Trauma & PTSD Therapy

A more compassionate way to understand what keeps you stuck

You may understand a great deal about your past and still find yourself bracing, overthinking, or struggling to slow down. Perhaps you stay busy to avoid uncomfortable feelings, notice tension before difficult conversations, or find it hard to express what you need. At other times, you may feel distant from your emotions or disconnected from yourself.

These experiences can have different causes. For some people, they reflect patterns that developed during overwhelming events or relationships where safety and support were difficult to find. Together, we can become curious about those patterns and what they may be asking for now.

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What You Experienced, What You Needed, and How You Learned to Get Through

Trauma can follow a single overwhelming event, such as an accident, violence, or a frightening medical experience. It can also develop through repeated experiences of fear, neglect, or unpredictability.

How an experience affects you is shaped by many things: how overwhelming it was, your age and earlier experiences, whether you could protect yourself, and the support available during and afterward. Ongoing stress or uncertainty can also influence how you recover. Together, we can make room for both what happened and the circumstances surrounding it, including what you needed at the time.

Your body and the ways you relate to others may have adapted to help you get through those experiences. You might have learned to stay tense and alert, closely watch other people’s moods, put your needs aside, pull away, or keep busy. These responses may have helped you feel safer or maintain connection at the time. Together, we can understand them with curiosity and explore what feels supportive in your life now.

A body-based, relational approach to trauma therapy

In our work, there is room for talking, noticing, and simply taking time. We may explore how a familiar pattern shows up in your thoughts, emotions, bodily sensations, and relationships. We also notice what helps you feel supported, whether that is the room around you, a meaningful connection, or a small sense of steadiness.

You do not have to tell your whole story at once. We can begin with what is happening in your life now. Your preferences, boundaries, and sense of readiness help guide the pace.