Rather than using a one-size-fits-all method, I draw from several powerful modalities to support your healing. This integrative approach means your trauma-focused treatment is tailored specifically to your needs, combining evidence-based treatments with practical life skills that create lasting transformation.

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EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing)

EMDR helps you process trauma, anxiety, and emotional pain without having to relive every detail. It's a gentle yet effective way to reduce PTSD symptoms and restore balance. This eye movement desensitization technique allows your brain to reprocess stuck traumatic memories from past traumatic events, integrating them naturally without continuing to trigger your nervous system.

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For my clients dealing with complex post traumatic stress, EMDR works with both explicit memories and the implicit body sensations and beliefs formed before you had words for them. I pace this trauma-focused treatment carefully, ensuring you have solid internal resources before processing traumatic stress.

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Parts Work (IFS-Informed)

We explore the different "parts" of you—like the inner critic, the perfectionist, or the protector—and help them work together instead of against each other. This builds self-compassion and emotional clarity. Parts Work recognizes that trauma survivors develop these different internal parts to survive repeated trauma.

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In treating complex PTSD, I help you develop curiosity and compassion toward all parts of your internal system. We explore how these parts formed in response to childhood trauma, what they protect, and what they need to feel safe enough to soften their extreme roles—creating internal collaboration rather than conflict. This approach particularly resonates with those who give endlessly to others while struggling to extend the same care to themselves.

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Skills Building

You'll learn practical tools to manage stress, set boundaries, regulate emotions, and communicate more effectively. These aren't just coping strategies—they're life-enhancing skills that fundamentally change how you navigate your world. For adults with complex trauma histories, these skills become the foundation for sustainable mental health recovery.

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Emotion Processing

Together, we'll create a safe space to feel, understand, and release emotions that have been buried or overwhelming. You'll learn how to stay grounded even when things feel intense. This aspect of our work addresses the affect dysregulation common in complex post traumatic stress disorder, helping you develop a new relationship with your emotional experience.

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Symptom Reduction & Nervous System Support

Whether you're dealing with anxiety disorders, burnout, or trauma responses, we'll work to calm your nervous system and reduce distressing symptoms so you can feel more like yourself again. This isn't just about managing cptsd symptoms—it's about fundamentally rewiring your nervous system's response to traumatic stress.

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Narrative and Relational Therapy

Through Narrative Therapy, incorporating principles similar to narrative exposure therapy, I help you examine and rewrite the stories trauma wrote about your worth and identity. Our therapeutic relationship becomes a space where you can be imperfect without losing connection—perhaps for the first time after years of complex trauma experiences.

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This integrative approach isn't just about feeling "better." It's about building a life that feels aligned, fulfilling, and emotionally secure. My goal is to help you reconnect with your inner wisdom, reclaim your energy, and create relationships that nourish, not drain you.