Trauma

Trauma-informed, EMDR-informed depth work for what your nervous system had to organize itself around. Telehealth across New York.

Childhood · Complex · Attachment · Relational · Medical · Single Events · And More

What It Looks Like

If any of this is familiar.

Memories that intrude when you least expect them: flashes, dreams, a feeling in your body
Checking out mid-conversation: foggy, distant, watching yourself from far away
Avoiding the places, people, or topics that might bring it back
A body on constant alert: startling easily, scanning rooms, bracing for something
Fear or anxiety that spikes out of nowhere and feels bigger than the moment
A medical experience that still stays with you

The Approach

How I work with trauma.

Trauma work here doesn’t start with reliving it. It moves at the pace your nervous system can actually use, and the telling happens when it’s ready to happen. What we work with from day one are the patterns: the protective moves you learned early, the templates that still decide how safe closeness feels, what the body remembers even when the memory is vague.

PsychodynamicWe work with where patterns started, not just how they show up.

Trauma-informedPacing that your nervous system can actually use.

EMDREye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, integrated where it fits, full certification in progress.

Practical toolsCoping skills that help your body regulate and steady the physical symptoms, running alongside the deeper work rather than before it.

What happened to you deserves more than pushing through.

Background

What I bring to this.

I trained at New York University, and trauma is central to how I think about therapy. I work with trauma in all its forms: single events, childhood and complex trauma, relational wounds, medical experiences, and the kind that’s hard to name but shapes everything anyway. If it lives in your nervous system, it belongs in this work, and EMDR is one of the tools I bring to it.

In session, I’m warm and direct. I ask real questions, and if I notice a pattern, I’ll name it. You won’t have to perform progress here.

Questions

Trauma therapy questions.

Do I have to talk about everything that happened?

No. Trauma work doesn’t require retelling every detail, and pushing into the story too early can do more harm than good. We work with what shows up now, and the history comes in as you’re ready.

Is what I went through “enough” to count as trauma?

If it shaped how you move through the world, it counts. Trauma isn’t ranked by how dramatic the event looks from the outside. It’s about what your system had to do to get through it.

How is trauma therapy different from regular talk therapy?

Trauma therapy accounts for the nervous system. It paces the work, watches for overwhelm, and treats your protective patterns as information rather than problems. Insight matters, and so does what your body does with it.

What is EMDR?

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing is a structured, evidence-based therapy for memories that got stored with the alarm still attached. Instead of talking a memory through in detail, you follow bilateral stimulation, usually guided eye movements, while the memory is active, which helps the nervous system file it as past instead of present. It sounds strange, and the research is solid. We decide together whether it belongs in your work.

Do you offer EMDR?

Yes. I integrate EMDR into the work, with full certification in progress. Whether it’s the centerpiece of your therapy or one tool among several depends on what the work needs, and we decide that together.

The way it is now isn’t the way it has to stay.

The consultation is completely free. You don’t need the right words or the whole story to book it.