Trauma & Anxiety Related Specialties

 Trauma can result from overwhelming experiences that continue to affect your emotions, relationships, and daily life. Trauma therapy helps you understand these patterns, process past experiences using evidence-based approaches like EMDR, and build healthier ways of coping. 

 Anxiety is a natural response to stress, but when it begins interfering with your daily life, therapy can help. Treatment focuses on understanding the root causes of anxiety, calming the nervous system, and developing effective coping strategies. 

 Dissociation is a protective response to overwhelming stress or trauma that can leave you feeling disconnected from your thoughts, emotions, body, or surroundings. Therapy helps you understand the underlying causes, build safety and grounding skills, and reconnect with yourself at a pace that feels manageable.  

 Self-harm and suicidal thoughts are often signs of overwhelming emotional pain and deserve compassionate, professional support. Therapy focuses on creating safety, understanding the underlying causes, building healthier coping skills, and fostering hope through a personalized, trauma-informed approach. 

 Parts Work is a therapeutic approach that helps you understand the different aspects of yourself with curiosity and compassion. Rather than viewing these parts as something negative, therapy explores how they developed to protect or support you and helps them heal. This process can increase self-awareness, emotional regulation, self-compassion, and a stronger connection to your authentic self. 

Christian Counseling combines evidence-based therapy with Christian faith for clients who want their beliefs incorporated into the healing process. Faith is integrated thoughtfully and never replaces professional mental health treatment or is imposed on clients. I welcome individuals of all backgrounds and tailor therapy to each client's personal values, goals, and preferences. 

 While I do not provide family or couples therapy, I may invite parents, caregivers, or other trusted support people to participate in portions of individual therapy sessions when doing so is clinically appropriate.

Ear Acupuncture (AcuDetox) is a supplemental treatment that can be integrated into your session per your request to assist in reducing anxiety, building confidence for trauma work, and calming the nervous system.