Trauma & CPTSD

You've built a good life. You function — often really well. You show up, you achieve, you hold it together. But underneath, something doesn't feel right.

What Complex Trauma Actually Looks Like in Daily Life

A persistent sense that something is wrong with you — even when you can't point to why

Working hard to appear fine while feeling anything but

People-pleasing, over-explaining, or shrinking yourself in relationships

Sabotaging good things because safety feels unfamiliar

Difficulty trusting your own perceptions or feelings

A harsh inner critic that no amount of self-awareness seems to quiet

How I Work With Trauma

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Most trauma therapy focuses on helping you understand your patterns — why you do what you do, where it came from. That understanding matters, but it's rarely enough on its own. You can have complete insight into a pattern and still feel powerless to change it.

My approach goes further. Using experiential methods grounded in how the brain actually updates emotional memory, we work with the beliefs and feelings underneath your patterns — not just the patterns themselves. This isn't about reliving painful experiences or talking through your history session after session. It's about creating new emotional experiences that your nervous system can actually use.

The goal isn't to manage your trauma better. It's for the old wounds to genuinely lose their grip.

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When the Past Won't Stay in the Past

Maybe you find yourself overreacting to things that shouldn't be a big deal, then feeling ashamed about it afterward. Maybe you cycle through periods of numbness and overwhelm with no clear reason. Maybe relationships feel like a minefield — you either hold people at a distance or find yourself anxiously monitoring every interaction. Maybe you're exhausted in a way that sleep doesn't fix.

You might not think of yourself as someone with trauma. Trauma, to a lot of people, means something dramatic — an accident, a disaster, an obvious violation. But many of the people I work with have trauma that looks quieter than that: a childhood where emotions weren't safe to express, parents who were critical or unpredictable or simply absent in the ways that mattered, relationships that taught you that love comes with conditions. These experiences don't have to be extreme to leave a mark.