MULTI-MODALITY APPROACH

Therapy for Trauma Recovery

Corpus Christi • Texas • Oregon • Washington

Individual therapy is a space just for you to slow down, explore what feels heavy, and begin untangling the patterns that keep you stuck and cycling through.

Whether you’re carrying the weight of trauma, navigating anxiety or depression, feeling disconnected from yourself or others, or simply longing for change you can’t quite name, therapy offers a place to reconnect with your story and your strengths. My approach is both structured and deeply human: I integrate body-based trauma therapies like Somatic EMDR, Brainspotting, and Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy with relational and attachment-focused work. Together, we’ll address not just thoughts and emotions, but also the nervous system responses that shape how you feel and function each day. Step by step, therapy becomes a process of understanding yourself more fully, releasing what no longer serves you, and reclaiming the capacity to feel steady, connected, and alive.

We can help with:

  • Loss and Grief

    Grief isn’t just about death; it follows any major loss—relationship, infertility, illness, career change, or lost dream. Though you may appear fine, inside you might feel heavy, confused, or isolated. Grief shows as sadness, anger, exhaustion, or disconnection. When usual coping fails, healing begins. Using trauma-informed, body-based methods like somatic therapy, mindfulness, and nervous system regulation, we’ll gently process what’s stuck, making space for relief and reconnection. Healing means carrying grief with ease and meaning, keeping your loss close to your heart.

  • Athletes and Performers

    Behind every strong performance is a person with real emotions and needs. Athletes often push themselves hard, but this pressure can cause anxiety, burnout, and loss of joy. You may face self-criticism, disconnection from your identity, grief, or loneliness. This isn’t weakness—it’s overload. Therapy offers a space without performance pressure, using trauma-informed, body-based methods to release tension, ease inner pressure, and nurture the whole person. This work restores balance and joy beyond achievement.

  • Military, Veterans, First Responders & Law Enforcement

    Behind every uniform is a person with real emotions and needs. Service members, veterans, law enforcement, firefighters, EMTs, and first responders often face exhaustion, anxiety, and trauma from constant pressure to stay strong. Signs may include hypervigilance, irritability, sleeplessness, grief, or feeling detached—these are not weaknesses but the human cost of long-term service. Therapy offers a chance to step off duty through trauma-informed methods like somatic work, nervous system regulation, mindfulness, and compassionate inquiry, helping release trauma, ease symptoms, and restore balance. This work honors your humanity and guides you toward peace both in and beyond your service.

  • High Achievers

    High achievers often appear successful but may struggle with exhaustion, stress, and self-doubt. Burnout and disconnection are common, leading to fatigue, overwork, and detachment from joy and relationships. These signs signal a need for care. Trauma-informed, body-based therapies like somatic therapy, nervous system regulation, and mindfulness help release stress, ease perfectionism, and restore balance. This approach sustains ambition with clarity, energy, and self-trust—achieving success without sacrificing well-being.

  • Complex Trauma

    Challenging experiences from childhood, stress, or demanding roles can leave lasting effects on mind and body. Your nervous system may stay in survival mode, causing pain, numbness, insomnia, irritability, guilt, or burnout. These signs aren’t weakness but your body's protection. Over time, they hinder connection and rest. Healing means not forgetting but no longer being defined by the past. Trauma-informed, body-based therapies can soothe the nervous system, process pain, and help you move from survival to presence, balance, and renewed safety, making fulfillment possible again.

  • Attachment Injuries

    Attachment injuries occur when early bonds for safety and love are broken by neglect, loss, or inconsistency. Unavailable caregivers cause the nervous system to adapt for survival, impacting trust and connection lifelong. Signs include anxiety about closeness, fear of abandonment, mistrust, withdrawal, or perfectionism—protective habits that now hinder intimacy. Through Somatic EMDR, Brainspotting, and IFS-informed therapy, we gently heal these wounds, release survival patterns, and rebuild self-trust. Healing transforms past pain to foster genuine connection with yourself and others.

  • Religious Trauma

    Faith and spirituality should bring love, belonging, and meaning. When shaped by fear or judgment, they can cause wounds affecting self-view, relationships, and spirituality. You may carry shame, guilt, or fear after leaving harmful environments, struggling with identity or belonging. These are protective responses, not flaws. Healing means reclaiming your own spirituality and self-worth. Using trauma-informed methods like Somatic EMDR, Brainspotting, and Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy, we help release fear and shame, rebuild trust, and find authentic meaning. Healing spiritual trauma is becoming whole, grounded, and at home within yourself.

  • Dissociation

    Dissociation protects you when life feels overwhelming, helping you cope in the moment. Over time, it can cause numbness, detachment, or feeling like an outsider in your own life. Symptoms include zoning out, lost time, and feeling distant in relationships—signs your nervous system is protecting you. Healing involves creating safety in your body so dissociation reduces. Trauma-informed therapies like Somatic EMDR, Brainspotting, and Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy gently release survival responses, build trust in your body, and increase presence. Gradually, you can feel grounded, emotionally present, and connected without disconnecting from yourself.

  • ADHD

    ADHD isn’t about laziness or lack of effort it’s a nervous system difference that affects focus, planning, and follow-through. While it can bring creativity and drive, it can also lead to overwhelm, burnout, and self-criticism.

    You might notice missed appointments, forgetfulness, cycles of hyperfocus and exhaustion, or constant guilt for not doing “enough.” These aren’t personal failings they’re signs your brain processes attention and motivation differently.

    Therapy helps you work with your brain, not against it. Using practical strategies and body-based approaches like Somatic EMDR, IFS, and nervous-system regulation, we’ll reduce shame, build structure, and create systems that support balance and focus.

    ADHD isn’t a flaw it’s a difference. With the right tools and understanding, you can channel your energy into what matters most.

  • Sexuality, Intimacy & Connection

    Sexuality involves trust, safety, and connection with yourself and others, not just physical closeness. Trauma, shame, cultural or religious conditioning, and relationship stress can turn intimacy from comforting to confusing or painful. This may cause low desire, discomfort, anxiety, or emotional distance. These reactions protect you when closeness once felt unsafe. Healing requires safety in both mind and body. Using trauma-informed, attachment-based methods like Somatic EMDR and mindfulness, we gently release unhelpful patterns. The goal is building safety, curiosity, and compassion, leading to ease, pleasure, and authentic connection based on trust and self-acceptance.

  • Problematic Sexual Behavior & Sexual Compulsions

    Sexual compulsions and problematic sexual behaviors are often misunderstood. They’re not about a lack of control or morality they’re coping strategies developed to manage pain, shame, or disconnection. Behaviors like compulsive pornography use, infidelity, or risky encounters may start as attempts to soothe stress or loneliness but can evolve into cycles of craving, secrecy, and guilt.

    When trauma, attachment wounds, or shame disrupt the brain’s natural regulation of pleasure and connection, sex can become a way the nervous system seeks relief. Over time, this coping pattern can lead to disconnection from partners, from intimacy, and from your own sense of self.

    Through trauma-informed, body-based approaches such as Somatic EMDR, Brainspotting, hypnotherapy, and attachment-focused therapy, we work to uncover the roots of these patterns. Together, we build tools for emotional regulation, reduce shame and secrecy, and restore the capacity for safe, authentic connection.

    Healing isn’t about control it’s about compassion. With support, it’s possible to break free from compulsive cycles and reconnect with a sexuality that feels grounded, fulfilling, and aligned with who you truly are.

  • Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and Body-Focused Repetitive Behaviors

    Living with OCD or body-focused repetitive behaviors (BFRBs) like hair pulling, skin picking, or nail biting can feel exhausting and isolating. Even when you know the thoughts or urges don’t make sense, stopping can feel impossible leaving you stuck in cycles of anxiety, relief, and shame.

    You might notice replaying “what if” thoughts, checking or washing rituals, losing hours to compulsions, or hiding marks and habits out of embarrassment. These aren’t failures of willpower they’re patterns your brain and body created to manage distress.

    We use evidence- and body-based approaches to help shift these patterns at the root:

    Inference-Based CBT (I-CBT): Targets the faulty logic driving obsessions

    Exposure & Response Prevention (ERP): Retrains the brain to feel safe without rituals

    Somatic therapies: Calm the nervous system and reduce urges

    Healing means spending less time in compulsions, responding to urges with choice, and rebuilding self-trust and ease. OCD and BFRBs aren’t signs of weakness they’re survival patterns that can be reshaped with the right tools and support.

  • Substance Use & Coping with Pain

    Substance use is often misunderstood. It’s rarely about poor choices or lack of willpower it’s a coping strategy for pain, trauma, stress, or disconnection. Substances can temporarily numb emotions, quiet anxiety, or offer relief, but over time they often lead to cycles of craving, guilt, and isolation.

    You might notice drinking to relax but feeling regret afterward, using to escape difficult emotions, relying on stimulants to push through exhaustion, or smoking as your only way to pause. These patterns aren’t moral failures they’re the nervous system’s attempt to find safety and relief in the only way it knows how.

    Our work focuses on healing what’s underneath the behavior, not just stopping it. Through a compassionate, harm-reduction approach, we tailor treatment to your goals whether that’s moderation, abstinence, or understanding your relationship with substances. Using trauma-informed methods like Somatic EMDR, Brainspotting, IFS-informed therapy, and Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy (when appropriate), we address the root causes trauma, grief, shame, and emotional pain.

    Healing isn’t about deprivation it’s about gaining more: more freedom, more presence, and deeper connection with yourself and others. Over time, you can build sustainable tools to manage stress, reduce cravings, and live with clarity and choice.

  • Food, Body Image, and Self-Compassion

    Food and body struggles aren’t about willpower but are adaptive responses to stress, trauma, or unmet emotional needs. What seems like “just eating issues” often relates to safety, regulation, and self-worth. Patterns may include food restriction, comfort eating, guilt, body obsession, or hidden habits—all exhausting and isolating despite outward appearances. These behaviors are survival strategies, not failures. Healing starts with compassion, using trauma-informed, body-based therapies and mindfulness to uncover root causes, regulate the nervous system, and restore trust with your body. This leads to guilt-free eating, body connection, and greater balance and peace.

  • Perinatal & Reproductive Mental Health Across Life Stages

    Mental health challenges can occur throughout the reproductive journey. Pregnancy and postpartum may bring anxiety, depression, birth trauma, or grief from miscarriage, stillbirth, or fertility loss. Partners often face hidden stress, feeling pressure to stay strong. These struggles can overwhelm and disconnect families. Later, perimenopause and menopause cause emotional and identity shifts, with mood changes and grief sometimes linked to past pain. These issues affect heart, body, and self. Using trauma-informed, body-based methods like somatic therapy, nervous system regulation, mindfulness, and compassionate inquiry, I help clients heal, restore balance, and reconnect. Healing integrates pain with care, fostering clarity, resilience, and connection at every stage.

  • Healing After High-Control or Harmful Groups

    Belonging to a community or faith group can fulfill needs for love, safety, and meaning. However, in controlling or harmful environments, belonging often requires obedience or fear, causing lasting emotional wounds. This may lead to hiding parts of yourself, guilt, anxiety, or mistrust in your judgment. Leaving can bring grief, confusion, and isolation, but these are natural responses to conditional safety and love.

    Therapy helps you rebuild trust in yourself using trauma-informed, body-based methods like Somatic EMDR, Brainspotting, and Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy to release fear and control held in the nervous system. Healing is about reclaiming your voice, joy, and self-defined belonging, moving from survival to freedom without hiding who you are to be worthy of love.

  • Living With Chronic Illness & Disabilities

    Chronic illness and disability impact more than the body—they shape identity, relationships, and emotions. You may seem fine outwardly while carrying exhaustion, grief, or frustration from a world not built for your needs. You might endure pain, feel unseen, mourn lost independence, or question your identity beyond illness. These are natural responses to chronic strain and medical invalidation, not weakness.

    In therapy, we honor all parts of your experience—grief, anger, resilience, hope. Using trauma-informed, body-based methods, we help you process loss, release shame, regulate your nervous system, and reconnect with joy and identity beyond illness.

    Healing doesn’t erase symptoms but fosters balance, self-compassion, and meaning. Together, we aim for grounding, support, and wholeness amid ongoing challenges.

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  • BIPOC Experiences

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  • Depression

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  • Anxiety

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  • ADHD

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