Approaches to Therapy Treatment
Coherence TherapyAccelerated Resolution TherapyDialectical Behavioral TherapyParts WorkCoherence Therapy
Our brains are incredibly adaptive and predictive. When we've experienced trauma, chronic stress, or emotionally painful experiences, we develop ways of thinking, feeling, and responding that help us survive. Those responses make perfect sense in the context of what you've lived through, and yet they may no longer fit your life today.
In Coherence Therapy, we gently explore the emotional learnings and beliefs that are keeping these patterns in place. Rather than trying to force change through willpower or fighting to cope better, we work with your brain's natural ability to update old emotional learnings when they no longer reflect your current reality. This happens through a scientific process called memory reconsolidation. As those deeper learnings shift, transformation can occur and lasting change can happen naturally.
This approach is collaborative, compassionate, and deeply respectful of your experience. There is no assumption that you're flawed or that you need to be fixed. Instead, we work together to understand the wisdom behind your responses, honor how they've helped you survive, and create space for new ways of feeling, relating, and living.
Accelerated Resolution Therapy
Traumatic experiences can leave lasting emotional and physical imprints, even long after the event is over. You may find yourself replaying painful memories, feeling constantly on edge, avoiding certain situations, or reacting in ways that feel out of your control. While these responses are painful, they are your brain's way of trying to protect you.
Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART) is a gentle, evidence-based approach that helps your brain process distressing memories so they no longer have the same emotional intensity. ART was born out of a similar technique called Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) yet streamlined for more rapid relief. It is based in the neurological process of memory reconsolidation.
During an ART session, you remain in control the entire time. Using guided eye movements and visualization techniques, ART allows many people to find relief without having to describe every detail of what happened or relive the trauma. Together, we'll work at a pace that feels safe while helping your brain process difficult experiences in a new way. Although you may still remember what happened, you may notice that the memories lack their prior intense charge.
ART can be helpful for people struggling with trauma, anxiety, grief, difficult life experiences, or memories that continue to feel emotionally overwhelming. Because the brain has a remarkable capacity to heal, meaningful change can sometimes happen more quickly than people expect.
Dialectical Behavioral Therapy
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is an evidence-based approach that helps you build practical skills to navigate life's challenges with greater confidence and balance. The word dialectical means holding two truths at the same time: you can accept yourself exactly as you are while also working toward meaningful change.
DBT focuses on four key areas: mindfulness, emotional regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness. Together, these skills can help you better understand your emotions, cope with difficult moments without becoming overwhelmed, communicate your needs more effectively, and develop healthier, more fulfilling relationships.
In therapy, we work together to understand your experiences with compassion while learning tools you can use in everyday life. Whether you're coping with the effects of trauma, anxiety, depression, relationship difficulties, or intense emotions, DBT offers practical strategies that support healing, resilience, and lasting growth.
Parts Work
Parts work is informed by an Internal Family System (IFS) and Structural Dissociation approach which understands that we all have different "parts" of ourselves that developed over time to help us cope with life's experiences. Some parts work hard to protect us from pain, others carry the wounds of past experiences, and still others help us navigate our daily lives.
Rather than trying to silence or get rid of these parts, we approach them with curiosity, compassion, and respect. As we begin to understand their roles and the experiences that shaped them, they often become less burdened and no longer need to work so hard to keep you safe.
This gentle, collaborative approach helps you develop a deeper connection with yourself, heal emotional wounds, and respond to life's challenges from a place of greater calm, confidence, and self-compassion.
Areas of Treatment
Complex TraumaNot all trauma comes from a single event. Sometimes it develops over months or years through repeated experiences that leave us feeling unsafe, unseen, emotionally overwhelmed, or alone. This is referred to as complex trauma, and it can shape the way we see ourselves, relate to others, and move through the world long after the original experiences have passed.
Complex trauma may result from childhood emotional neglect, emotional invalidation, abuse, chronic criticism, family conflict, relationship trauma, or other experiences where your emotional or physical sense of safety was repeatedly disrupted. Even if your experiences don't seem "bad enough" compared to someone else's, their impact on your nervous system and emotional well-being is real.
The effects of complex trauma can show up in many ways. You might struggle with anxiety, perfectionism, people-pleasing, over-functioning, difficulty trusting others, avoiding relationships, feeling emotionally numb, having low self-worth, chronic shame, or a persistent sense that you're never quite enough. You may find yourself repeating patterns that no longer serve you, even when you understand them intellectually.
Healing from complex trauma is about understanding how your experiences shaped you, reconnecting with your inner strengths, and helping your nervous system discover that safety, connection, and peace are possible again.
Narcissistic AbuseIf you've experienced narcissistic abuse, you may find yourself constantly second-guessing yourself or your reality, walking on eggshells, people-pleasing, struggling to trust yourself, or feeling responsible for other people's emotions. You may have learned to silence your own needs to avoid conflict or maintain the relationship. Whether the relationship was with a partner, parent, family member, friend, supervisor, or another important person in your life, these experiences can slowly erode your sense of self, leaving you questioning your perceptions and your worth.
Together, we'll explore the beliefs, emotional patterns, and protective strategies that developed as you navigated those relationships. We'll work to rebuild trust in yourself, strengthen healthy boundaries, process the emotional pain you've carried, and reconnect with the parts of you that may have been overlooked or diminished.
Recovery is about rediscovering your own voice, learning to feel safe in your own mind and body, and creating relationships that are grounded in mutual respect, authenticity, and care.
PTSDExperiencing a traumatic event can change the way your brain and body respond to the world. Even after the danger has passed, you may continue to feel as though you're stuck in survival mode. Memories may intrude unexpectedly, certain places or situations may feel impossible to face, or your nervous system may remain on constant alert, making it difficult to relax, trust, or feel safe.
PTSD can develop after experiencing or witnessing events that are deeply frightening, overwhelming, or life-threatening. Symptoms may include intrusive memories or nightmares, heightened anxiety, emotional numbness, irritability, difficulty sleeping, feeling easily startled, or avoiding reminders of what happened.
Although PTSD can feel isolating, healing is possible. Through therapy, we can gently process traumatic memories, reduce the emotional intensity they carry, and help your nervous system recognize that the danger is no longer present.
Anxiety and DepressionAnxiety and depression can make even the simplest parts of life feel difficult. You may find yourself constantly worrying, feeling emotionally drained, struggling to enjoy things you once loved, or carrying a sense of heaviness that never seems to lift. Some days it may feel like you're simply surviving rather than truly living.
These experiences can affect every part of your life—your relationships, work, sleep, self-confidence, and overall sense of well-being. You may wonder why you feel this way or become frustrated that you can't simply "think your way out of it."
While anxiety and depression can have many contributing factors, they are often connected to the ways our minds and bodies have adapted to stress, loss, trauma, or difficult life experiences. Your symptoms are often telling an important story about what you've been through and what your nervous system has learned.
Rather than seeing these struggles as something wrong with you, we will approach them with curiosity and compassion. In therapy, we'll work together to understand the underlying patterns that are keeping you stuck while also developing practical tools to help you feel more grounded, connected, and resilient.
Sometimes one hour isn't enough.
Trauma Healing Intensives offer extended sessions designed for deeper exploration and making meaningful progress in a shorter period of time.