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.
Who I help
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 understand what's happening beneath the surface, make sense of your experiences, and develop healthier ways of relating to yourself and others.
Areas of focus
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.
Dysfunctional family systems & 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.
My approach
Compassionate. Curious. Trauma-informed.
The ways you learned to cope, protect yourself, or manage difficult emotions may have helped you survive earlier experiences — even when they no longer serve 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 experienced complex or ongoing trauma, healing can mean more than simply learning to cope with what is happening right now. It can mean understanding the patterns you developed to survive, making sense of the parts of yourself that learned to stay guarded, and gradually creating 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
Ready to understand the pattern — and change what comes next?
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.