Some things stay with you longer than they should have had to.
Trauma does not always look like what you think it does.
Sometimes it looks like someone who functions well and keeps everyone around them feeling steady, while having no idea why certain moments or silences pull them somewhere they cannot explain. Something hard happened, and it left something in you that did not have a place to land. That is what this work is for.
THIS PAGE IS FOR YOU IF...
You find yourself reacting to something small and then feeling confused, or ashamed, by the size of your reaction
You are good at pushing through, but there are things you avoid and stories you do not tell
You feel fine most of the time, and then something small, a smell, a tone of voice, pulls you somewhere else entirely
You have learned not to need too much from people. Something taught you that needing was not safe.
You describe your past as "it wasn't that bad" or "other people had it worse," and you use that framing to close the door before you have looked inside
You are carrying something you have never said out loud because you have never found the room that felt safe enough to say it in
HOW I WORK WITH TRAUMA & PTSD
Trauma work here focuses on what an experience left in you, the meanings it made, the conclusions your nervous system drew. One of the primary approaches I use is Cognitive Processing Therapy, a structured, evidence-based method that works with the thoughts and meanings trauma left behind without requiring you to replay the memory itself.
I also works with what lives in the body: the tension and the shutdown, the ways your nervous system learned to protect you even when the threat is long past. That work is practical and collaborative.
I haves worked with trauma across every stage of life, with children navigating crisis in under-resourced schools and with adults processing what they survived after Harvey and the winter storms, and with people with people in eating disorder recovery who are only beginning to name what the disorder was protecting.
I have worked with trauma that came in loudly and trauma that a person could barely name. I meet you where you are.
A NOTE ON CULTURAL AND INTERGENERATIONAL TRAUMA
Some of what you carry did not start with you. It started with people who loved you but did not have language for what they had been through, or who did not have the safety to speak it. In many Latine families, and in many families shaped by migration and survival, the instruction was to keep moving. To be strong. To not bring things up. That silence was something you absorbed, and it lives somewhere in you now.
There is a dicho, a Spanish saying: Lo que no se nombra, no desaparece. What is not named does not disappear. For many clients, this work is part of how the healing actually reaches the places where the wound originally formed.