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My practice has four overlapping doors.
Many of my clients are high-capacity people who look functional from the outside while carrying far more than anyone sees. The survivor who explodes under pressure and keeps losing ground for it. The one who learned harm so early they find themselves repeating it with the people they love. The one whose diagnosis — borderline, OCD, dissociative identity disorder — stopped being information and started being a verdict. The one rebuilding from an oppressive religious system, dismissed as “rebellious.” All of these survivors are welcome here.
Some are in crisis. Some are rebuilding after crisis. Some are ready to write the next chapter. I take all of it just as seriously.
PTSD comes from a terrifying event — an assault, an accident, combat. Afterward, your mind and body keep reacting as if the danger is still happening. Complex trauma comes from harm that repeated over time, often in childhood or a situation you couldn't leave. It runs deeper, shaping how you see yourself, other people, and the world. Early abuse or neglect can affect how you handle stress, trust, and closeness for years — often in ways you'd never trace back to the cause.
Abuse isn't always physical. Coercive control is a pattern where one person slowly takes over another's life through isolation, monitoring, threats, or control of money and daily choices. Over time it can make you doubt your own memory and judgment, and lose track of who you are.
Spiritual abuse happens when religion or spiritual authority is used to control, shame, or frighten you — being silenced, threatened with God's punishment, or pressured into total obedience. For missionaries and missionary kids, it can also mean displacement, repeated goodbyes, reentry struggles, and questions of identity and faith that don't settle neatly anywhere. Healing means untangling your faith from the harm done in its name, on your terms.
Our first relationships teach us what to expect from other people. When those early bonds were unsafe, unpredictable, or came with conditions, the effects can last — often showing up as trouble trusting, fear of closeness, or losing yourself in relationships.
You spend your days listening, assessing, attuning, containing, and caring. That doesn't mean you have a place where your own pain is held. Therapists often know how to explain their patterns before they know how to feel them. You may be insightful, capable, and clinically skilled while still carrying old trauma, burnout, compassion fatigue, spiritual wounds, or the quiet exhaustion of being the steady one. Here, you don't have to perform competence. You can be a person.
Blocks, slumps, and performance anxiety usually aren't about talent or effort. More often something underneath is interfering — stress, perfectionism, old criticism, fear of failure, burnout, or an old wound the work is quietly touching. Sometimes the page goes quiet because something in you is afraid to be seen. I work with writers, artists, athletes, and performers to find what's in the way and get you back to your work.
Who I see: adults (18+), teens 14 and older by referral, and family counseling when all participants are 16 or older.
Most of our work happens in conversation. Within that, I draw from several approaches depending on what you need and where you are. No single method works for every person or every season of healing.
A brain-body therapy similar to EMDR, used to reach trauma stored in the body. Where you look affects how you feel, so by finding certain points in your field of vision, we can get to what talk therapy often can't. You don't have to put something into words for it to start to heal.
Trauma lives in the body and nervous system, not just the mind. This work pays attention to what your body is holding — the tension, the bracing, the shutdown — not only what you can explain in words.
The mind naturally organizes itself into distinct parts, each with its own perspective and role. It's why you can feel two opposite things at once. After painful experiences, some parts take on extreme or rigid roles, and this approach works with them directly.
A structured, evidence-based therapy that teaches practical skills for handling intense emotions, getting through crisis without making things worse, and staying steady in relationships. It balances accepting yourself as you are with working toward real change.
For clients who want it, your faith becomes part of the clinical work. We can draw on prayer, scripture, and your spiritual practices as real sources of meaning, coping, and resilience, integrated with the same evidence-based methods used in the rest of our work. Offered at your request and always at your pace.
Send a message or book a free 15-minute consultation. We'll talk about what's bringing you in.
We get to know each other, clarify your goals, and start mapping a path that feels right.
Regular sessions — weekly or as needed — with real tools and steady support along the way.
$150 / 50 min
Weekly or as-needed therapy in a steady, ongoing format.
$200 / hour
Focused, accelerated work for deeper progress. Each intensive runs 2 days, 6 hours per day.
Insurance: I don't accept insurance directly, but I provide superbills you can submit to your insurer for possible out-of-network reimbursement.
You don't have to have it figured out to reach out.
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