Trauma-Informed Care
Enhance Emotional Stability
and Self Awareness
As As a trauma-informed practitioner, I work with you to create a safe, supportive space where healing and self-discovery can happen at your own pace. I integrate Internal Family Systems (IFS) into my approach, helping you explore the different parts of yourself—those that carry pain, fear, or protective patterns—and understand how they influence your thoughts, emotions, and behaviors. Rather than trying to “fix” you, our work focuses on building awareness, self-compassion, and internal harmony.
Many people who have experienced trauma find themselves stuck in cycles of anxiety, shame, or hypervigilance. Through IFS, you’ll learn to connect with your “Self,” the calm, grounded, and wise part of you that can observe and guide your other parts. By strengthening this connection, you can develop new ways of responding to stress, regulate difficult emotions, and navigate relationships with more clarity and confidence.
My approach goes beyond symptom relief—while easing anxiety, depression, or overwhelm is often part of the process, the deeper goal is helping you reconnect with your inner wisdom, establish healthy boundaries, and experience a greater sense of balance and resilience in your life. Together, we’ll work to cultivate a sense of safety, empowerment, and personal growth that lasts long after the session ends.
Scholarships Available for Financial Assistance
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Internal Family Systems (IFS) is a powerful and compassionate approach to understanding the mind. It’s based on the idea that we each have an internal system made up of different “parts” — inner voices, feelings, and aspects of ourselves that carry unique perspectives and emotions. Often, these parts develop in response to life’s challenges and can take on protective roles to help us cope.
In IFS, we learn to meet these parts with curiosity and care rather than judgment. As we build a relationship with them, we access our core Self — the calm, compassionate, and wise center within each of us. From this place, true healing and integration naturally unfold.
IFS helps people:
• Understand and soothe inner conflicts
• Heal past wounds with compassion
• Restore balance, clarity, and inner harmony
• Strengthen self-leadership and emotional resilience
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Gestalt Therapy is an experiential and human-centered approach that emphasizes awareness, presence, and personal responsibility. It helps people explore their thoughts, emotions, and behaviors in the present moment, rather than focusing solely on the past.
At the heart of Gestalt Therapy is the belief that individuals are best understood in the context of their environment and relationships. The therapy encourages clients to notice patterns, unfinished business, and areas where they may be avoiding or suppressing feelings. By bringing these experiences into conscious awareness, clients can gain insight, self-acceptance, and the freedom to make choices that align with their true selves.
Gestalt Therapy helps people:
• Increase self-awareness and mindfulness
• Understand and express emotions more fully
• Improve relationships through authentic communication
• Resolve internal conflicts and complete unfinished experiences
• Cultivate personal growth and self-empowerment
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Mindfulness regulation techniques are practices that help individuals become more aware of their thoughts, emotions, and bodily sensations in the present moment. By cultivating this awareness without judgment, people can respond to stress, anxiety, and intense emotions with greater clarity and calm, rather than reacting impulsively.
These techniques are tools for building emotional resilience and self-regulation. They often include practices such as guided breathing, body scanning, grounding exercises, mindful movement, and attention-focused exercises. Over time, regular use of mindfulness regulation techniques can help individuals:
• Calm the nervous system and reduce stress
• Recognize and pause before reacting to intense emotions
• Increase focus, clarity, and mental presence
• Build emotional resilience and self-compassion
• Navigate challenging experiences with more ease and balance
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Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is a mindfulness-based approach to psychotherapy that helps people live a meaningful and fulfilling life, even in the presence of difficult thoughts, feelings, or experiences. Rather than trying to eliminate uncomfortable emotions, ACT teaches individuals to accept them while committing to actions that align with their values.
ACT focuses on six core processes:
• Acceptance: Allowing thoughts and feelings to be present without trying to control them
• Cognitive Defusion: Learning to see thoughts as just thoughts, not absolute truths
• Mindfulness: Staying present and aware in the current moment
• Self-as-Context: Connecting with a consistent sense of Self beyond passing thoughts and feelings
• Values Clarification: Identifying what truly matters in life
• Committed Action: Taking intentional steps toward living in alignment with one’s values
Through ACT, individuals can:
• Reduce the struggle with stress, anxiety, or painful emotions
• Gain clarity on personal values and purpose
• Build psychological flexibility and resilience
• Take meaningful action toward a fulfilling life
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