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What Is Trauma-Informed Therapy?

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Trauma-informed therapy recognizes that difficult life experiences can affect your emotions, relationships, beliefs, physical health, and nervous system. Rather than asking, "What's wrong with you?" it asks, "What happened to you, and how has it shaped the way you experience the world?"

Healing begins with safety, connection, and choice. Therapy provides a supportive, nonjudgmental space to understand your experiences, strengthen coping skills, and create lasting change.

What experiences can be traumatic?

Trauma is deeply personal. There are no strict rules about what is or isn't traumatic. Two people can experience the same event and have very different responses based on their life experiences, relationships, nervous system, and available support.

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Trauma may result from:

• Abuse, neglect, or domestic violence

• Bullying, rejection, or humiliation

• Loss, grief, separation, or abandonment

• Medical trauma, chronic illness, or injury

• Accidents or natural disasters

• Witnessing violence or harm to others

• Ongoing family conflict or living in an unsafe environment

• Attachment wounds or inconsistent caregiving

• Community violence, discrimination, or historical/intergenerational trauma

 

Trauma often leaves people feeling:

• Unsafe or on edge

• Powerless or trapped

• Ashamed or disconnected

• Unsupported or alone

• Emotionally overwhelmed or numb

• Hypervigilant, anxious, or easily triggered

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Trauma-informed therapy helps you understand how past experiences continue to influence your present life while providing practical tools to support healing.

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Together we work to:

• Rebuild a sense of safety in your body, relationships, and environment

• Understand your nervous system and trauma responses

• Identify triggers and respond with greater awareness and flexibility

• Process difficult memories without becoming overwhelmed

• Strengthen emotional regulation and healthy coping skills

• Improve communication, boundaries, and relationships

• Reduce anxiety, shame, hypervigilance, dissociation, and other trauma symptoms

• Increase resilience, confidence, and the ability to make intentional choices instead of survival-based reactions

 

For Children & Families

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Children often communicate through play rather than words. Trauma-focused, child-centered play therapy allows children to safely express and process difficult experiences while developing emotional regulation, confidence, and healthy relationships.

Parents and caregivers are included whenever appropriate to help:

• Better understand their child's nervous system

• Respond with connection instead of punishment

• Strengthen attachment and emotional safety

• Support healthy growth, resilience, and independence

 

Trauma-Focused Approaches

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I tailor treatment to each individual using evidence-based therapies, including:

• EMDR to help the brain reprocess distressing memories and reduce their emotional impact.

• Somatic Experiencing® to gently resolve trauma stored in the body and support nervous system regulation.

• Child-Centered & Trauma-Focused Play Therapy to help children heal through developmentally appropriate play.

• Safe and Sound Protocol (when appropriate) to support regulation, social engagement, and a greater sense of safety.

 

Our Goal  Together

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Healing doesn't mean forgetting the past—it means no longer feeling controlled by it. Our goal is to help you develop a greater sense of safety, strengthen relationships, regulate emotions, reconnect with yourself, and create more freedom and choice in your daily life.