Trauma Therapy
A Journey of Integration and Creative Healing
Discovering Wholeness Through Parts Work and Expressive Arts
When trauma lives in the body, it speaks in a language beyond words—through sensations, emotions, and the subtle divisions we create within ourselves to survive. My approach to trauma therapy honors this complexity, weaving together Internal Family Systems, depth-oriented psychotherapy, and creative expression to help you reconnect with the fractured parts of your story and find your way back to wholeness.
Understanding Trauma Through the Lens of Parts
Trauma isn't simply something that happened to you; it's the way your inner system organized itself to protect you from overwhelming experiences. In my practice, I view trauma through the gentle, curious lens of parts work, recognizing that what we often label as symptoms—anxiety, depression, dissociation—are actually protective parts doing their best to keep you safe from pain they believe you cannot bear.
These protective parts emerged for good reasons. They helped you survive experiences that felt unsurvivable. Yet now, in the present moment, they may be keeping you from the depth of connection, creativity, and aliveness you're seeking. Through our work together, I help you understand these parts not as problems to be fixed, but as aspects of yourself deserving of compassion and integration.
My Therapeutic Approach to Trauma Healing
Internal Family Systems: Meeting Your Inner Community
At the heart of my trauma therapy practice lies Internal Family Systems (IFS), a transformative approach that recognizes the multiplicity within each of us. Rather than pathologizing the voices, feelings, and impulses that arise from trauma, IFS invites us to befriend these parts, understanding their positive intentions and helping them release the burdens they've been carrying.
In our sessions, I guide you in developing a relationship with your Self—that core essence of who you are that remains untouched by trauma. From this centered place, you can approach your wounded parts with curiosity and compassion, allowing them to tell their stories, express their pain, and ultimately, transform their roles in your inner system.
Depth-Oriented Psychotherapy: Exploring the Sacred Wounds
Trauma work requires descent—a willingness to journey into the depths of your psyche where the original wounds reside. Through depth-oriented psychotherapy, I support you in this sacred exploration, helping you navigate the shadowy territories where trauma has taken root. This isn't about reliving pain, but about reclaiming the parts of yourself that got lost in the darkness.
I work with dreams, symbols, and the poetic language of the unconscious, recognizing that healing happens not just through talking about trauma, but through engaging with it creatively and symbolically. Your psyche knows how to heal itself; my role is to create the conditions where this natural healing process can unfold.
Emotional Freedom Technique: Releasing Trauma from the Body
Trauma lives in the body as much as in the mind. Through Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT/Tapping), I help you gently release the energetic imprints of traumatic experiences. This somatic approach works beautifully alongside parts work, offering your protective parts a tangible way to discharge the tension and vigilance they've been holding.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: Living Beyond Survival
As you heal, I incorporate principles from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help you move from merely surviving to truly living. This means developing the capacity to hold difficult emotions without being overwhelmed by them, and committing to actions aligned with your deepest values—even when parts of you feel afraid.
The Creative Path to Trauma Integration
For the emotionally curious and creative souls I work with, traditional talk therapy often feels incomplete. You need more than words to express the complexity of your inner world. In my practice, I invite creative expression as a vital part of trauma healing—not as art therapy in the traditional sense, but as a way of giving form to the formless, voice to the voiceless parts within.
Between sessions, I offer parts therapy prompts designed to deepen your relationship with different aspects of yourself. These might include:
Journaling dialogues with protective parts
Creative expressions of what your parts are holding
Symbolic representations of your inner landscape
Poetic explorations of your healing journey
This creative engagement allows trauma to transform from a story of wounding into a narrative of profound growth and self-discovery.
What Trauma Therapy Looks Like in My Practice
The Sacred Container of Weekly Sessions
Trauma healing requires consistency and safety. I typically work with clients on a weekly basis at a scheduled recurring time, creating a reliable container where all parts of you can show up exactly as they are. This regularity helps your nervous system learn to trust, allowing deeper layers of healing to emerge organically.
Beyond the Session Room
Our work extends far beyond our time together. I encourage you to remain in conversation with the parts we explore in session, providing you with specific practices and reflections tailored to your unique inner system. This might include parts check-ins, creative exercises, or somatic practices that help you stay connected to your healing process throughout the week.
A Collaborative Journey
After our initial intake process—which unfolds over the first three sessions as we explore your family, cultural, social, medical, and mental health history—we identify three to five guiding goals for our work together. These goals emerge from your own knowing about what needs attention, combined with my clinical insights about how trauma may be impacting your life.
Who This Approach Serves Best
My trauma therapy practice resonates most deeply with individuals who are:
Already on a healing path and seeking deeper, more integrative tools
Drawn to understanding the "why" behind their patterns and behaviors
Comfortable with poetic, symbolic, and creative approaches to healing
Ready to explore the spiritual and mystical dimensions of trauma recovery
Seeking to integrate different parts of themselves into a harmonious whole
Experiencing the impact of trauma through anxiety, depression, or life transitions
If you're in your 20s, 30s, or 40s and identify as an artist, intuitive, or sensitive soul, you'll find a uniquely supportive space here. My approach honors your emotional complexity and creative nature, offering healing that feels both sacred and practical.
The Invitation to Begin
Trauma therapy in my practice isn't about fixing what's broken—it's about remembering what's whole. It's about creating space for all parts of you to be witnessed, understood, and ultimately integrated into a more expansive sense of self.
Whether you're navigating the lingering effects of childhood wounds, processing more recent traumatic experiences, or simply feeling the weight of accumulated life stressors, I offer a gentle, curious, and deeply validating space for your healing journey.
Online Therapy for Anxiety for Life Transitions and Languishing
Many emotionally sensitive individuals seek Therapy for Anxiety during periods of transition or when feeling stuck in patterns of languishing. Whether you're navigating career changes, relationship shifts, creative blocks, or existential questions about purpose and meaning, anxiety often intensifies during these liminal spaces.
My specialized approach to anxiety during life transitions includes:
Understanding how change activates protective anxiety responses
Exploring parts that resist change versus parts ready for growth
Creating rituals and practices to honor endings and beginnings
Developing trust in uncertainty and the unknown
Transforming anxiety about the future into curiosity about possibilities
What to Expect from Online Therapy Sessions for Anxiety
Beginning therapy for anxiety with me starts with a consultation where we explore what support you're seeking, what you've already discovered on your healing journey, and whether we're a good therapeutic fit. During this initial conversation, you'll get a felt sense of what working together might feel like—the pace, the depth, the creative possibilities.
If we decide to work together, I conduct a comprehensive intake over our first three sessions, exploring different aspects of your life including family, cultural, social, medical, and mental health history. This helps me understand the full context of your anxiety and how different parts of your experience interconnect. Together, we'll identify three to five guiding goals for our Therapy for Anxiety work.
I typically meet with clients weekly at a scheduled time, providing consistency and continuity that supports deep work. Our online therapy format allows you to engage in this vulnerable work from the safety and comfort of your own space, whether you're in Sonoma County, Seattle, New York, or anywhere else you call home.
Your Unique Path to Anxiety Healing
Every person's relationship with anxiety is as unique as their fingerprint, shaped by individual history, sensitivity, creativity, and inner constellation of parts. In our work together, I honor this uniqueness by tailoring our approach to what resonates most deeply with your soul. There's no one-size-fits-all solution—only the path that feels authentic and sustainable for you.
I work with adults and young adults who are ready to move beyond surface-level anxiety management into profound, integrative healing. If you're someone who:
Craves understanding the deeper "why" behind anxiety
Values creative and expressive approaches to healing
Seeks to integrate different parts of yourself into wholeness
Wants therapy that honors your sensitivity and complexity
Is ready for gentle yet transformative inner work
Then this Therapy for Anxiety approach may resonate with you.
Begin Your Anxiety Healing Journey Today
If you're ready to transform your relationship with anxiety through creative, depth-oriented, and integrative therapy, I invite you to reach out. Together, we'll create a therapeutic space where anxiety becomes a teacher rather than a tormentor, where your sensitivity is honored as a gift, and where all parts of you are welcomed with curiosity and compassion.
Contact me today to schedule your consultation and discover how online Therapy for Anxiety can support your journey toward integration, healing, and authentic self-expression. Let's explore how we can work together to transform anxiety from an overwhelming force into a guide toward deeper self-understanding and wholeness.
