Trauma-Focused Therapy

Online (Ny/NJ) & In-person in new Jersey

It’s never too long ago to matter or too late to change.

When you have encountered difficult experiences it can lead to problems with regulating emotions and effective coping.  These problems can exist even if you are “functioning” quite highly. You may be adept at hiding your pain because you learned to do so early and often; this does not mean it does not deserve to be addressed.

Maybe you’re noticing:

  • Intrusive symptoms, such as flashbacks, memories, or nightmares

  • Hypervigilence, muscle tightness or tension, an easy startle response

  • Despite functioning well, even great, at work or school, feeling a sense of emptiness or numbness

  • Symptoms of dissociation—feeling separate from oneself, others, or the world, or losing chunks of time, or feeling that you are not in control of your actions at all times

  • Extremes of “too much” or “too little” — feeling too much or not at all

Working within this lens can be helpful to restore a sense of safety, and move toward a greater sense of agency and control.

Types of trauma I assess and treat:

  • Single incident trauma (e.g., assault, car accident, etc)

  • Acute stress, or recent traumatic events

  • Developmental or “complex” trauma

  • Early or relational trauma

  • PTSD

  • Dissociation or dissociative disorders

trauma-focused therapy Can help you:

  • Reestablish (or create) a sense of safety in the world

  • Move past reoccurring obstacles or triggers, for good.

  • Improve your ability to assess and maintain healthy relationships

  • Feel a sense of agency and control over your life

  • Put the pieces together and connect the dots from past to present in a way that deeply validates, rather than invalidates, your experience

  • Stay present, eliminate the need to “numb out,” or steer clear of certain situations because they are too distressing.

  • Increase (or create) capacity for joy and pleasure

Trauma therapy tends to work more from the “bottom-up,” where establishing a sense of emotional and physical safety is top priority. Then, we move on to using elements of EMDR, talk-therapy, “parts-work,” and somatic/body-based approaches to help you actively move past difficult experiences.

Learn more about EMDR here.

Freedom from your past is possible.

I’M HERE TO HELP you discover that.