Services Offered

Couples &
Trauma Therapy

Heal trauma, rebuild intimacy, and create the relationship you’ve been longing for. Let’s create meaningful change together.

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

Trauma work understand their inner world, strengthen emotional resilience, and shift long-standing patterns

  • Explore the different “parts” of you that show up during stress or conflict — the protector, the critic, the overwhelmed part — and help them feel calmer and less reactive.

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

  • Gently face fears or situations you’ve been avoiding, so they lose their intensity and you regain confidence and control.

  • Build practical tools for managing anxiety, intrusive thoughts, and big emotions in real time.

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

  • Work through intimacy or sexual concerns tied to trauma or anxiety, creating safety and reconnection at a pace that honors your body and nervous system.

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 gentle bilateral stimulation to help the brain reprocess these memories, reduce emotional intensity, and shift the negative beliefs tied to them.

Throughout EMDR sessions, you’re fully awake, grounded, and in control. We stay connected and communicate the entire time, working with only what feels manageable for you.

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.

Together, we choose the approach that fits you.

Couples Therapy Sessions

Whether you’re feeling worlds apart, 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

  • Couples on the brink of separation

  • High-conflict couples

  • Partners who feel emotionally or physically disconnected

  • Relationships impacted by trauma or painful relational patterns

  • Couples struggling with intimacy impacted by trauma or anxiety

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 powerful, research-backed methods, explained in everyday language:

  • 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 for Trauma and Anxiety

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

  • Understanding the roots of fear, shutdown, or avoidance

  • Rebuilding safety and trust within the relationship

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

  • Helping partners communicate needs and boundaries without shame

This isn’t performance-based sex therapy. This approach is about truly healing, safety, and reconnecting with your partner at your pace.

You Don’t Have to Do This Alone

Healing a relationship takes courage and support. 90-minute sessions create the time and safety you need to truly be seen, hear each other differently, and begin rebuilding a relationship that feels secure, connected.

If you’re ready to begin, I’m here.