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What Is EMDR?
Trauma therapy is a compassionate, integrative approach that supports healing from overwhelming or distressing life experiences.
Rooted in an understanding of how trauma impacts both the mind and body, trauma therapy creates a safe, attuned space to process emotions, build resilience, and restore a sense of agency and connection.
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Practicing consent-forward rapport building
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Identifying how context impacted your life
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Recognizing outdated patterns of coping
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Learning the language of your nervous system
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Making sense of the past and recovering agency
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Re-parenting and parts-work
Because trauma can become embedded in both the nervous system and the body’s implicit memory, trauma focused therapy helps access and integrate those non-verbal experiences—supporting more regulated responses, deeper self-awareness, and lasting emotional healing.
How DoeS EMDR Work?
Each trauma therapy session typically begins with a verbal or written check-in, creating space for you to share what feels most present. We’ll then move into a grounding practice—such as breathwork, visualization, or orienting—to support a sense of safety and connection to the present moment.
As you share your experiences, thoughts, and emotions, we may identify old coping skills like beliefs, patterns of behavior or physical sensations that come up in moments of activation, toward the goal of increasing your sense of agency when triggers arise. I may gently invite you into somatic practices that help regulate your nervous system to help you stay present. These might include a body scan, grounding movement, or guided imagery.
We will always move at a pace that feels accessible and manageable, with plenty of choice and collaboration. Over time, you'll build core skills for nervous system awareness and regulation, such as tracking sensations, identifying triggers and resources, and distinguishing between past and present experiences in your body.
We’ll close each session by reflecting on what came up, how it connects to your healing goals, and what you’d like to carry forward. Please note: the trauma therapy I provide does not involve physical touch between therapist and client.
Support for Trauma, Anxiety, Depression, and Burnout
Many of my clients seek out trauma therapy when they feel ready to bring intention and time to moving beyond the challenging experiences of their lives.
You might benefit from this work if you’re:
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Living with anxiety or chronic stress, and feeling stuck in overthinking or hypervigilance
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Moving through depression, grief, or numbness — and longing to feel alive again
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Carrying the impact of developmental, complex, or collective trauma
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In the middle of a major life transition — becoming a parent, changing careers, ending a relationship, coming out, or starting over
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Experiencing burnout, especially as a caregiver, healer, creative, or highly sensitive person.
Additional Trauma Support
Trauma therapy is a compassionate, integrative approach that supports healing from overwhelming or distressing life experiences.
Rooted in an understanding of how trauma impacts both the mind and body, trauma therapy creates a safe, attuned space to process emotions, build resilience, and restore a sense of agency and connection.
-
Practicing consent-forward rapport building
-
Identifying how context impacted your life
-
Recognizing outdated patterns of coping
-
Learning the language of your nervous system
-
Making sense of the past and recovering agency
-
Re-parenting and parts-work
Because trauma can become embedded in both the nervous system and the body’s implicit memory, trauma focused therapy helps access and integrate those non-verbal experiences—supporting more regulated responses, deeper self-awareness, and lasting emotional healing.
