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.
Trauma takes many forms
Single-incident trauma can follow an experience that was sudden, frightening, or overwhelming. Even when the event is over, your mind and body may continue responding as though you're still in danger. You may avoid certain places or situations, feel on edge, experience intrusive memories, or find that something you once took for granted no longer feels the same.
Childhood trauma can be more complicated. When difficult experiences happen while you're still developing your understanding of yourself and relationships, they can shape the beliefs and expectations you carry into adulthood. You may have learned to anticipate other people's moods, suppress your needs, stay small, take care of everyone else, or rely only on yourself.
Generational trauma can be carried through families and communities, shaped by experiences such as violence, oppression, displacement, loss, poverty, or other collective and historical harms. It can influence the beliefs, coping patterns, relationships, and ways of understanding safety that are passed from one generation to the next. Exploring this can be an important part of understanding yourself within the larger context of your family and history.
Complex PTSD (CPTSD) can develop through prolonged or repeated trauma, particularly when it happens within relationships or circumstances where you had little ability to change what was happening. The effects can extend beyond individual memories into your sense of identity, relationships, self-worth, emotional regulation, and connection with yourself and others.
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 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 undestanding.
There isn't one way to work with trauma
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. Sometimes the focus changes as therapy progresses.
Healing in the here & now
Trauma therapy isn't only about looking backward. It's also about understanding what is happening in your life today and creating more agency in how you move through it.
We can work toward feeling more present in your body, having a clearer sense of what you need, relating to yourself with less shame or judgement, recognizing when you're moving into hypervigilance or shutdown, and having more choice in how you respond to the people and situations around you.
For deep feelers, empaths & highly sensitive folks
For deep feelers, empaths, and neurodivergent folks, we can also make room for the ways you experience the world differently—and how those experiences may intersect with trauma and healing. This can be an opportunity to get curious about what you need, and give yourself permission to voice what feels good, what doesn’t, and what is truly most supportive for you in our work together.
