Trauma Therapist Specializing in Neurodivergence, LGBTQ+, & Couples/Relational Work
Registered Associate Marriage & Family Therapist #124796
Supervised by Dr. Mary M. Read, Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist #25112
Employed by B Messy Therapy: A Marriage & Family Therapy Corporation

Individuals & Trauma
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For those ready to stop surviving on autopilot and start understanding the story beneath the surface.
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Something brought you here. Maybe you can name it clearly —a relationship that fell apart, a childhood you're still recovering from, a body that never quite feels safe. Or maybe it's vaguer than that: a persistent heaviness, a pattern you keep repeating, a version of yourself you've lost touch with. Either way, you don't need to arrive with the right words. You just need to arrive.
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This space may be right for you if you're:
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Carrying relational or sexual trauma —recent or long-buried
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Navigating anxiety, depression, or emotional dysregulation that feels bigger than you can manage alone
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Noticing patterns in relationships, work, or self-worth that you can't seem to break
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Processing grief, loss, or a major life transition
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Exploring your identity —cultural, racial, gender, sexual, or neurodivergent
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Feeling disconnected from your body, your emotions, or your sense of self
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Dealing with the weight of intergenerational or ancestral trauma
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Exhausted from masking, performing, or holding it all together for everyone else
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How we work:
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Healing isn't linear, and we won't pretend it is. Our work together is paced by you and there's no rushing toward an outcome and no checklist to complete.
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I work from a trauma-informed, somatic, and depth-oriented lens. That means we pay attention not just to your thoughts and story, but to your body, your nervous system, and the deeper layers underneath. What is safety for you? Where did these patterns begin? What did they protect you from? What are they costing you now?
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We'll also look honestly at the larger forces that have shaped you —family systems, cultural expectations, intergenerational wounds, the very real impact of systemic marginalization. Your struggles don't exist in a vacuum. Understanding the soil you grew in is part of understanding yourself.
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This isn't about fixing you. You are not broken! It's about getting curious together about what got layered over your authentic self, and slowly, carefully, making room for more of that self to emerge.
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On trauma specifically:
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Trauma isn't just what happened to you. It's what happened inside you in response —the ways your nervous system adapted to keep you safe when safety wasn't available.
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Those adaptations made sense then. They may be getting in your way now.
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Whether your trauma is a single identifiable event or a long accumulation of smaller ruptures — relational betrayal, chronic invalidation, growing up in a body or identity that wasn't affirmed — it deserves to be taken seriously. Not minimized, not rushed, not treated as something to "get over."
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We'll move at the pace of trust.
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A note on my approach:
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I draw from person-centered, humanistic, and attachment-based foundations, with threads of Internal Family Systems (IFS/parts work), Emotion-Focused Therapy, and somatic embodiment practices. I'm currently completing Linda Thai's Certificate in Somatic Embodiment & Regulation Strategies (Levels 1, 2 & 3).
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I also bring my own lived experience —as a neurodivergent, bisexual, biracial woman who has done her own depth work. I don't ask you to go anywhere I haven't been willing to go myself.
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You are more than your symptoms, your diagnoses, your worst moments, and your hardest years. This space is for all of it —the parts you're proud of and the parts you've kept hidden. All of it is welcome here.
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50 min | $185
