Couples, Trauma, & Sex Therapy

Heal trauma, rebuild intimacy, and create the relationships you want.

Trauma Therapy & EMDR for Lasting Healing

Trauma can shape how we think, feel, and react long after the difficult experience is over. Whether the impact shows up as anxiety, emotional overwhelm, low self-esteem, shutdown, physical symptoms, or relationship patterns that feel hard to break, you don’t have to navigate it alone.

Trauma Therapy

  • Understand how past relationships and experiences shape your reactions today, so you can navigate connection, boundaries, and communication.

  • Build tools for managing anxiety, intrusive thoughts, and big emotions.

  • Strengthen emotional regulation skills so you feel less overwhelmed and more steady in your daily life.

EMDR

EMDR is a neuroscience-based therapy designed to help the brain process and release trauma that has become “stuck.” When overwhelming events occur, the brain doesn’t always file them away like it would with other experiences. EMDR uses bilateral stimulation to help the brain reprocess these memories, reduce emotional intensity, and shift the negative beliefs tied to them.

EMDR sessions are offered in both 50-minute and 90-minute formats with extended sessions allowing more space for deeper processing and integration when needed.

Couples Therapy Sessions

Whether you’re stuck in exhausting conflict, navigating deep hurt, or unsure if your relationship can continue, you don’t have to figure it out alone. I work with:

  • LGBTQIA+ partnerships

  • Sex Therapy

  • Couples on the brink of separation

  • High-conflict couples

  • Relationships impacted by trauma or painful relational patterns

A Trauma-Informed, Relational Approach

Your personal history including trauma, attachment wounds, or earlier relationship experiences shapes how you communicate, how you argue, how you protect yourself, and how you reach for your partner. Together, we’ll make sense of these deeper layers so you can change the patterns that keep you stuck.

Therapy Approaches You Can Actually Understand

I draw from several research-backed methods:

  • Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT): Helps you understand the emotional cycles you get stuck in and teaches you how to turn toward each other instead of pulling away.

  • Internal Family Systems (IFS): Helps you recognize the “parts” of yourself that get reactive, shut down, or overwhelmed — and learn how to stay connected even during conflict.

  • Gottman-informed tools: Practical, straightforward skills for communication, conflict management, and rebuilding trust.

  • Relational Life Therapy: Honest, direct guidance to shift long-standing patterns and help both partners show up with clarity, accountability, and care.

Sex Therapy

When intimacy becomes difficult because of trauma, anxiety, mismatched needs, pain, or past experiences that make physical closeness feel overwhelming or unsafe, therapy can help.

  • Understanding the roots of fear, shutdown, or disconnection

  • Slowing down physical and emotional intimacy so it feels grounded for both partners

  • Helping partners communicate needs and boundaries without shame