Trauma Therapy
I offer trauma therapy in Seattle through online, in-person, and hybrid sessions that integrate body awareness and nervous system regulation. If you need support navigating challenging experiences from your past, trauma therapy can help you make meaning, restore your autonomy, and bring vibrancy back into your everyday life.
What Is Trauma Therapy?
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Recognizing outdated patterns of coping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.
What Happens In Session?
Each trauma therapy session typically begins with a verbal 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.
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As you share your experiences, thoughts, and emotions, I may gently invite you into body-based practices that help regulate your nervous system to help you stay present. These might include a body scan, grounding movement, or guided imagery. We may also 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.
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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.
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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.
Why Trauma Therapy?
Many people are drawn to the grounding, healing power of reconnecting with their bodies that somatic therapy offers. While traditional talk therapy focuses on thoughts and emotions, somatic therapy includes the body as an essential part of the healing process, when talking about your feelings doesn't feel like enough.
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Somatic therapy helps you notice and work with physical sensations, tension, movement, and stillness to process stress, trauma, and emotional patterns stored in the nervous system. My training allows us to explore a range of body-based practices—like breathwork, grounding movement, self-touch, and guided body awareness—based on what feels most supportive for you in the moment.
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Not into meditation? That’s okay. Prefer stillness over movement? We’ll honor that. You never have to do anything that feels uncomfortable. Your pace, preferences, and consent are always central—and no prior experience with somatic work is required, just a willingness to tune in and be curious.
Support for Anxiety, Depression, Trauma and Burnout
Many of my clients come to somatic therapy when they experience symptoms in their body that are hard to manage — or when talk therapy no longer feels like enough.
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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
Together, we use the arts not as a way to escape, but as a way to come home — to your body, your inner knowing, and the life that wants to move through you.
Is Trauma Therapy Right For You?
My practice centers women and queer folks navigating change, healing, and creative reawakening. I bring a trauma-informed, body-based, and anti-oppressive lens to this work — honoring your story, your survival, and your sovereignty.
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Whether you’re moving through anxiety, depression, trauma, or simply feeling called to reconnect with your creative self, you are welcome here.
