Approaches · Specialties
Specialized, body-based treatment for both acute and complex trauma — in person at my Henrico office near Richmond, Virginia, or online throughout Virginia and Washington, DC.
Trauma comes in different shapes, and it deserves treatment that fits. I'm trained to work with both kinds — using Somatic Experiencing® and Inner Relationship Focusing to help the nervous system resolve what talking alone often can't reach.
A single overwhelming event the body hasn't been able to move through — medical traumas, accidents, or assaults. Even years later, the nervous system can stay stuck in that moment: startle responses, avoidance, intrusive body memories, or a life quietly organized around not feeling it again.
Long-term patterns rooted in family, educational, workplace, or financial trauma — including complex developmental trauma and codependency. This is the trauma of what happened over and over, or what should have happened and didn't. It often hides inside highly successful lives.
We don't force the story out, and we don't relive it. We work at the pace your nervous system can actually integrate — building capacity first, then gently completing the survival responses that got interrupted. Confusion about past events often resolves not through analysis, but because the body finally gets to finish what it started.
All care is private pay, which keeps your records entirely outside insurance databases — a meaningful protection for clients in the Richmond and Washington, DC areas who value their privacy. More on fees and confidentiality.
