Healing from complex trauma
Understanding how long-term or repeated experiences of trauma can continue to affect your emotions, relationships, sense of safety, and connection to yourself.
Support for what you're carrying — named or not yet named.
Sometimes we know exactly what we're struggling with. Other times, we just know something doesn't feel right. Therapy can help you make sense of your experiences and develop healthier ways of relating to yourself and others.
Areas of focus
Who I help
Emotional regulation
Learning to understand and work with intense emotions, overwhelm, shutdown, hypervigilance, and other nervous-system responses.
Reconnecting with yourself
Moving beyond survival and toward a stronger sense of identity, authenticity, self-compassion, and choice.
Childhood wounds & attachment
Exploring the early relationships and experiences that shaped how you connect, trust, communicate, and see yourself.
Anxiety, overthinking & the need for control
Working through persistent worry, emotional overwhelm, and the urge to anticipate or manage everything when uncertainty feels hard to tolerate.
Developmental trauma & the lasting effects of early or overwhelming experiences
Making sense of developmental trauma, and the lasting effects of early or overwhelming experiences on how you feel and relate today.
Challenging family dynamics, and generational patterns
Understanding the family dynamics, roles, expectations, and patterns you may have learned to survive — and deciding what you want to carry forward and what you want to leave behind.
PTSD after a single traumatic event
Support for PTSD following one serious traumatic event — an accident, assault, medical emergency, loss, or other frightening experience — including flashbacks, nightmares, avoidance, and feeling on edge long after it ended.
Perfectionism & self-criticism
Letting go of impossible standards, harsh self-judgment, and the feeling that you're never doing enough.
Relationships & communication
Understanding conflict, communication patterns, attachment, trust, connection, and the ways you relate to others.
Boundaries & people-pleasing
Learning to honor your needs, communicate them clearly, and set boundaries without feeling selfish.
Self-compassion & self-trust
Developing a kinder relationship with yourself and offering yourself the compassion you readily give others.
Life transitions & identity
Finding your footing during change, uncertainty, identity exploration, or feeling lost and ungrounded.
What therapy looks like
What can I expect from therapy?
Our sessions are collaborative and conversational. We'll talk about what's bringing you in, what you're noticing in your life and relationships, and what you'd like to understand or change. Sometimes we'll focus on what's happening right now; other times, we'll explore where certain responses or patterns may have developed. We'll work at a pace that feels manageable and adjust as we go.
My approach
Compassionate. Curious. Trauma-informed.
However you learned to cope, protect yourself, or manage difficult emotions, there was a reason for it — even when it no longer serves you.
Compassionate
Your patterns developed for a reason. We look at them with care rather than judgment.
Curious
Therapy is a place to slow down and get genuinely interested in what's happening beneath the surface.
Trauma-informed
Safety and pacing come first, so meaningful work never means being pushed before you're ready.
We go beyond the surface.
I believe meaningful change often requires looking beneath what's happening today. In our work together, we'll explore the experiences, relationships, childhood wounds, family dynamics, and patterns that have shaped the way you see yourself and move through the world.
For those who have lived with complex or ongoing trauma, that can mean gradually building a greater sense of safety, connection, and choice.
Hard things deserve to be taken seriously — and when it feels supportive to you, a little humor can sit alongside them. Lightness is never used to minimize what you're carrying or to rush you past it; it's simply there when it helps the work feel more human.
Take the next step
Curious whether therapy could help?
Start with a complimentary 15-minute consultation, or book a first session. There is no pressure to have the right words before you reach out.
Sessions are available in person in Houston or by telehealth anywhere in Texas.