Trauma Therapy for Empaths & Helpers
You’re functioning — but barely.
On the outside, you may seem composed, capable, even successful. But inside, you're exhausted. You're constantly second-guessing yourself, overextending for others, or walking on eggshells just to keep the peace.
And deep down, you’re wondering:
Why does it feel so hard just to be ME?
Trauma doesn’t always look like a single defining event. Sometimes, it’s the accumulation of emotional injuries — shame, neglect, betrayal, unmet needs — that quietly shape how you see yourself and relate to the world.
How Trauma Shows Up in Your Daily Life
You’d be surprised just how trauma leaves its mark in all arenas of your life. Unresolved trauma isn’t always so obvious — there are so many other expressions of trauma than panic attacks.
Here are the various ways unprocessed trauma might be straining your life:
In Your Personal Life
Constant guilt or shame, even when you’ve done nothing wrong
Feeling numb, disconnected, or like you’re “too much”/”too little”
Chronic burnout from always being “ON”
Always in survival mode, never truly at ease
In Your Relationships
Difficulty setting or maintaining healthy boundaries
People-pleasing or over-functioning to avoid conflict or criticism
Feeling resentful (and then feeling BAD that you do bc you "shouldn’t”)
Difficulty trusting others — relationships are transactional or avoided
In Your Work & Professional Ambitions
Perfectionism that paralyzes you
Imposter syndrome, no matter how qualified you are
Overworking to prove your worth (while downplaying your accomplishments)
Feeling like you're never doing "enough"
These patterns aren’t signs that something is seriously wrong or bad with you. To survive what once felt unsafe, overwhelming, or out of control, your mind and body created cages to protect you. These protective strategies were very useful and very much needed…back then.
It’s just that those very same cages are now keeping you TRAPPED, especially when the outside world now is actually safe enough to come out and explore.
It’s time for your body to heal opening the cage door with the key that’s actually within your body.
What is Trauma Therapy?
In sessions, I help you find your key by sorting through all the STUFF you’ve accumulated to make yourself comfortable (as much as possible) in that tiny cage that you’ve outgrown.
We take a look at the various areas of your life that have been affected by trauma, starting with the most urgent areas.
(Think of an emergency room — we are triaging by prioritizing what needs critical care to stop the bleeding, and eventually preparing for the essential surgeries that address the deeper issues that caused those surface problems in the first place.)
Trauma therapy is less about the HOW and more about the WHAT — what’s hurting, what’s being avoided, and what you’ve carried for far too long.
Trauma therapy helps you reconnect with your inner wisdom, learn how to regulate your nervous system, and finally feel safe in your own body and life.
(Click here to learn more about Brainspotting, the HOW people heal from trauma.)
Who I Help
I specialize in working with:
Helping & healing professionals
Highly Sensitive Persons (HSPs) & Empaths
Enneagram: Type 1 (Improver), Type 2 (Befriender), Type 4 (Individualist), Type 9 (Harmonizers)
Professionals experiencing burnout & imposter syndrome
People Pleasers & Perfectionists struggling to feel “enough”
Adult children of immigrants
Adults healing from emotionally immature, chaotic, or unavailable families
What I Help With
Single-incident Traumas
Car accidents
Sports injury
Medical trauma
Complex PTSD
Childhood Emotional Neglect/Abuse
Relational trauma
Attachment wounds
Effects of Trauma
Shame, guilt, and self-blame
Anxiety and chronic stress
Panic attacks
Burnout and emotional fatigue
Identity loss and self-worth struggles
If you’ve ever felt like you’re “too much,” “not enough,” or invisible unless you’re performing/helping others — this space is for you.
You Deserve a Safe Space to Heal
Our therapy sessions are designed to help you:
Understand the roots of your current struggles
Learn how to help your nervous system settle & rest (& BREATHE!)
Navigate and work with difficult, sloshy feelings
Reclaim your sense of self-worth and agency
Create authentic, sustainable boundaries
Release survival patterns that just don’t work for you anymore
You’re not broken — you’re just carrying pain that was never yours to hold alone.
You don’t have to keep hustling for worth or love, or just “get over it.” You’ve done the best you could with the tools you had. Now it’s time to let someone else carry your load with you so that you can focus on building trust in yourself.
Struggling with emotional triggers or intimacy issues in your relationships because you were hurt in the past? Brainspotting is a powerful trauma therapy that helps you release past wounds stored in the body—so you can clearly see and effectively attend to each new person and moment clearly for what it is, instead of what your old trauma ghosts tell you they are.