When Understanding Hasn’t Been Enough
You may already understand how earlier experiences shaped you. Yet your body and emotions may still react as though an old danger, demand, or relationship is happening now.
Our work together directly addresses with persistent trauma patterns—not just their symptoms or explanations.
The goal is greater freedom from automatic survival responses and a more trustworthy relationship with yourself.
Specialized Trauma Therapy for Adults
I provide individual psychotherapy for adults who continue to live with the effects of sexual abuse, physical abuse, PTSD, or significant childhood neglect. I also work with clients dealing with moral injury or spiritual trauma. These experiences may still affect your nervous system, relationships, boundaries, sense of safety, and relationship with yourself—even when you understand the past and function well in many areas of life.
Treatment is intended to help loosen survival patterns that are no longer serving you and restore capacities trauma may have disrupted: feeling present in your body, trusting your own signals, remaining connected to yourself under pressure, accepting support, protecting your boundaries, and moving forward with greater freedom.
We usually begin with standard, one-hour sessions and allow the most useful treatment structure to emerge after several sessions. Depending on your needs, this may include weekly or biweekly therapy, occasional expanded sessions, or a more concentrated period of treatment focused on a particular pattern or goal.
What is Developmental Neglect?
Developmental neglect occurs when a child repeatedly lacks essential experiences such as protection, comfort, emotional responsiveness, guidance, or repair—even when practical needs are met. Unlike a single traumatic event, it is often defined by what did not happen. A child may adapt by minimizing their needs, becoming highly self-reliant, monitoring others, or disconnecting from their emotions and body. In adulthood, these adaptations can affect trust, boundaries, relationships, self-worth, and the ability to remain connected to oneself.
What This Work Asks of You:
A consistent commitment to the therapy process.
Willingness to participate actively and try something new.
Openness to an integrative, mind-body approach.
Honest communication about your needs, pace, and what is helping.