Heal the Wounds That Changed How You See Yourself and Reclaim Your Power

Trauma isn't what happened to you—it's how your nervous system adapted to survive.

If This Sounds Like You...

You have intense emotional reactions that feel bigger than the situation warrants, and afterwards you feel ashamed and confused about why you "overreacted."

You feel disconnected from yourself – like you're watching your life happen to someone else, or like parts of yourself went missing somewhere along the way.

You struggle with persistent self-doubt, second-guessing every decision and wondering if your perceptions of reality can be trusted.

Your relationships follow painful patterns – you find yourself attracted to people who hurt you, or you push away the people who actually treat you well.

You feel hypervigilant and exhausted – constantly scanning for danger, having trouble relaxing, startling easily, feeling like you can never fully let your guard down.

You have flashbacks, nightmares, or intrusive memories that make the past feel present, leaving you feeling like you're re-living traumatic experiences.

You feel like damaged goods – convinced that if people really knew what happened to you or how it affected you, they wouldn't want to be around you.

You blame yourself for what happened, even though logically you know it wasn't your fault. The shame feels heavier than the actual trauma sometimes.

Trauma Lives in Your Body, Not Just Your Mind

Trauma isn't just about what happened to you – it's about how those experiences got stored in your nervous system, your body, and your understanding of yourself and the world.

Your Responses Make Sense

Your trauma responses aren't character flaws. They're brilliant adaptations your mind and body created to help you survive impossible situations. The hypervigilance, the emotional intensity, the relationship patterns – they all made perfect sense when you developed them.

The Problem Isn't You

The problem isn't that you have these responses – the problem is when they continue running in the background of your life, trying to protect you from dangers that aren't actually present anymore.

Healing Is Possible

With the right support and evidence-based approaches, your nervous system can learn to feel safe again. You can reclaim the parts of yourself that went into hiding and develop relationships that heal rather than harm.

What Trauma Can Look Like

Trauma doesn't always look like a single terrible event. Sometimes it's:

Complex Trauma

Repeated experiences of harm, neglect, or betrayal, especially during childhood when your sense of self was still forming.

Identity-Based Trauma

Being harmed, rejected, or discriminated against specifically because of who you are – your race, sexuality, gender identity, neurodivergence, or other aspects of your identity.

Religious/Spiritual Trauma

Having your humanity, your body, your natural emotions, or your core identity pathologized or demonized by religious systems.

Medical Trauma

Having your pain dismissed, your autonomy violated, or your identity invalidated in healthcare settings.

Betrayal Trauma

Being harmed by someone who was supposed to care for and protect you – parents, partners, religious leaders, therapists.

My Specialized Trauma Healing Approach

EMDR Therapy

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing helps your brain process traumatic memories safely so they become part of your past rather than feeling present and threatening.

Evidence-based treatment for PTSD
Effective for single-incident and complex trauma
Helps memories feel like past events, not current dangers
Particularly helpful for identity-based trauma and shame

Somatic (Body-Based) Approaches

Trauma lives in your body – in chronic muscle tension, disrupted breathing patterns, and nervous system dysregulation. We'll work with:

Nervous system regulation to help your body feel safe
Body awareness practices to reconnect with sensations
Movement and breathwork to release trapped energy
Grounding techniques for present-moment awareness

Parts Work (Internal Family Systems)

Trauma often creates internal conflicts – parts of you that are angry, scared, protecting, or in pain. Parts work helps you:

Understand your internal landscape without judgment
Heal wounded parts of yourself with compassion
Integrate protective strategies so they help rather than hinder
Access your core Self – the wise, calm part that's never been damaged

Nervous System Regulation

Building capacity for calm and connection through:

Window of tolerance expansion
Co-regulation practice with therapeutic relationship
Polyvagal theory applications for autonomic nervous system healing
Building resilience and capacity for emotional regulation

You Are Not Broken

What Healing Can Look Like

Healing doesn't mean forgetting what happened or pretending it didn't affect you. It means the past stays in the past instead of feeling present and threatening. You can learn to feel safe in your own skin and develop relationships that heal rather than harm.

The past stays in the past instead of feeling present and threatening

You trust your own perceptions and feelings about your experiences

You can set boundaries without guilt or fear of abandonment

Your relationships feel nourishing rather than re-traumatizing

You feel at home in your own body and can access emotions without being overwhelmed

You can be present for both joy and pain without dissociating

Trauma survivors are some of the strongest, most resourceful people I know. The fact that you survived, that you're still here, that you're still capable of love and connection despite what you've been through – that's not a sign of damage. That's a testament to your resilience.

Your Healing Journey Starts Here

You don't have to carry this alone anymore

Trauma healing isn't linear, and it can't be rushed. But with the right support, evidence-based approaches, and a therapeutic relationship built on trust and understanding, profound healing is possible. You deserve to feel safe in your own body and peaceful in your own life.

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