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Trauma Therapy
Move through your past without getting stuck in it.
Trauma Work / EMDR & Somatic Work
Many people come to therapy after years of trying to talk themselves into healing. But trauma doesn’t live in your logical brain—it lives in your body. That’s why no matter how much insight you have or how many coping tools you’ve tried, you might still feel hijacked by anxiety, emotional flashbacks, or a sense that something inside just won’t settle.
That’s where EMDR and somatic work come in. These approaches help you get to the root of what’s going on, not just the symptoms.
What is EMDR?
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a structured, evidence-based therapy originally developed to treat PTSD. It’s now widely used to treat anxiety, grief, phobias, attachment wounds, relational trauma, and more. EMDR helps you reprocess disturbing memories by using bilateral stimulation (like eye movements, tapping, or tones) while focusing on key experiences, beliefs, emotions, and sensations.
This process allows your brain to reorganize how it stores and responds to those memories—essentially helping you update your emotional and cognitive files so you’re no longer emotionally reacting as if the trauma is still happening.
Clients often say things like:
“I can still remember what happened, but it feels further away.”
“I finally believe I’m safe now.”
“This is the first time I have been able to talk about this without the pain I was carrying”
“It’s like something clicked into place.”
“Trauma isn’t what happens to us, but what we hold inside in the absence of an empathetic witness.”
What is Somatic Work?
When we experience overwhelming stress or trauma, our nervous system gets activated—and often stuck. You might live in a constant state of hyper-vigilance or shutdown without realizing your body has been trying to protect you all along.
Somatic therapy helps you reconnect with your body as a place of safety and wisdom. Through body-based awareness and techniques, we’ll explore sensations, movement, breath, and grounding practices that gently support nervous system regulation. This is especially powerful when combined with EMDR—it helps you stay anchored while moving through deeper work.
Many clients don’t realize that trauma can shut down the Broca’s area in the brain—the region responsible for language. So if you’ve ever felt frustrated that you "can’t explain it" or that you’re "too much" for others, it’s not your fault. Your body might be holding what your mind can’t quite name. That’s not dysfunction—it’s survival.
I don’t take a “sit back and nod” approach. I’m collaborative and direct, and I’ll gently challenge you when I see patterns that aren’t serving you.
I draw from EMDR with a somatic integration while also weaving in relational, attachment, and trauma-informed approaches that reflect the complexity of who you are. If you’re ready to understand your past not just intellectually—but viscerally—and want a guide who’s active, grounded, and real with you, we’ll likely be a great fit.
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