they've ended. You decide how fast things move and how much you share, and you never have to tell the whole story to be taken seriously.
How Trauma Can Feel
Many people don't link what they're feeling to trauma at first, because the effects can look like ordinary stress or relationship problems that keep repeating.
Before any trauma processing, we help you build a stable foundation. That includes grounding skills, ways to reorient to the present and tools you can use between sessions. We won't push into painful material before you feel steady enough to work with it.
Slowing down or pausing is a normal part of trauma therapy, and you can ask for either at any point. Nothing moves forward without your agreement.
EMDR is one option for memories that still feel vivid or overwhelming. Somatic therapy works with the physical side of trauma, and Internal Family Systems (IFS) can help when different parts of you disagree about whether it's safe to look at what happened. DBT skills are useful when the intensity of your emotions is the hardest thing to manage.
We work with single-incident, complex and developmental trauma, including trauma related to medical events, loss or relationships.
