Trauma Therapy

Why am I having such intense reactions?

It was just a miscommunication, but it felt like so much more.

Friends, partners, and family don’t get your strong reactions to seemingly minor events.

Neither do you a lot of the time. You know it doesn’t make sense, but you can’t help feeling what you feel.

Checking out and going numb is easier.

Disconnecting from your body gives you relief from the intensity.

It’s a lot easier to get through the day when you don’t have to feel.

But you know the emotions are still in there, lurking under the surface, waiting to overwhelm you.

If you let those big feelings out, will they ever go away?

No one gets it.

When you’ve tried to talk about your trauma, people didn’t seem to get it – or didn’t even believe you.

Maybe it wasn’t that bad.

You’re sure that if you could just make sense of what happened, you could finally move on.

Trauma lives in your brain and your body.

Making sense of trauma is part of the process, but there’s more to healing.

Being on edge all the time, having trouble sleeping, that tension in your stomach – that’s your body still feeling traumatized, no matter what you tell yourself intellectually.

Trauma therapy is for all of you: mind, body, and emotions.

As we build trust, therapy will provide a space for you to explore sensations, feelings, and ideas at your own pace.

We’ll use gentle somatic tools to help your body learn what it’s like to be grounded and calm.

We’ll support the parts of you holding those big, scary feelings.

And you’ll create your own narrative about senseless acts of cruelty you’ve experienced.

You can build safety and connection.

As we do this, you will learn how to find safety within.

Releasing all that trauma creates space for life-giving activities: creativity, caring relationships, embodied movement, joyful community engagement, and action.

Send me a message for a free consultation and take the first step to healing your whole system.

Please note that I am also a disability justice therapist. Too often, sick and disabled people experience medical trauma. Medical trauma can be treated like other trauma.