Healing from Complex Trauma (CPTSD)
Healing Trauma & Complex PTSD
Trauma lives in the body. It shapes how your nervous system responds to the world, how you see yourself, and how you move through relationships.
Sometimes trauma comes from a single event—an accident, a loss, violence, or medical crisis. Other times it builds quietly over years in environments that felt unpredictable, emotionally unsafe, or confusing.
If the people you depended on were inconsistent, unavailable, or frightening, your system learned to adapt. You may have become hypervigilant, always reading the room, bracing for what might come next. Those strategies helped you survive, but they also become the lens through which you experience safety, connection, and yourself. That's often how Complex PTSD takes root.
You might recognize some of these thoughts:
Something is wrong with me
I'm too much or not enough
I don't belong anywhere
I'm unlovable
Or notice patterns like:
Chronic shame, self-blame, or doubt
Fear of being truly seen or known
Craving closeness but also pushing it away
Feeling tense, exhausted, numb, or shut down
If this feels familiar, you're not alone. These are survival responses. Your nervous system adapted to keep you safe in an unsafe world.
Healing starts with understanding that, not judging it. With the right support, your system can begin to settle. You can feel more present, more connected, and more at home in your own body.
A Holistic Path to Healing
Talk therapy helps, but trauma healing requires more than insight. Your nervous system needs actual experiences of safety.
My approach brings together nervous system work, somatic awareness, and relational healing—at a pace that respects where you are.
Nervous System Regulation | Polyvagal Theory
We work to help your body move out of chronic fight, flight, freeze, or shutdown. This might include gentle breathwork, grounding, sound, or small movements that signal safety to your system.
Somatic Awareness
Somatic work helps you reconnect with your body slowly and carefully. We notice sensations, track what's happening inside, and make space for what's been held there. The goal is to rebuild trust in your body rather than fear of it.
Internal Family Systems (IFS) and Parts Work
Complex trauma often leaves parts of us carrying fear, shame, grief, or hypervigilance. Through IFS, we meet those parts with curiosity instead of judgment—helping them feel seen, valued, and less burdened.
Rebuilding Safety and Secure Attachment
Healing also means strengthening your adult self—the part of you that can protect, care for, and guide your inner world. As that part grows stronger, relationships feel less threatening and you develop a deeper trust in yourself.
You don't have to re-live your trauma to heal from it. Healing happens through safety, attunement, and choice.
With the right support, your nervous system can learn a new way of being—one that includes more ease, more connection, and a sense of coming home to yourself.
I'd be honored to walk that path with you.
