Who I help
Therapy for Adults Healing from Childhood Trauma
What happened then is still shaping now. You're allowed to finally deal with it.
Does this sound like you?
Recognizing yourself here
- “It happened so long ago, it feels strange to still be affected by it.”
- “I've built a whole adult life, and there's still a part of me that reacts like a kid.”
- “I minimize what happened to me because other people had it worse.”
- “I never really talked about it. I got good at not talking about it.”
- “Certain relationships or situations trigger something in me I can't fully explain.”
- “I've spent my whole life taking care of everyone else. I don't know how to let anyone take care of me.”
The work
How I approach it
Childhood is where a lot of your foundational beliefs about safety, trust, and your own worth get built — often long before you had the language to question any of it. When that foundation included harm, neglect, or just not getting what you needed, the effects don't stay in the past. They show up in how you relate to people, how you handle conflict, and how you talk to yourself now, as an adult who's long since left that situation behind.
It's common to minimize what happened, especially if it doesn't fit a dramatic story, or if you've spent years telling yourself other people had it worse. That minimizing usually isn't perspective — it's a habit that kept you safe once, and it doesn't have to keep running the show. This work is about taking what happened seriously enough to actually process it, at whatever pace that requires.
For more on how the pacing and structure of this work goes, session to session, see trauma therapy.
If you are struggling: reaching out for support can be one, small courageous step toward feeling more like yourself again.
Life can be tough, but you don't have to go it alone. Help is available.