Trauma therapy and somatic healing in Colorado

Empathetic SUPPORT FOR Individuals Navigating the impact of Trauma on Relationships & Bodies

Struggling with how past painful experiences are impacting your current relationships?

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Trauma and other past painful experiences, attachment wounding, and oppression can leave us feeling really alone and like nobody will ever understand us. We might also feel like our emotions are out of control or feel completely numb and detached. A partner or friend might express they feel we are “stonewalling” or “shutting them out.”

Some of us struggle to find words for what is happening inside of us in response to these experiences…

or can’t pinpoint exactly what about today's experience feels off or related to something in the past.

We might question ourselves and our experience, or dismiss our feelings and responses to particular situations as an overreaction or not valid. Maybe we feel like we are on autopilot, wishing we could be more engaged, but finding ourselves unable to connect more fully to ourselves and our loved ones. We may have a difficult time relaxing, especially when we are out in the world, almost like we have to brace our bodies against the next possible impact or be on alert in preparation to run. We might feel broken, unworthy, or unloveable. Sometimes it feels like nothing will ever change or get better. We might be exhausted, so tired the world demands so much resilience.

You aren’t broken and in need of being ‘fixed.’

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You might be wounded and in need of being attended to, and that’s what you are doing here now. What we can do together. 

These experiences you are having that have resulted in you feeling broken are actually normal and evolutionarily wired responses to trauma and harm. You aren’t what is wrong. A world that causes people to have to live in a place of trauma response is what is unhealthy. 

I’m not here to tell you everything is okay. Everything is not okay.

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No amount of my training and experience will undo the things that have happened. And also, this does not mean you’re stuck where you are and nothing in your life will ever change. I believe there’s hope and that healing is possible. If I didn’t, I wouldn’t be doing this work. The worst parts of these experiences have already happened and you have made it through them; I believe you have the strength and capacity to find your way through this hard part now. With guidance and support, you can engage in some of the deeper and more difficult trauma work to move forward in your life with more authenticity and fulfillment.

I’m here to partner with you in all of it.

You’ll find a space to process, be met in relationship and heal from these experiences in our work together. Trauma typically occurs in relationships (in relation to others), which can further impact how we show up in our relationships today, even when the trauma happened long ago. Healing together in relationship can be incredibly powerful and is often a necessary part of our work. The therapeutic relationship can be a safer and more stable option to begin that healing as you learn the skills and tools you need to find your voice, set your boundaries, and honor your joy in relationships outside the therapy session.

Throughout sessions, I will support you as you learn to identify and manage difficult emotions or uncomfortable physical sensations as they arise. Additionally, I help you work toward creating and/or nourishing your relationship with your body, learning to listen to the wisdom of your body in your day-to-day life. I’ll also help you learn skills and tools needed to address some of the symptoms common with trauma.

Trauma therapy can support you in:

  • Learning how to let people love you; let those people who have earned your vulnerability and softness experience those tender parts of you.

  • Nurturing a relationship with your body that allows you to honor your own boundaries and share what you want with your partner on your own terms. This shouldn’t be a “have to,” but instead a “get to.”

  • Connecting into the relationship between you and you in such a way that better allows you to invite others into your world.

  • Feeling seen and understood in the therapeutic relationship in such a way that you learn more about how to create that in your relationships in your life.

  • Being able to wake up and take more control over your own life. You can’t change what has already happened, but you can heal in such a way that you get to choose where you go from here.

  • Increasing your capacity to choose in life, especially meaningful choice. Your ways of surviving have been wise, and now you can choose other ways of being too.

I’m here to help you on your healing journey

Let’s get started in our work together toward fostering your happier life of more meaningful choice through trauma healing.

Trauma Therapy for…

  • Complex and developmental trauma (CPTSD)

  • Adult survivors of Sexual Assault and Sexual Abuse

  • Intimate Partner Abuse and Domestic Violence

  • Hate-motivated violence

  • Institutional, Systemic, Interpersonal, and Internalized Oppression

  • Adult survivors of child abuse and neglect

  • Attachment wounding and insecure attachments

  • Intergenerational Trauma

  • Religious trauma or harm

  • Shifting from Codependency to Interdependency