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Who I Serve
I provide online therapy throughout California for adults navigating complex trauma, chronic illness, chronic pain, medical trauma, identity exploration, and relationship concerns.
Challenges that I support clients in navigating
-Living with Complex Chronic Illness
Lyme Disease
Autoimmune Encephalitis
PANS/PANDAS
Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME/CFS)
Long COVID
Dysautonomia
Post Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS)
Mast Cell Activation Syndrome (MCAS)
Mold Illness/Biotoxin Illness (CIRS)
Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS)
Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder (PMDD)
Endometriosis and Adenomyosis
Breast Cancer
Ovarian Cancer
-Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (CPTSD)- individuals who have experienced prolonged trauma and adversity that has caused chronic dysregulation, and impacts the way they feel in their body, their relationships and their day to day life.
-Hyper-empathic, Highly Sensitive People experiencing empathic stress in their body, or empathic, emotional or sensory overwhelm
-Women navigating reproductive health challenges, fertility treatments, infertility, pregnancy loss or Endometriosis
-LGBTQIA+ folks who are family planning- lesbian, queer and gender-expansive partners navigating the complexity of fertility treatments and reproductive care
-Partners navigating inter-abled relationship, a partner’s new or long standing medical diagnosis, or loving a partner with PTSD
-Navigating new and healthy relationship after surviving domestic violence, sexual trauma or relational harm.
-Processing experiences of Sexual Violence, and related long standing feelings of lack of safety in the body or in relationship.
-Preparing for or processing major surgery such as hysterectomy, mastectomy, bowel surgery or spinal procedures.
-Teachers, Healthcare Workers, Frontline Workers and Caregivers who carry the stress of their day to day work.
Identity Affirming Care
I aim for this to be a soft spot to land and a safe space for those who have been in prolonged dysregulation, or for those who have been disenfranchised by our current structures and systems. All facets of you, your identity and your history are embraced here. I'm queer affirming, neuro-affirming, medical trauma sensitive and I've honed additional skills in navigating attachment in polyamorous, non-monogamous or open relationship structures.
You can exhale; you are not only welcome here, you belong here.
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Goals for Trauma Therapy
-Regulatory skill building for those who live with chronic pain
-Mending (or re-developing) the mind-body relationship for those living with complex chronic illness or complex trauma
-Supporting highly sensitive people in processing and releasing somatic stress
-Differentiating anxiety from intuition, discernment development, strengthening one's own inner compass
-Recovering and reconnecting to sense of self, inner wisdom, and innate voice
-Processing the profound impacts of medical trauma, physical trauma and/or sexual trauma, and de-sensitizing the somatic and/or environmental trauma triggers
-Supporting survivors of domestic violence, intimate partner violence, or sexual assault connect to trust, safety and security in new and healthy relationship
-Re-estabilishing a grounded mind-body connection after experiencing sexual trauma, and repairing relationship with one's own sexuality and inner terrain
-Rebuilding life, and restoring confidence around dating post breakup or divorce
-Attachment healing post relational rupture or betrayal trauma, to interrupt limerence, insecurity or looping relational fears
-Building a social life and a foundation of relational peace when dating with social anxiety and/or as a highly sensitive person
-Intentionally navigating building a social life and dating with chronic illness, disability or chronic pain
-Navigating and processing relational impacts of living with chronic illness
-Honoring and processing the stress of LGBTQIA+ family planning in our current political climate
-Honoring and processing the stress and grief of fertility challenges, infertility and family planning obstacles
-Honoring and processing grief (at all of its stages) during and post pregnancy loss
-Honoring and processing the cyclical grief of life with complex chronic illness, disability and/or terminal illness
Chronic Lyme Disease
Processing medical trauma with clients who have Chronic Lyme or Late Stage Lyme Disease is a layered experience. We’re often processing years, sometimes a decade (or three), of medical gaslighting and misdiagnosis. Then, we’re processing the shell shock of what happens after diagnosis. Treatment for persistent tick borne illness is a harrowing experience. It isn’t linear there is no predictable timeline, and it often includes experiences like “herxing” where a person feels worse in new and debilitating ways before seeing any improvement. Lyme treatment can be profoundly isolating, dysregulating, scary and depleting. Here, in this therapeutic space, I join you on that non-linear path with my integrative trauma processing toolbox to process the impacts to your nervous system, to your relationships, to your life and your sense of self. Here, you have someone to walk alongside you even (and especially) in the darkest parts. Then, when the most intense part of your treatment ebbs, I’m with you as we walk into the light and you begin to rebuild what life looks like and feels like on the other side. You no longer have to walk this path alone, no matter how long that walk takes. I’m here for it.
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Endometriosis
The average time it takes to get diagnosed with Endometriosis is 7-11 years. Clients with Endometriosis, Adenomyosis and/or pelvic pain have often seen countless doctors and medical professionals, even numerous therapists, before landing in my therapy room. They have often lived with severe pain that they’ve been gaslit about not only by medical professionals, but also by those around them. Maybe they’ve struggled to access care with an Endometriosis excision surgeon. Maybe they have accessed care but they’ve endured numerous surgeries just for the disease to return again. Here, in this therapeutic space, we process all of it. We process the way severe and chronic pain has impacted your nervous system, the way it has changed your life, its impacts to family planning and its impact to your identity and relationships. We prepare your psyche and nervous system for things like excision surgery, new treatments, pelvic floor physical therapy or new medical consults. We’ll utilize an integrative toolbox for medical trauma processing to re-process the experiences you’ve had along the way.
Long Covid
Many of my clients with Long COVID are processing the shock of life looking one way, contracting a virus, and everything about life changing as they knew it. Living with Long COVID is a complex experience socially and emotionally, given the drastic political polarization during and post pandemic, which has compounded the isolation of those who have been debilitated by the infection. Here, I support you in all you are navigating medically and socially, as well as all of the ways you have had to adapt life to meet your body and immune system’s new needs. We’ll use integrative tools, like Brainspotting and IFS parts work, to process the physical, medical and relational trauma often sustained by those with Long COVID and associated secondary conditions like POTS, MCAS, and ME/CFS. Here, you are seen and understood in your experience of complex chronic illness as you rebuild your connection to your body, process the impacts to sense of self, and recover your identity.
