Trauma Therapy
Healing Through Connection: Therapy for Trauma, Attachment Wounds & Emotional Overwhelm
Do any of these feel familiar?
- Do you find it difficult to trust in relationships?
- Does navigating closeness feel like an emotional roller coaster?
- Are you exhausted from constantly anticipating the needs of others?
- Is it hard to make sense of your feelings when someone you care about disappoints you?
- Do your emotions sometimes feel too intense, too much, or too hard to handle on your own?
If so, you are not alone. These experiences often reflect earlier moments in life when your need for safety, attunement, or emotional support wasn’t fully met.
Understanding Trauma Through an AEDP Lens
Trauma is not only what happened—it’s what happened without enough support.
Trauma can arise from:
Single overwhelming events, such as:
- A sudden accident
- The unexpected death of a loved one
- Witnessing or experiencing violence
- Natural disasters
But trauma also comes from ongoing relational or environmental stress, including:
- Chronic emotional neglect
- Inconsistent or unpredictable caregiving
- Growing up with a parent preoccupied by their own unhealed trauma
- Feeling unseen, unheard, or unsafe
- Being praised for strength while vulnerable parts of you stayed hidden
Many of these experiences don’t leave visible wounds; instead, they leave implicit emotional echoes—the kinds of aches that show up as shame, self-protection, or aloneness later in life.
How We Adapted—And Why It Still Hurts
As children, we learn brilliant, creative strategies to survive and stay connected:
- Reading the room constantly
- Pleasing or caretaking
- Shutting down emotionally
- Staying hyper-independent
- Hiding our true needs to avoid conflict or criticism
These strategies were lifesaving in the past.
But in adulthood, they can blur your sense of self, complicate relationships, and make closeness feel dangerous or overwhelming.
The Lingering Effects of Trauma
Unprocessed trauma can lead to:
- Persistent emotional pain
- Intense or confusing relationship patterns
- Shame and self-criticism
- Fear of abandonment or engulfment
- Difficulty trusting yourself or others
- Symptoms of complex PTSD
- A sense of being “too much” or “not enough”
Even long after the original event—or the original relationship—your nervous system may still be working in survival mode.
An AEDP Approach: Healing Happens in Relationship
You don’t have to do this alone.
AEDP (Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy) is grounded in the belief that healing becomes possible when emotional experiences are met with attunement, compassion, and connection.
In our work together, we will:
Create a deeply safe, regulated relational space
Where your feelings can be explored without judgment or overwhelm.
Stay present with your emotional experience, moment by moment
Honoring both the protective parts of you and the vulnerable parts that long to be seen.
Undo aloneness
By meeting your experience with warmth, curiosity, and responsiveness—something many people did not receive when they needed it most.
Transform old patterns into new possibilities
As we access your innate resilience, clarity, and core sense of self.
What Therapy Feels Like
Therapy with an AEDP orientation is gentle, collaborative, and experiential. You don’t have to have the “right words.”
You don’t have to make sense of everything alone.
We slow down, notice what arises in your body and emotions, and support the experience of your feelings in a way that leads to relief, insight, and transformation.
Healing doesn’t come from analyzing pain—it comes from feeling supported while moving through what once felt unbearable.
Your Healing Is Possible
Within you is a deep, natural capacity for connection, vitality, and emotional ease. Together, we will help you reconnect with those parts—softly, safely, and at your pace.
If you’re ready to explore what healing could look like in your life, I’m here. You don’t have to navigate this alone anymore.