Trauma Therapy in the St. Louis area
You may have been told, “time heals all wounds,” but if you’ve experienced trauma, you might be wondering: When will time finally heal mine?
After experiencing trauma, you may find yourself feeling on edge, hyper-aware of danger, shut down, anxious, numb, or emotionally overwhelmed—even in situations where these responses don’t feel appropriate or make sense. This isn’t a personal flaw, and it isn’t your fault. It’s your nervous system stuck in dysregulation and your brain doing what it believes it must to protect you.
As a Certified Trauma Professional, I help you:
Build emotional & physical safety—so you’re able to engage in the work without being overwhelmed
Understand how trauma has shaped your nervous system, emotions, and reactions—making sense of what you’re feeling and why it shows up the way it does can be deeply freeing and empowering
Learn skills to regulate your body and emotions when triggers arise
Heal from past relational and childhood trauma, so you no longer see the effects show up in your current relationships
Move out of fight/flight or shut down states, and prevent them from reoccurring in the future
Strengthen your sense of self, boundaries, and emotional safety, leading to healthier relationships, safe boundaries, and increased confidence in how you relate to others
Reduce shame and self-blame, by changing negative thoughts to more helpful ones, making sense of your experiences, and giving you the power to re-define meaning
The truth is: healing from trauma requires calming your body, re-teaching your brain, and balancing your nervous system…not time.
Trauma can trap you in cycles of:
Anxiety and overthinking
Disconnection from yourself or others
Emotional numbness or hopelessness
Chronic stress or overwhelm
Fight, flight, freeze, or fawn responses — our body’s threat responses
My approach centers on the nervous system, because when trauma occurs, supporting healing that is sustainable, long-lasting, equips you in your daily life, and gives you freedom.
Healing from trauma
When trauma therapy may be helpful
Trauma impacts everyone differently. No two experiences look the same, but trauma often shapes how your brain, thoughts, emotions, behaviors, and relationships work day to day. You don’t need to have a formal diagnosis to benefit from trauma therapy, what matters most is if past experiences are continuously showing up in your life now.
You might find trauma therapy helpful if any of the following feel familiar:
You often feel “on edge” or overwhelmed even in situations that don’t seem dangerous or stressful. Your nervous system may still be stuck in survival mode.
Situations and experiences don’t make sense, and you have trouble understanding why you feel the way you do or reacted the way you did
Your responses to situations feel more like an automatic process or an urge, rather than something you chose with clarity
You find yourself coping by staying very busy, isolating, or avoiding.
Anxiety, worry, or tension show up most days and it’s hard to relax or feel calm.
Your emotions feel intense or unpredictable, like feeling numb one moment and flooded the next.
Relationships feel hard, like it’s difficult to trust, connect, or feel understood by others.
Physical symptoms show up without another clear cause, such as sleep problems, headaches, muscle tension, or chronic fatigue — especially when emotions seem connected to your body’s reactions.
You avoid certain places, people, memories, or situations because they feel triggering or unsafe.
Intrusive thoughts, flashbacks, or distressing memories pop up unexpectedly and interfere with daily life
Life feels smaller or less enjoyable than it used to, even when things are going “fine” on the outside.