Trauma & Nervous System
Nervous-system-informed therapy for trauma, PTSD, anxiety, perfectionism, and mind-body disconnection.
Trauma & PTSD
What you might be experiencing:
Trauma doesn't always look like flashbacks and nightmares — sometimes it looks like being easily startled, feeling numb or checked out, struggling to trust, or living in a low-grade state of hypervigilance you've stopped noticing because it's been there so long. You might feel like your body reacts before your mind catches up, or that certain places, people, or sensations bring up more than you can explain.
Our somatic approach:
Trauma is stored in the nervous system, not just in memory — which is why processing it purely through talking can sometimes leave the body's alarm system untouched. Drawing from Somatic Experiencing and Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, we work with the physical sensations, impulses, and protective responses your body developed to survive. Rather than retelling the trauma in detail, we help your nervous system complete the responses it didn't get to finish, so it can finally settle.
What to expect together:
Safety and pacing come first, always — we build your capacity to stay present with sensation before going anywhere near overwhelm. You are never pushed to relive or recount more than feels manageable. Over time, many clients notice they feel less reactive, more able to stay grounded in their bodies, and more trusting of their own internal signals.
Anxiety & Perfectionism
What you might be experiencing:
You may hold yourself to standards that feel impossible to actually meet, and still feel like it's never quite enough. Rest might come with guilt attached. You might over-prepare, over-check, and over-function to avoid the anxious feeling of falling short — and even when you succeed, the relief doesn't last long before the pressure builds again. Underneath the achievement often sits a quieter fear: that your worth is conditional on your performance.
Our somatic approach:
Perfectionism is frequently a nervous system strategy — a way the body learned to stay safe through control, vigilance, and constant doing. We work with the physical experience of that pressure: the racing heart before a deadline, the inability to sit still, the body that doesn't know how to power down even when the to-do list is done. Somatic work helps widen your capacity to tolerate "good enough," and to feel safety in stillness rather than only in achievement.
What to expect together:
This isn't about talking you out of your standards or convincing you to "just relax." We'll get curious about where the pressure comes from — often family, culture, or survival — and build a felt sense of safety that doesn't depend on constant output. Many clients find that as their nervous system settles, their relationship to rest, mistakes, and their own worth shifts too.
Mind-Body Connection
What you might be experiencing:
You might feel disconnected from your body — living mostly "in your head," or only noticing your body when something hurts or breaks down. Chronic tension, fatigue, digestive issues, or a general sense of being "wired but tired" can all be signs that your nervous system has been in survival mode for longer than it should. You may have tried talk therapy before and understood yourself intellectually, without much actually shifting.
Our somatic approach:
This is the foundation underneath all of my work — the belief that lasting healing has to include the body, not bypass it. We use gentle, body-based practices to help you notice sensation, build interoceptive awareness, and widen your nervous system's capacity to handle stress without tipping into shutdown or overwhelm. This isn't about performing relaxation — it's about your body genuinely learning it's safe.
What to expect together:
Expect a slower, more embodied pace than typical talk therapy — we'll check in with your body as much as your thoughts. Over time, many clients describe feeling more "at home" in themselves: less reactive, more able to rest, and more attuned to what their body is telling them before things reach a breaking point.