Recover from truama and face anxiety
Helping heal the wounds that time might not.
The Past Still Feels Present
You’ve been doing your best to show up in your life — pushing yourself to keep going, managing what needs to be done, holding things together even when it feels exhausting.
And yet inside, parts of you can’t seem to relax or let go. Your body reacts before your mind can catch up. Anxiety surges. Old memories, sensations, or emotions intrude without warning. You may know you’re safe now, yet something in you stays alert, tense, overwhelmed, or shut down — as if the danger hasn’t quite passed.
This isn’t because you’re weak or broken. It’s because your system learned how to survive.
At an earlier time in your life — when you were younger, less resourced, and facing something painful or overwhelming — parts of you learned what they needed to do to get through. Staying alert. Keeping your distance. Being productive or achieving. Collapsing or giving in. Criticizing yourself. Overthinking. Numbing out.
Those strategies made sense then. They helped you survive something that felt like too much.
But now, things have changed. You’re safer. You have more choice. And those parts are still trying to do their jobs — even though their efforts are no longer serving you.
A compassionate view of trauma and anxiety
Trauma and anxiety aren’t problems to eliminate. They are protective responses that haven’t yet received the message that the danger has passed.
The parts of you that stay on edge, push harder, shut down, or turn inward aren’t trying to sabotage your life. They’re doing exactly what they learned to do to keep you safe — and they don’t yet know they don’t have to work this hard anymore.
When therapy focuses only on insight, coping skills, or symptom reduction, these protective strategies often get ignored or overridden. That can leave you feeling frustrated, stuck, or even more disconnected from yourself.
Healing begins when we slow down enough to listen — with curiosity instead of judgment — and when your system experiences enough safety for something new to emerge.
A New Path.
How trauma therapy can help
Trauma therapy isn’t about forcing your nervous system to calm down or telling yourself to “move on.” It’s about working with your inner system rather than against it, so the parts of you that have been working overtime can begin to soften, trust, and rest.
My approach is trauma-informed, relational, and grounded in Internal Family Systems (IFS), EMDR, attachment-based work, and somatic-informed therapy. These approaches help us understand how trauma and anxiety live in the body and emotional system — and how healing happens when those experiences are met with care.
In our work together, we gently and intentionally focus on understanding trauma and anxiety without shame, getting to know parts that learned to protect you, increasing your internal sense of safety, and creating more choice, flexibility, and trust in your life.
A different relationship with the past
Healing from trauma or anxiety doesn’t mean erasing the past. It means the past no longer running the present.
Over time, many clients experience less nervous system overwhelm, a calmer relationship with their thoughts and feelings, more presence in their bodies, greater self-trust, and a renewed sense of meaning and clarity. You don’t become someone else. You become more fully yourself.
A Different Way Forward
If you’re tired of managing symptoms and ready to understand yourself with more compassion and depth, trauma and anxiety therapy may offer a different way forward. I invite you to reach out for a consultation — a chance to explore whether this approach feels like a good fit for you.