Healing Trauma and PTSD

Part of You Keeps Watch

Trusting people is hard, especially men.

One part of you wants connection desperately, while another part keeps looking for the moment you'll get hurt again.

So you keep your guard up and make yourself smaller. Anticipating what everyone else needs feels safer than finding out what happens when someone is disappointed, angry, or unsafe.

It feels like you've been holding a beach ball underwater for years and pretending it isn't there.

Sometimes What Hurts You Most Is What Didn't Happen

You've already tried hard enough. This is what trauma does, whether it came from one event or a long pattern of them.

That pattern looks like walking on eggshells, being the peacemaker, being told you were too sensitive, or being betrayed by someone you trusted.

When you reached for safety, you were told to just pray or try harder. When you needed someone to believe you, protect you, or simply see you, they didn't.

You learned how to survive. And those survival skills don't magically disappear because the danger is gone.

We'll Work With Your Body and Your Mind

We meet you where you're at with empathy and advocacy.

Trauma lives in your body as well as your thoughts, so your therapy works with both.

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) and Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART) help your brain and body process the experiences your nervous system is still holding onto.

Internal Family Systems (IFS) helps you understand and care for the parts of you that formed to keep you safe. We also draw from trauma-focused and other evidence-based approaches when they fit your needs.