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Therapy for relational trauma in Illinois

I specialize in working with folks healing from past, recent, and ongoing interpersonal trauma.

Trauma doesn't always show up as a distinct memory, it often comes out in our daily reactions to the world and people around us. This makes it confusing to sort through on your own.

When we experience a traumatic event, it rips away our sense of power and control over our lives. But if the trauma was something you endured over time or happened when you were younger, you may not even recognize all the ways that it has impacted you. You might:

  • Find yourself snapping at loved ones

  • Break down over the smallest things

  • Constantly feel like something bad is going to happen

  • Feel numb, zone out, or doom scroll on your phone

 Are you ready to stop walking on eggshells?

How therapy works

Learn to stop unintentionally re-enacting cycles from the past.

In our work together, we will focus on how your trauma affects you today and then try to make connections to the past. We will come up with mind and body focused strategies that help you manage distress enough to feel calm and safe. I will help you gain back a sense of control and power in your life while you reconnect with who you are and want to be.

We will go back and be there for the parts of you that were harmed or did not get their needs met in the past. You will learn how to nurture and protect yourself, because no one might have shown you how to do that before. You will regain trust for your own body and mind as you heal your inner child and "reparent" yourself.

We will also get to sort through all of the different dynamics that show up for you with other people so you can figure out how to be in healthy relationships with others again, or maybe for the first time.

Therapy for trauma can help you…

  • Come to terms with things from your past

  • Not doubt your memory and experiences

  • Stop bracing for the other shoe to drop

  • Have healthy habits and relationships

  • Recognize and cope with your triggers

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Frequently asked questions about trauma therapy

FAQs

  • Trauma therapy typically incorporates learning about how the nervous system is impacted by traumatic experiences, mind-body approaches to deepen your awareness, coping skill development, and integration of your experiences into your self-understanding in a way that allows you to be fully present in life. Learn more.

  • Relational trauma is a broad category of experiences that involve being harmed by another person. This includes people seeking support for sexual, verbal, emotional, or physical abuse, neglect, violence, abandonment, discrimination, complex trauma (C-PTSD), developmental/attachment trauma, and other painful experiences. Learn more.

  • We’ll start by doing a 15-minute free phone consultation to discuss how we could work together. Learn more.

Get out of survival mode and become who you are deep down.