What happened to you?
How did it impact you?
What do you need?
How can we make you feel safe again?

These are the things we seek to understand in trauma-informed therapy, recognizing the complex impact that trauma has on our well-being and our ability to cope going forward in the world. There is nothing wrong with you - you are just doing your best to respond to unnatural, unhealthy or unexpected situations.

When we experience relational trauma, whether that be in a romantic context, or during our childhood, this significantly impacts how we feel about ourselves and how we navigate future relationships. Together we will explore your significant life experiences to understand more about how you came to be who you are today. I provide a warm, welcoming, non-judgemental space where you can feel safe to show up exactly as you are.

I offer more than traditional talk-therapy by incorporating somatic work. Somatic therapy helps us return to feelings of safety, peace and calm by releasing and regulating emotions through our physical bodies. By allowing our bodies to safely experience emotions, rather than suppress them, these emotions can move through us, vs. getting "stuck" in us. This can also be a useful tool for those who struggle to talk about their emotions, since the focus is on physically releasing them instead.