Focus Areas
Complex Trauma (C-PTSD)
Not all trauma comes from a single event.
Sometimes it develops over years spent in relationships or environments where safety meant learning to read the room, keep the peace, and brace for what might come next.
Even after those experiences end, your mind and body may still respond as though the danger is present. You may overthink, struggle to trust yourself, feel numb and disconnected, or have difficulty setting boundaries.
These responses aren’t random. They tell the story of how you learned to survive.
Recovery isn’t about “getting over” these parts of your story. It’s about understanding how they’ve shaped you, experiencing safety in new ways, and building a life rooted in self-trust, secure relationships, and choice.
Together, we’ll honor what you’ve lived through while creating room for a life no longer shaped by survival alone.
Family Dysfunction
Long before you knew what relationships were supposed to look like, you were learning from the ones around you.
When family relationships are inconsistent, critical, emotionally neglectful, or lack healthy boundaries, you learn to adapt. Maybe you became the peacekeeper, the caregiver, or the one who learned to need nothing at all.
Those roles may have followed you into adulthood, where you now find yourself overfunctioning in relationships, struggling to trust, or feeling responsible for everyone else’s needs while losing sight of your own.
The role you needed to play then doesn’t have to be the one you keep playing now.
Our work isn’t about blaming your family or rewriting the past. It’s about understanding what you learned in those relationships, so those lessons don’t have to keep shaping the ones you have now.
Chronic Stress, Burnout & Illness
Survival mode was never meant to be a long-term way of living.
From the outside, you’re holding everything together. On the inside, your nervous system is working hard to keep up.
While therapy cannot treat chronic pain, autoimmune disease, or other health conditions, it can help address the impact of chronic stress and unresolved trauma on your overall well-being.
Together, we’ll make sense of how your nervous system learned to protect you and work toward a relationship with your body rooted less in fear or frustration and more in understanding and care.
Your body isn’t a problem to solve. It’s part of your story, worthy of being listened to and understood.
Non-Suicidal Self-Injury (NSSI)
For many women, self-harm is one of the hardest parts of their story to say out loud.
Shame, secrecy, and fear of judgment can make it difficult to let anyone in.
Self-harm isn’t always about wanting to die. It can be about trying to survive emotional pain that feels too overwhelming to hold any other way.
Therapy gives us a place to talk about self-harm without judgment or assumptions. Together, we’ll consider what it’s helped you cope with, explore other ways of responding to overwhelming distress, and check in about your safety along the way.
Your safety will always matter.
You don’t have to hide this part of your story. It deserves to be met with honesty, compassion, and care.
If you are in danger of harming yourself or someone else, please seek immediate support through your nearest emergency department or the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline by calling or texting 988 or visiting the 988 Lifeline website.
Grief and Loss
Some losses are unmistakable. Others are harder to label.
You may be grieving someone you loved, the childhood you didn’t have, a relationship you hoped would change, or the life you thought you would have.
Grief can be especially complicated when what you lost also caused you pain, or when you’re grieving something you never truly had.
Together, we’ll make space to honor what has been lost without rushing you toward acceptance or asking you to “move on.”
Grief doesn’t ask you to forget. It asks you to find a way to live with what has been lost.
Faith Deconstruction & Reconstruction
There are seasons of life when the questions seem to outnumber the answers.
Some of the hardest questions aren’t the ones you ask about yourself. They’re the ones you find yourself asking about God.
Faith may have once been a source of comfort and belonging, or it may have become intertwined with fear, shame, control, or silence. You may be questioning what you were taught, grieving a faith community you lost, or wondering if there’s still room for both your story and your faith.
Therapy offers a place for curiosity, grief, doubt, anger, and hope without pressure to arrive at a particular conclusion.
My role isn’t to tell you what your faith should look like. It’s to help you sort through what you were taught, what you’ve experienced, and what you believe to be true now.