About Me

I specialize in complex trauma with adults, most often trauma that began in childhood and shaped how safe it feels to be yourself and to be close to other people. Many of the clients I work with are insightful and motivated and have already done real work, but still find themselves stuck in emotional reactions and patterns that insight, coping strategies, or previous therapy haven't shifted.

I'm trained to Level 3, the highest level currently offered, in IFS-informed EMDR — a protocol developed specifically to improve EMDR's effectiveness for people with chronic or repeated trauma. I'm also a certified Coherence Therapy practitioner. Both are grounded in memory reconsolidation: the process by which emotional learnings, including traumatic ones, are transformed rather than managed or overridden. In practice this means I'm working from an explicit understanding of what has to happen in your brain and nervous system for deep, long-lasting change to take place.

I'm deliberate about direction. Early on we build a shared picture of where the work is heading and what needs to shift to get there, and I'll explain plainly what I think those steps are rather than leaving the map implicit. My pace and emphasis change with each person, but most often I weave EMDR, IFS, and Coherence Therapy together.

For clients with more severe CPTSD, a lot of the focus of my work is relational. In many cases, the first tolerable path toward deep change is the experience of a relationship safe enough to be genuinely close in, and trauma processing becomes possible from there.

Alongside attachment trauma, I work with racial trauma, class trauma, religious trauma, internalized homophobia, and other internalized experiences of stigma and discrimination.