Specializations

Complex trauma comes from repeated or long-term distressing experiences, often beginning in childhood or within relationships. Unlike a single event, it develops over time and affects how you see yourself, others, and the world. In therapy, we build safety, explore protective parts, and release old survival strategies for lasting change.

Dissociation is a natural coping response the brain uses to handle overwhelming or traumatic experiences. It may feel like spacing out or being disconnected from your body, thoughts, or surroundings. For some, it becomes more complex and persistent, affecting daily life, relationships, and sense of self. In therapy, I work with individuals across the dissociative spectrum—from mild disconnection to complex forms such as Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) and Other Specified Dissociative Disorder.

Many relationship challenges stem from early attachment wounds that shape how we connect as adults. In therapy, we gently explore how these patterns formed and support healing at the nervous system level—building self-awareness, emotional regulation, healthy boundaries, and the ability for secure, authentic connection. Whether you’re navigating a current relationship or healing from the past, this work helps break painful cycles and nurture stability and fulfillment.

Living with a chronic illness means navigating physical symptoms, medical appointments, and lifestyle adjustments—but it also comes with emotional, mental, and social challenges that are often overlooked. Therapy can provide a compassionate space to process the impact of illness on your identity, relationships, and overall well-being.

Anxiety is your body’s way of trying to protect you. It’s part of your natural stress response system—designed to alert you to danger and help you respond. But when that system becomes overactive or dysregulated, anxiety can become chronic, overwhelming, and difficult to control. In therapy, we work together to understand the roots of your anxiety and develop tools to help you regulate your nervous system, shift unhelpful patterns, and reclaim a sense of safety and inner calm.

Exploring identity, especially as a queer, neurodivergent, or otherwise marginalized person, can be both empowering and complex. Many carry the weight of shame, erasure, or pressure to conform in a world that wasn’t built with them in mind. Therapy offers a space to untangle internalized messages, affirm your lived experience, and build a more grounded, authentic relationship with who you are. This work will support your healing in a way that is liberatory, not pathologizing.