Trauma & Persistent Anxiety
Hope is rebellion.
When you're in despair, you need someone to hold hope for you for a little while. That's what I'm here for — while you find your way back to your own.
WHO IS THIS FOR. . .
What’s Personal
You might be carrying something specific — a relationship that broke you open, a childhood that left you without the tools to trust yourself or anyone else, a body that's been in survival mode so long it forgot there's another way to be.
Anxiety that won't quit. A sense that something is always about to go wrong. Difficulty trusting your own instincts, or letting people close enough to matter.
What’s Collective
Or you're exhausted by something bigger and less personal: the state of the world. Economic drudgery. Wars you didn't start. A climate in crisis. The particular loneliness of being asked to perform wellness while the conditions for it are collapsing around you.
That's not pathology. That's a rational response to genuinely difficult conditions — and it still lives in your body, and it still deserves care.
What the work is
We don't just talk about it. We move through it.
The work is somatic and experiential — which means we slow down and feel what's actually happening, rather than narrating it from a safe distance. We find where it lives in your body. We get curious about the parts of you that developed to keep you safe and are now running the show in ways that cost you.
This isn't about fixing you or quieting your nervous system into compliance. It's about understanding what those parts are protecting — and giving them what they actually need.
“She helped me stick with the uncomfortable emotions I was desperately trying to suppress and gave me tools to move through them.”
What to expect in session
Slow down
I'll prompt you to pause, feel into your body, and notice what's true — not just what your mind is saying about it.
Go Sideways
I ask questions that open things up rather than narrow them down. Weird, intentional, and usually more useful than direct ones.
Stay Safe
If things get intense, we ground before going further. You won't be left out in the open.
You don't need to have it figured out
You don't need to know whether what you're experiencing is "trauma" or "just anxiety" or "just the world being terrible." We'll figure that out together. What matters is that something feels stuck, heavy, or like it's running you — and some part of you is ready to look at it.
You also don't need to arrive hopeful. I'll hold that part for a while.
Ready to start, or just curious whether this is the right fit? Either is enough of a reason to reach out.