It feels like you're going insane...
You feel restless.
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You want to understand why your body feels on-edge or checked out.
Your shoulders are tight from all of the stress.
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You're confused why this is all showing up now.
It was all so long ago... did it even happen?
Some days you aren't sure what's real anymore.
You're sick of having a breakdown in the supply closet during the day or in your car after work.
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You are pushing yourself too hard and you feel exhausted. You're struggling to enjoy a career you once felt passionate about.
The weight of shame feels suffocating.
There's a loud voice in your head calling you stupid and saying you'll never be good enough.
Sleep is a struggle and regularly disrupted by bad dreams.
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It feels like you're breaking. ​
You may even secretly wonder if you’re losing it and going crazy.
Can you relate to these trauma symptoms?
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Sleep Disturbances:
It’s tough to fall asleep or stay asleep, with restless nights haunted by unwanted thoughts and memories.
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Overwhelming Emotions:
Feelings of panic, shame, and guilt may linger beneath the surface, bubbling up unexpectedly and overwhelming you, often at the most inconvenient times.
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Constantly Questioning and Condemning:
You feel plagued by what-ifs and insecurities. Your inner critic is on full blast.
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Disconnected:
Feeling checked out, sometimes your vision gets blurry or it’s like there is cotton in your brain, thinking feels fuzzy.
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Numb and Avoid:
You prefer to ignore certain places, relatives, or activities. You’re craving relief and a distraction from the misery yet those old habits that used to provide temporary relief are now contributing to the cycle of pain.
Feel Confident, Worthy, and Calm:
In our therapy sessions, you are met with gentleness, compassion, patience, and understanding.
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Many of my clients have experienced some variation of sexual activity or inappropriate touching without their consent.
This includes women who are survivors of incest, adult men who have been sexually abused by Priests in the Catholic Church when they were children,
and nonbinary folks who have been date-raped.
My clients have described feeling more confident, worthy, and safe as the result of our work together.
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During therapy sessions, we use a mixture of parts-work and EMDR (eye movement and self-tapping methods) to access and reprocess traumatic memories, allowing you to release the emotional charge connected with past experiences and create new, more adaptive narratives (e.g., I am safe. I am enough. I matter). Through this process, you can experience profound shifts in your perception of yourself and the world around you.
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My clients regularly say how helpful it is that I have a strong bodily focus in session, noticing how the body feels and what the body wants to do. Moving the body and allowing it to dictate the direction of our work, I teach my clients how to understand and gently move through what their instinct urges are showing them.
My approach is rooted in ancient wisdom.
Although I was trained to be a therapist in the top outpatient psychiatric clinic in Michigan, I also tend to incorporate an eclectic variety of grounding practices ranging from western-secular mindfulness to earth-based contemplative practices from my apprenticeship with a Shaman with the Quito tribe of Ecuador to mantra-based meditation stemming from Eastern traditions and my background living on yogic ashrams in my early twenties.
(Re)Claim Your Mind
You deserve to live free from the confines of anxiety. Rediscovering joy and feeling empowered is within your grasp. ​
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My clients regularly describe how they feel at peace, calmer, more grounded, and less tense in their bodies at the end of our sessions.
As a result of our work together, clients tell me they're less self-critical.​
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They learn strategies to tame emotions and how to channel those big feels into something pleasant instead of wallowing in sadness or feeling flooded with fear. ​
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They feel like they've found where they belong.
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With dedication and courage to keep showing up for sessions, the heavy burden of anxiety begins to lift.
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Life stops feeling so foggy and their vision starts to physically get clearer. Dissociation happens less frequently.
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Family relationships are easier to navigate and boundaries get clearer. My clients learn strategies to ask for what they need and how to respect their own mental, emotional, and physical limits.
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My clients discover how to safely enjoy intercourse with their partner and feel more confident in asking for what they need during sex.
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They actually laugh on the weekends and enjoy living their daily life.
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Work can feel satisfying and fulfilling again.
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You can focus and accomplish the tasks on the job or on your To Do list without panicking or curling up on the couch, spiraling down a social media rabbit-hole. ​
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You can step into the present moment with calm, clarity and confidence.
Through our work together, you can (re)claim your power and become the person, partner, parent and professional who you want to be.
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Can you take a few minutes to refill your cup?
"I now give myself permission to pause."
"The soul always knows what to do to heal itself. The challenge is to silence the mind."
Caroline Myss
