Please note: I am not able to accept new clients at this time.

You’re overwhelmed. Anxious and stressed. Feeling down on yourself and having a hard time seeing the good things in life.

You put on a brave face, and most people around you don’t know that your inner world feels like chaos a lot of the time. You’re shocked when people around you think you’ve got it all together, and at the same time spend a lot to time keeping up the facade you show to others that says you're "okay." You worry about what others might think of you and often wonder if you’re “enough” – at work, for friends, romantic partners, and family members. You’re quick to give to others and like to avoid conflict, even if that means burying your own needs very deeply. You like things to be “just so” and often strive for perfection –  but these expectations often leave you feeling really stressed, exhausted, disconnected from others, and down on yourself. When things finally do go the right way, you have a hard time trusting it and find yourself looking for the other shoe to drop.

Family is very important to you, but you often experience an emotional spiral in the days after interactions with certain family members, especially ones that caused you significant pain in the past. It’s hard to think on those troubling memories, and you have learned to carefully avoid them, but they crop up unexpectedly in your life no matter how you try to leave them in the past, and interfere with your present well-being. You’re hard on yourself and wonder why you can’t just “let it go.” 

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If this sounds similar to your experience, we're likely to be a great fit in working together. I work primarily with women around anxiety, depression, challenging family dynamics, grief and loss, and trauma.

Most of the symptoms people feel can be viewed through a "trauma" lens - that means that we can usually identify certain experiences in your life that are fueling your emotional experience now. How we think and feel about these experiences shape the way we see the world, ourselves, and our relationships, and greatly impact what we notice (or don't notice) and the behaviors we choose. Think of it as our past experiences "priming" us to see certain things over others - unfortunately, that priming often makes us notice things that keep us stuck in the same old patterns that aren't working.

Working through those past experiences is so important to you moving forward and getting unstuck. That's why in therapy we collaborate to work through the trauma in your past - whether that's childhood trauma or events that occurred in adulthood - as well as focus on building what you want for the future.

A word on "trauma": Sometimes people hear the word "trauma" and think "that's not me" - but trauma falls on a spectrum from a capital "T" to a lowercase "t." Trauma can be growing up with (and still dealing with now) highly critical parents with unrealistic expectations. Trauma can be experiencing, past or present, your parent's divorce or separation. It can be a memory from your school days. It can be emotional, physical or sexual abuse. It can be memories of a parent leaving when you were a kid. It can be not feeling like a priority to the people you love most. Trauma can be so many things - don't let the label scare you away from getting your work done and living the life you want to live.

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Ready to make an appointment or would like to schedule a consult call? Send me an email or give me call to get started!

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