What is “trauma-informed?”

I believe suffering, struggle, and difficult times can be catalysts for profound transformation. My own journey of healing came when I began to explore the unaddressed trauma in my own story in the midst of a long and difficult season.

As a trauma-informed therapist, I approach each client with a basic assumption that what has brought them to therapy has been caused in part by unprocessed trauma. It’s the idea that unwanted behavior and thinking, difficulty in relationships, anxiety, addiction, etc. are a result of interruptions in a person’s sense of safety in the world, a sense of self as a creative agent in their life and in their community, and/or shame scripts set in motion by ruptures in attachment, abuse, grief, loss, betrayal (types of traumas). In short, trauma interrupts our capacity to love and be loved. 

Much of the work of healing from trauma involves identifying and deconstructing the internalized distortions about self and narrative, peeling back the layers of commitment and loyalty to these distortions, and integrating fragmented parts of self (mind, body, spirit) in order to reconstruct a truer sense of yourself, your story, and your agency in the world.

My work, as a trauma-informed therapist, is to come alongside you as a trusted witness, guide, and companion on your journey of bringing clarity out of confusion, chaos, and pain, of building a greater capacity for life-giving relationships, and to find more freedom to engage life authentically.

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