My Approach

I use various therapy approaches to help you release trauma and heal.

These approaches are proven to aid clients in addressing their trauma and gain a more satisfying quality of life.

Here are the approaches that I use to heal trauma.

Trauma Healing with Somatic Experiencing

Developed by Dr. Peter Levine, Somatic Experiencing is a body-focused intervention to heal trauma. With Somatic Experiencing, I don’t force you to “face” the trauma memory.

Instead, I guide you to remain curious about the sensations and feelings that come up for you in your body. I am trained to monitor your bodily reactions as you share.

When I notice your body getting stressed, I will invite us to pause and pay attention to what is happening to your body. When we pause, we get to tune into what your body might need at that moment and take care of your body by providing that need. This part, known as resourcing, is used through the process of Somatic Experiencing therapy.

No longer are you straining to come up with “solutions” to your mental health struggles and then feeling ashamed when you are not healed. Many of us do not know this, but it is impossible to think your way out of trauma. Real trauma healing happens when you include the body in the healing process, with its sensations and feelings.

By guiding you and letting you tell your story slowly, we’ll avoid deepening the trauma and honor your body’s needs as you heal.

Trauma Healing with Written Exposure Therapy

Written Exposure Therapy was developed by Dr. Denise Sloan and Dr. Brian Marx in response to a growing demand for effective Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) treatment.

For some of us, talking about the trauma just feels impossible.

Some clients have shared that talking about the trauma brings an overwhelming sense of shame and isolation. The words just don’t come, and they feel silenced by the harm all over again. They wonder if healing is out of reach for them.

Others have dropped out of previous trauma treatment, stating that treatment was too long and required that they be exposed to the same trauma repeatedly. These clients tell me that the idea of being in therapy and working on the same trauma across many sessions fills them with dread. Healing feels out of reach for them, too.

With Written Exposure Therapy, treatment takes only five sessions and is complete in 5-6 weeks. That is because Written Exposure therapy is a brief form of therapy, and it is as effective as longer, exposure-based treatments to resolve trauma.

In session, you write about the trauma and gain treatment benefits that way. You learn about reactions to trauma and PTSD. I will guide you through the process, so you don’t feel lost. Finally, you will spend 30 minutes writing about the traumatic event.

You will write about the traumatic event during each subsequent session. After each session, I will collect the narrative, and you will receive instructions on how to proceed at the start of each session.

Not a good writer? It doesn’t matter. Written Exposure Therapy is even effective with some of the worst writers. Your writing skills don’t matter here, just that you write about what happened to you.

Now, you don’t have to live with trauma. You don’t have to spend months or years talking about what happened to feel relief.