Whatever you are experiencing, this is a compassionate and caring space to notice, explore and heal.
Trauma Therapy
OUR Trauma therapy APPROACh
The lasting and often invisible effects of trauma can't be overstated - they infuse our lives and world in myriad indictable ways. The very means our systems used to survive and function in difficult places and spaces by seeing things as "not a big deal", feeling it's "my fault" or believing things were "fine" when they weren't.
In this work, we gain mindfulness, inner reparenting and nervous system regulation skills to allow us to slowly get to know how we were effected by what happened. We move at your system's pace. By gently focusing on your system, through IFS and somatic approaches, we attune to your physical sensations, your emotions, your thoughts. We hold care to allow your system to stretch in safety.
Mindfulness allows us to notice what is present. IFS offers a beautiful framework to help us get to know your system, increasing your understanding and increasing self-acceptance. You can stay anchored in the here and now and offer care compassion to yourself.
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"Trauma creates change you don't choose.
Healing is about creating change you do choose."
~Michele Rosenthal"
BECOMING SELF-LED
Healing from trauma is not about forcing change. Ideally, it is about creating enough safety to gently turn toward what has been carried inside our minds and living in our body and nervous system. It is being with what we've carried, the pain that continued to shape our feelings and reaction long after experiences have passed, and bring softness, spaciousness and acceptance to those places.
Together, we focus on increasing nervous system capacity and developing internal trust and safety. Protective parts no longer have to work so hard to manage pain and keep difficult experiences pushed away. Safety grows and emotions, memories, and physical sensations can be met with curiosity and compassion rather than fear and urgency.
We intentionally slow down and listen. We hold gentleness around what arises. This allows healing to unfold with respect and care.
You may notice greater self-acceptance, emotional flexibility, patience and a deeper sense of connection to yourself and others.
Healing becomes less about fixing what feels broken and more about supporting your system in accessing its natural capacity for spaciousness, calm, and connection-both within and with others.
"Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it."
~Tori Amos