Abuse and neglect often leave invisible wounds. Narcissistic abuse can involve cycles of manipulation, invalidation, coercive control, and inconsistent care that leave you questioning your reality, mistrusting your instincts, or suppressing parts of yourself to preserve the relationship. Shame-based beliefs may remain long after the relationship ends, leaving you disconnected from who you once were and uncertain of your own needs, perceptions, and worth.
When these experiences are repeated or occur within formative relationships, they can contribute to complex trauma. Over time, this repetitive wounding can shape how you see yourself, other people, and the world around you, as though you are looking through a cracked pane of glass that distorts what feels safe. You may carry deep rooted beliefs that your needs are too much, emotions are unsafe, and that connection must be earned through self-abandonment. Hypervigilance, fear, rage, emotional disconnection, people-pleasing, difficulty setting boundaries, and even feeling “crazy” are protective responses developed in environments where safety and connection were unpredictable, withheld, or met with punishment and shame.
Spiritual abuse
Spiritual abuse can create additional layers of fear, shame, isolation, and self-doubt when beliefs and religious authority are used to control, silence, threaten, or justify harm. These experiences can undermine identity, belonging, and trust. Recovery may include grieving what you believed to be true and separating personal faith or values from the messages imposed by those who weaponized them.
Healing and recovery
Healing involves more than understanding what happened. It requires helping your nervous system experience safety again, recognizing protective patterns with compassion, rebuilding trust in yourself, and creating relationships in which you no longer have to question your worth or your reality. My approach integrates trauma-informed care, attachment theory, and treatments such as EMDR and memory reconsolidation.
Adults · Attachment-focused · Psychodynamic · Whole-person care
Individual Therapy
Understanding where you feel stuck, and what those patterns once protected.
Are you finding yourself struggling in your relationships or questioning your purpose, despite functioning well enough on the outside? You may feel stuck in familiar patterns, and find yourself attempting to suppress them or overcome them without recognizing the wisdom they hold. Often, these patterns began as meaningful adaptations to earlier experiences, even when they feel restricting in present-day.
My individual work is person-centered, attachment-based, and psychodynamic. This involves taking the time to understand who you are, how your experiences have shaped you, and discovering what meaningful change looks like in your life. We explore the relationship between the past and present, while also staying attuned to what emerges in the here-and-now.
I approach this work with warmth, curiosity, and collaboration. Depending on your needs, I may integrate parts work, somatic awareness, EMDR, and practical CBT strategies. I work primarily with adults healing from complex and relational trauma, including narcissistic and spiritual abuse.
These experiences may surface as anxiety, depression, grief, shame, low self-worth, difficulty trusting yourself, or recurring patterns in relationships.