Complex trauma, often rooted in early family and relational dynamics, can have a significant and lasting impact. With my clients, I often see this present as persistent anxiety, feelings of overwhelm, cycles of self-criticism, difficulty setting boundaries, and repeated challenges in relationships. We will explore how your personal history is currently impacting your life, and provide you with new tools to shift automatic responses and reclaim your agency.
Our work together will center around:
Understanding the Blueprint: Exploring how trauma has shaped your core beliefs about yourself, your safety, and current protective responses that may no longer be serving you.
Disrupting the Cycle: Recognizing and actively shifting generational and/or dysfunctional relational patterns. This includes connecting with and processing your emotions, reparenting yourself by offering your inner child the compassionate adult presence they needed, shifting your inner critic toward curiosity and self-compassion, and building the skills for healthier boundary setting and communication.
Building Relational Capacity: Cultivating new, authentic ways to connect with yourself and others that feel safe and aligned with your values.
The truth is, you cannot change your past experiences. But with therapy, you can learn a different perspective to better understand yourself, reparent your younger self, and be the adult you always wished you had growing up. It's never too late to do trauma work (I've literally worked with clients in their 80s going to therapy for the first time)—you already have the innate capacity for healing within you!
