Specialties
Betrayal trauma is the work I take on most deliberately, alongside perfectionism, divorce care, binge eating and anxiety. Trauma is the thread running under all of it.
What Feels Closest?
Choose a concern for a private, immediate starting point. Nothing is saved.
When trust has been broken, steadiness comes before big decisions. There is room here for the checking, anger, grief, and uncertainty.
Core Focus Areas
Each path is personal. Open any card to see a few experiences that may feel familiar.
Binge eating is rarely about willpower and often about relief. I work from the Intuitive Eating Model: no moralizing about food, no disguised pursuit of thinness, and no new set of rules to fail. The aim is to rebuild trust and make peace with food and your body.
Family of origin, sexual, relational, violence, veterans, death. Panic disorder, social.
Anxiety is an alarm system doing its job too well. We work on both ends: the physiology, so your body can come down from high alert, and the thinking, so the catastrophic forecast loses some of its authority. Practical, repeatable, and something you keep after therapy ends.
Discovering an affair, hidden spending, or a long-running secret does something specific to the nervous system: it turns the person you relied on into the source of the danger. We slow down the checking, the replaying and the sleeplessness first, then work on what you want to decide, whether that is repair or a clear-eyed exit.
Faith can be questioned, pose your "why God?" doubts, healing from anger/hurt with themes like releasing to God, forgiveness, or reconciliation
From the outside it can look like discipline or high performance. From the inside it is a standard that moves every time you reach it. Present over Perfect means protecting what you value about drive while loosening low self-esteem and the fear that you are only as worthy as your last result.
Expectations of performance and of your body, Anxiety builds. Pressure mounts. When drive becomes tied to worth, and rest starts to feel like failure. Find peace again.
Learn MoreHow the Trauma Work Is Done
Trauma and PTSD are the primary specialty here. This is the method behind that, described in five minutes rather than in clinical shorthand.
Broader Trauma Work
PTSD is my primary specialty, and it shows up wearing a lot of different clothes: as anger, as numbness, as a drink every night, as never being able to sit still. These are the other concerns I regularly see, most of them tangled up with the same root.
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Most people do not arrive with a tidy label, and you do not need one. Tell me what has been hardest lately and we will work out together whether this is the right place for it.
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