Therapy for Trauma & CPTSD in New Mexico, Colorado, & Florida

Trauma can change the way you experience yourself, your body, & the world around you.

Trauma can happen in a moment, or it can unfold slowly over time. It can come from a single overwhelming experience, or from years of experiences that shaped how you learned to navigate relationships, emotions, and the world around you.

You may be carrying the impact of a car accident, assault, medical trauma, sudden loss, or another life-altering event. You may be untangling the effects of childhood trauma, neglect, abuse, or instability. You may be exploring the ways generational trauma has shaped your family, your identity, or the beliefs and patterns passed down through generations. Or you may recognize yourself in the experiences of complex PTSD (CPTSD), where prolonged or repeated trauma has affected your sense of self, relationships, emotional regulation, and ability to feel safe.

You may find yourself frequently in hypervigilance or shutdown, constantly scanning for what might go wrong or disconnecting when things become too much. You may struggle with anxiety, emotional overwhelm, shame, difficulty trusting others, or beliefs that you're not good enough, too much, or fundamentally flawed. You may understand where some of these patterns come from and still feel frustrated that understanding them hasn't been enough to change them.

I'm trained in EMDR, Internal Family Systems (IFS)/Parts Work, Brainspotting, and somatic approaches, which allows me to draw from different modalities depending on your experiences, needs, and goals.

Some people benefit from directly processing a specific traumatic memory. Others may need more space to understand longstanding patterns, work with protective parts, or reconnect with their bodies and emotions. The focus often changes as therapy progresses.

The patterns that once helped you cope

Trauma can leave you with patterns that once made sense but may no longer feel helpful. You might overthink everything, anticipate problems before they happen, avoid conflict, struggle to say no, disconnect from your body or emotions, or hold yourself to impossible standards.

These responses aren't evidence that you're broken or failing at life. They developed in the context of your experiences.

Part of trauma therapy can be understanding these patterns with curiosity—while also creating the possibility of responding differently in the present. We can explore the beliefs, emotions, body responses, and protective patterns that continue to show up, with more compassion and understanding.