Trauma-Informed and EMDR Therapy
Holistic trauma therapy to support healing from chronic stress, grief, anxiety, and life transitions. Our licensed clinicians provide compassionate, trauma-informed care and EMDR therapy in a grounded environment where your whole self is welcome.
Trauma • Grief • Anxiety • Depression • Women’s Issues • Relationship Conflict
Trauma • Grief • Anxiety • Depression • Relationship Conflict • Womens Issues • Life Transitions
Barefoot
Perspectives
Are you gaining belly fat no matter how much you exercise and eat healthy?
Do you feel fatigued? Overwhelmed? Controlled by your emotions?
Do you feel consistently, "Not good enough?" Imposter syndrome?
Do you oscillate between overly responsible overwhelm and child-like emotional dysregulation and shut-down?
You are NOT crazy!
When stress pushes you into survival mode, hormones like cortisol and adrenaline surge and reroute your energy toward protection. Blood flow pulls away from digestion and into your muscles. Your breath shortens. Your body stores fat instead of burning it. Sleep slips out of reach.
Clear thinking, emotional regulation and creativity fade because your brain is prioritizing staying alive, even if it costs you the parts of yourself that make you feel present, connected, and whole.
Have you considered that your midsection might be the part of your body that stores stress. emotion, and overwhelm?
It is NOT your personal failure
Cortisol increases glucose in the bloodstream and when the stress doesn’t resolve, insulin stays higher, which signals the body to store more fat.
Cortisol specifically promotes visceral fat storage and inhibits thyroid regulation. Chronic adrenaline can disrupt digestion, slow metabolism, and contribute to bloating or abdominal discomfort.
Over time, this can increase weight and body inflammation and the storage of body fat while decreasing immunity.
It’s not your personal failure – it’s a physiological response of your body trying to take care of you.
Has chronic stress, trauma, grief, or emotional dysregulation impacted your immune system?
Your body's protection becomes toxic
There are three types of stress on the body that can become chronic
Chronic stress shows up in three interconnected ways:
- Physical stress — pain, illness, injury, depletion, overwork, disrupted sleep, or chronic exhaustion
- Chemical stress — Inflammation spikes, excessive hormones, overabundant insulin, air and water pollution, food pesticides, etc.
- Emotional stress — trauma, grief, fear, pressure, major life changes, relationship strain, or the weight of carrying too much for too long — your mind, body, and spirit all feel it.
We combine the steadiness of evidence‑based trauma modalities like EMDR, IFS, and CBT with the deep, intuitive wisdom of expressive and somatic experiencing to support where trauma, grief, depression, anxiety, women’s transitions, and relationship distress have imprinted on your mind, heart, body, behaviors, and soul.
Healing isn’t just a conversation to have. Holistic healing is a fully embodied experience of the nervous system softening, your body feeling again safe, and your inner world reconnecting to a deepened sense of safety, ease, and self trust and care.
Don't live your past
EMDR for Trauma
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing is a research‑supported trauma therapy that helps the nervous system safely process and integrate overwhelming experiences so they no longer feel as sharp, intrusive, or activating.
Somatic Experiencing
We engage with the body’s sensations, impulses, and patterns to invite stored tension, emotional residue, and protective responses to move, shift, and integrate in ways that restore regulation, clarity, and internal steadiness.
Cognitive Behaivoral Therapy
Clients identify and shift unhelpful thought patterns and behavioral responses, creating space for clearer perspective, emotional steadiness, and more intentional, compassionate life choices.
Narrative Re-Write
Narrative re‑write invites clients to revisit the stories they’ve carried—often shaped by trauma, shame, or old survival patterns—and gently reconstruct them with clarity and compassion, creating language that supports a more intentional, self‑authored future.
Internal Family Systems
Parts‑of‑self work helps clients recognize and honor the different internal voices, roles, and protective patterns within their system—allowing each part to be understood rather than judged, and creating space for a more centered, Self‑led way of responding to life.
Inner Child
Clients reconnect with the younger selves that carry unmet needs, emotional wounds, or long‑held protective strategies, offering them the compassion, safety, and attunement they didn’t receive so that they may heal.