Do you find yourself feeling anxious much of the time, constantly on edge, unable to fully relax, or lying awake at night because your mind won't slow down?
You don't have to keep living in survival mode.
Maybe your emotions feel bigger than the situation in front of you. You react in ways that surprise you, become overwhelmed more easily than you’d like, or notice yourself withdrawing from the people you care about. Perhaps you’re exhausted from trying to hold everything together while quietly wondering, “Why do I keep feeling this way?”
If this resonates with you, you’re not alone.
Trauma has a profound impact on our minds, bodies, relationships, and sense of self. Whether it stems from a single overwhelming event or years of chronic stress, emotional neglect, difficult relationships, loss, or other painful experiences, trauma can leave your nervous system feeling as though it’s still responding to danger long after the experience has ended.
Many of the symptoms that bring people to therapy—including anxiety, perfectionism, people-pleasing, emotional overwhelm, panic, self-doubt, or difficulty trusting others—are not signs that something is wrong with you. They are often adaptive survival strategies that once helped you cope.
The problem isn’t that these strategies developed. It’s that they may no longer be serving the life you want to live.
Many of us learn to minimize, deny, or push away our pain simply to get through the day. These responses make sense. They protected you when you needed them.
But healing begins when those protective strategies are met with compassion instead of criticism.
Rather than asking, “What’s wrong with me?”, we begin asking, “What happened to me?” and “How has my nervous system learned to protect me?”
Together, we’ll gently explore your experiences at a pace that feels safe, helping your nervous system discover that it no longer has to stay in survival mode. Whether you’re healing from childhood trauma, relational trauma, medical trauma, grief, or other overwhelming life experiences, you don’t have to navigate it alone.
I offer trauma therapy in Boulder and telehealth across Colorado, using EMDR, Internal Family Systems (IFS), and somatic psychotherapy to support deep and lasting healing.
Trauma therapy sessions include a blend of several trauma-informed and evidenced-based therapeutic modalities, including:
