Therapy Services
Trauma, Grief + Bereavement, & Addiction Recovery
I work with trauma, grief, and addiction, both individually and where they overlap.
These experiences are often deeply connected. Trauma can live in the body long after an event is over. Grief can reshape your world in ways you never expected. Addiction can begin as relief and slowly become something that limits your life. Often, one touches the other.
Each can affect you emotionally, physically, relationally, and spiritually. They can alter how safe the present feels, how hopeful the future seems, and how connected you feel to yourself and others.
Healing is not about erasing what happened.
It is about learning how to live here and now, with more presence, choice, and steadiness.
Below are the areas I specialize in.
Trauma Recovery
Trauma changes how you experience the world. Not just emotionally, but physically, relationally, and spiritually.
It can leave you feeling as though the past is still happening now. As if your body never got the message that you survived.
You may notice yourself reacting instead of choosing. Overworking. Over-caretaking. Overcommitting. Trying to control what feels unsteady, even when you are exhausted.
Trauma often disrupts your relationship with your body. You may feel disconnected from physical cues like hunger, rest, or fatigue. Emotionally, you might feel on edge or numb. Relationships can feel hard to navigate, and boundaries unclear. These are adaptations that once helped you survive.
I work with trauma as both a body experience and a meaning-making one.
We pay attention to what is happening in the present moment.
In your body.
In your relationships.
In the ways you respond under stress.
Together, we work to rebuild communication between your mind and body. So that your nervous system can recognize that what happened is over, even if its effects remain.
Trauma does not get the final word
Trauma may have shaped how you learned to move through the world.
But it does not define who you are.
Recovery is about re-orienting.
From what happened, to what is happening now.
From reaction, to choice.
From survival, to presence.
Grief, Mourning, & Bereavement
Grief does not move in straight lines. There are no stages to complete, no timelines to meet, no right way to carry loss.
Grief can arrive all at once or unfold slowly. It can be layered, complicated, and intertwined with trauma, before, during, or long after a loss. It may surface quietly, or it may intrude without warning. Some days it feels consuming… other days it feels distant, unfamiliar, or strangely absent.
Grief work is about tending to what has been lost while learning how to live within what remains.
In therapy, grief recovery is a process of gently holding the past in the present, making space for memory, meaning, and mourning, while slowly allowing yourself to imagine a future that has been irrevocably changed by loss. A future that looks different, but is still worthy of care and attention.
This space allows anger, relief, guilt, gratitude, shame, numbness, love, and longing to coexist without judgment. Together, we establish rhythms of self-care, remembrance, and meaning-making at a pace that honors both your loss and your capacity.
I work with:
Sudden or unexpected loss
Complicated relationships with the deceased
Anticipatory grief and terminal illness
Relationship or life season endings
Loss of identity, health, or ability
Trauma intertwined with bereavement
Disenfranchised grief, including suicide, overdose, estrangement, abortion, incarceration, deportation, and other unrecognized losses
Grief asks something honest of us.
Not resolution. Presence.
Not answers. Care for the life that is still unfolding.
If you are carrying loss and looking for a place to tend to it, you can begin here.
Addiction Recovery
Addiction is not a moral failure. It is not a lack of willpower, faith, or character. More often, it is a sign that something in you has been trying very hard to survive.
For many people, substances once served a purpose. They soothed pain, quieted anxiety, softened loneliness, or created relief when nothing else felt available. For a time, they worked. And then, gradually or suddenly, the cost began to outweigh the comfort.
In therapy, addiction is approached with curiosity rather than judgment. The focus is on impact – how your substance use has affected your body, relationships, work, and inner life.
Substance use and mental health challenges often go hand in hand. I specialize in treating co-occurring (dual diagnosis) disorders, addressing both the substance use and underlying mental health concerns. I can also work within the 12 step model and encourage other community support resources.
You may benefit from working with me if:
You are currently in an IOP and need outside mental health support
You are transitioning out of treatment and want continued care
You have established sobriety and are seeking continued addiction recovery support and mental health care
You are a healthcare professional seeking consultation with a substance use disorder professional (SUDP) for an addiction recovery lens
Support for Loved Ones of Those with Addiction
If you come from a family where addiction was present, or you are in a relationship with someone in active addiction or with a history of addiction, this space is for you.
Our work focuses on supporting you, your clarity, your boundaries, your grief, your anger, your care for yourself. Together, we explore communication patterns, reduce enabling dynamics, and help you move toward steadiness and choice rather than reactivity.
If it’s a good fit for you, I can incorporate the Community Reinforcement and Family Training (CRAFT) model, an evidence-based approach that helps loved ones improve communication, reduce enabling patterns, and increase the likelihood of treatment engagement, while caring for themselves in the process.
You deserve support, too.
Lifespan Integration
Lifespan Integration is a gentle, body-based therapy that supports the mind and nervous system in recognizing that the past is over, even when parts of you still feel caught there. It works by helping your body-mind integrate memories across your timeline so that earlier experiences no longer carry the same intensity in the present.
Rather than reliving events, Lifespan Integration focuses on settling them. On allowing your system to update. On helping you feel more here and now.
Lifespan Integration can be offered as a stand-alone service or woven into our ongoing narrative therapy work.
You can learn more about the model here:
https://lifespanintegration.com/what-is-lifespan-integration/
This approach can be especially supportive if you are:
Healing from a single traumatic event (such as a traumatic pregnancy or childbirth experience, car accident, or medical event)
Processing a significant relationship or attachment rupture
Wanting to settle the impact of past experiences so you can feel more present
Seeking a higher perspective on your life so far, a thoughtful life review or inventory
As with all of my work, Lifespan Integration also supports concerns related to relationship and boundary struggles, patterns of caretaking or over-responsibility, trauma and nervous system regulation, grief and anger, addiction cycles, family-of-origin wounds, spiritual harm, eating disorders, burnout, and identity development.
The goal is to help your body carry your history differently, with more steadiness, autonomy, and connection to your inner compass.
My work is here to support you through life’s challenges, helping you feel more grounded, connected, and able to respond to yourself and your relationships with care and clarity.
All services also support challenges related to:
Intersections of faith, including progressive and conservative Christian views and values
Relationship struggles, boundaries, and family-of-origin patterns
Caretaking, control, over-responsibility, and reclaiming choice and autonomy
Speaking honestly about your needs and limits
Trauma and nervous system regulation, including learning to slow down and feel safer in your body
Grief, anger, loss, and reality acceptance
Reconnecting with your values, intuition, and inner compass
Tending to younger parts of yourself and healing past survival patterns
Preparing for stress points such as grief anniversaries, holidays, or addiction cycles
Addiction, behavioral patterns, cravings, and relapse prevention
Eating disorders and disordered eating
Managing stress, burnout, secondary trauma, and cultivating grounded coping skills
Mindfulness, embodied awareness, and DBT-informed practices