Focus Areas

Post-traumatic stress involves and is not limited to complex post-traumatic disorder and post-traumatic relationship stress. Big-T trauma are significant life events where life, limb, or dignity have been risked drastically and the individual did not have time to integrate the pain of experience.

Small-T trauma however is known as ‘death by a thousand paper cuts’ and involves the slow degradation of an individual’s safety, esteem, or sense of psychological autonomy over time.

I use research and practice from Bessel van der Kolk, Gabor Mate, Pete Walker, Clarissa Estes, Rachel Rickets, David Richo, and Brandi Morin.

Each brain and body system has its own unique set of rules, and those with a neurodivergent experience have even more complex ones. If you are working with a brain-based experience of ADHD, Autism, OCD, or HSP, you may have a unique experience that is often misunderstood in day-to-day life. Advocating for yourself may feel exhausting. Your genius and struggle may come hand and hand sometimes. And you may want to talk about how tiresome or inspiring this can be!

Racism. Sexism. Agism. Genderism.

The experiences of being othered by a supremacist system are endless. Talking about it means we explore the injustices that have caused an environment in which you were not allowed to thrive, exactly as you are. Listening to you means I can, with the utmost care, hope to alleviate the pain of suffering with any of these experiences in silence.

The shame, silencing, pain, and suffering that results from sexual assault can be long-lasting, complex, and deeply uncomfortable, especially when you have felt you couldn’t disclose your experience at the time. If you’re ready, I am here to listen to your story.

Known as a dis-ease of memories stuck in the past or future, depression and anxiety can both feel as though they dominate consciousness. Using Narrative techniques to externalize your experience, we can start to loosen their grip, ultimately recognizing that you are not the problem, and that you have the strength to discover coping and healing that fits right for you.

Whether in work or relationships, activism or parenting, families or personal life, stress is chaotic, and stress is hard on the nervous system. Mindfulness and hypnotherapy are well-documented interventions for the kinds of cyclical stress that damage our quality of life.

The four steps of NVC are stating observations, then feelings, then needs, then requests. This alone can revolutionize relationships and quality of life. Whether in romantic, familial, or professional relationships, NVC helps us de-escalate and get to the core of addressing our emotional and social needs.

Expectations from society, families, and peers can have drastic impacts on the self-talk of people of all ages and backgrounds. Internalized shame, self-loathing, body dysmorphic disorder, and disordered eating are some ways that people attempt to overcome the enormous pressure they feel to look or present a certain way. With time, awareness, and self-compassion, the path towards self-love is available.