Trauma

Trauma is not about what happened

Trauma is defined by what an experience did to you, not by what the experience was. Two people can go through the same event and respond very differently. That is not about resilience or strength — it is about how the nervous system processes what it could not make sense of at the time.

Trauma can show up as intrusive memories, hypervigilance, emotional numbness, difficulty trusting people, or a sense of being disconnected from your own life. It can arrive long after the event itself.

What I can help with

I work with people carrying the impact of difficult or traumatic experiences — including childhood experiences, loss, accidents, relationships, and situations where they felt powerless or unsafe. I am trauma-informed in my approach, which means I work carefully and at your pace. You will never be pushed to go somewhere before you are ready.

You do not need to have a clear narrative of what happened to begin. Sometimes the work starts with understanding how it lives in you now.