Trauma & Nervous System Support
When your body has been living in survival mode for too long.
Trauma isn’t only about what happened to you... it’s about what your nervous system had to learn in order to survive.
You may appear “high-functioning” on the outside, while inside you feel:
- Constantly on edge or shut down
- Emotionally reactive or numb
- Exhausted, even after rest
- Stuck in patterns you understand logically but can’t seem to change
This isn’t weakness.
It’s a nervous system that adapted to keep you safe.
Trauma Lives in the Nervous System — Not Just the Mind
Many people come to therapy knowing why they feel the way they do... but still feeling unable to change it.
That’s because trauma is not resolved through insight alone.
Trauma can show up as:
- Anxiety, panic, or chronic overwhelm
- Emotional dysregulation
- People-pleasing, perfectionism, or hyper-independence
- Shutdown, avoidance, or numbness
- Difficulty feeling safe in relationships
- Living in fight, flight, freeze, or fawn
These are not character flaws.
They are adaptive survival responses.
A Trauma-Informed, Nervous-System-Centered Approach
My work focuses on creating safety first... in your body, your emotions, and the therapeutic relationship.
This is not about pushing, reliving, or “digging” before you’re ready.
Together, we work to:
- Understand your nervous system responses with compassion
- Increase regulation and emotional capacity
- Gently shift patterns that no longer serve you
- Build safety in the present, not just insight about the past
- Move at a pace your system can tolerate
Healing happens when your body no longer feels like it has to stay on guard.
This Work Is Especially Supportive If You:
- Have lived through chronic stress, emotional neglect, or relational trauma
- Feel stuck in survival patterns despite self-awareness
- Experience intense emotional reactions or shutdown
- Struggle with boundaries, self-trust, or self-worth
- Feel exhausted from “holding it together” for years
- Are parenting, caregiving, or supporting others while depleted
We Go Slowly. We Go Safely. We Go Together.
Trauma-informed therapy is not about fixing you... it’s about helping your nervous system learn that it no longer has to protect you in the same ways.
There is no pressure to share everything.
There is no expectation to perform healing.
There is room for pauses, silence, and uncertainty.
Your system leads the pace.
Taking the Next Step
Healing isn’t about becoming someone new — it’s about nurturing the journey back to yourself.
You don’t need to know whether what you experienced “counts” as trauma.
If your body is holding onto something, that’s enough.
Support doesn’t have to be forceful to be effective.
It can be gentle, steady, and deeply respectful.