Trauma and PTSD
At the pace your body can hold.
Trauma-focused therapy for the events and the long aftermaths, with safety, steadiness, and no pressure to relive more than you're ready to.
The work
Trauma is not the event. It's what the event left behind.
Trauma lives in the present tense: in the startle, the sleeplessness, the numbness, the sense that some part of you never fully left the moment it happened. My approach is trauma-focused and carefully paced: we build safety and steadiness first, and we never move faster than your nervous system can metabolize.
I work with single-incident trauma, complex and developmental trauma, and the trauma that accumulates from discrimination, violence, and the ordinary cruelties of living in a body the world hasn't kept safe. I also treat personality disorders, where DBT-informed skills and a steady therapeutic relationship can genuinely change a life. The goal is not to erase what happened, but to change your relationship to it, so that it stops running the present.
When this is the work
When the work is recovery.
Safety comes first.
Before anything else, we build the steadiness and skills that make the deeper work survivable. There is no rushing this, and no reliving before you're ready.
The body remembers.
Trauma is stored in the nervous system, not just the story. We work with the physical residue, like the vigilance, the shutdown, and the sleep, as directly as the memories.
Complex & identity-based trauma.
For many people, harm accrued over years in families, relationships, or a world unsafe for who they are. This slower work restores trust in yourself and your own perception.
What to expect
What to expect.
Deliberate, safety-first, and paced entirely to what you can hold.
- 01
A free 15-minute consult.
A brief, gentle call. You decide how much or how little to share.
- 02
An initial session.
Unhurried. We talk about what's happening now, and build a sense of what safety would need to look like.
- 03
Ongoing sessions.
We establish steadiness before depth. Length and pace are set by you, throughout.
“You can put it down. We'll go slowly enough that you can.”