Focus Areas
You may recognize parts of yourself in one or more of these stories.
These are places we might begin, not boxes you need to fit into.
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.
This work isn’t about “getting over” these parts of your story. It’s about making sense of how they’ve shaped you, discovering what safety can feel like now, and creating more room for self-trust, connection, 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
Rest feels unproductive, slowing down feels uncomfortable, and your mind says “keep going” even when your body says “please stop.”
Survival mode was never meant to be a long-term way of living.
Over time, chronic stress can take a toll on both your emotional and physical well-being. You may feel exhausted, disconnected from your body, or frustrated by symptoms that seem to demand more from you when you already feel like you have nothing left to give.
Therapy does not treat or cure chronic illness, autoimmune conditions, or physical disease. But it can offer space to explore how stress, trauma, relationships, and the ways you have learned to survive may be affecting how you experience and respond to what your body is carrying.
Together, we’ll explore what it means to honor your limits, make room for your needs, and respond differently to the signals your body has been sending.
Your body isn’t a problem to solve. It’s part of your story, worthy of being listened to and understood.
Self-Harm (NSSI)
For many women, self-harm, or non-suicidal self-injury, is one of the hardest parts of their story to say out loud.
Silenced by shame, secrecy, and fear of judgment, self-harm isn’t always about wanting to die. Often, it’s about trying to survive pain that feels impossible to hold, name, or explain.
Our work here gives us a place to talk about self-harm openly and without assumptions. Together, we’ll understand the role self-harm has played and explore other ways of getting through the moments that feel hardest to hold.
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 feel in danger of harming yourself or need immediate crisis support, call or text 988 or visit the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline to connect with a crisis counselor. If you are in immediate danger or experiencing a life-threatening emergency, call 911 or go to your nearest emergency department.
Grief & 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.”
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.
We’ll start with what feels most important and make sense of the rest together.
I’ll meet you wherever that starting place may be.
