Complex Trauma Therapy
In-person in Anchorage and online throughout Alaska and Florida.
You may feel the toll of survival mode in your body through chronic bracing you cannot switch off, difficulty trusting relationships, or trouble setting boundaries.
Over time, you may start to believe that what you’re experiencing is normal. You learn to adapt, keep going, and live around it.
These patterns may have begun much earlier, in relationships or environments where you had to adapt to stay safe and connected. Maybe your needs were overlooked, your boundaries were crossed, speaking up came with consequences, or no one consistently showed up when you needed them.
Complex trauma can develop when experiences like these happen repeatedly, especially when there is no safe way to escape, protect yourself, or get the support you need.
Sometimes survival looks like adapting so well that no one sees what it costs you.
Maybe you learned to carry more than anyone realized.
You can build a life that feels like yours - not just one you survived into.
HERE’S WHAT WE WILL DO TOGETHER
Complex Trauma Therapy Can Help.
Healing isn’t about fitting yourself into a textbook. Our work is collaborative and shaped around the way you process, what helps you feel more grounded, and what your nervous system may need along the way.
Together, we pay attention to what supports you, what feels stuck, and what helps you move forward without leaving yourself behind.
The Framework & Tools
The Tools: Depth-oriented talk therapy and body-centered EMDR, Brainspotting, parts work and other body-centered approaches to help us explore what may be difficult to access through words alone.
The Framework: Anchor. Ascend. Become.™is my orienting framework for supporting post-traumatic growth, helping us orient the work and understand what may be needed next.
How Anchor. Ascend. Become.™ Guides Our Work
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We may begin by slowing things down, noticing what is happening in your body, and getting clearer about your needs, values, and what helps you feel more steady.
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As more space opens up, we can work with old patterns, process what still feels stuck, and explore choices that feel more intentional and true to you.
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Over time, we focus on strengthening self-trust so you can respond from who you are now—not only from what survival once required.
These are not stages. We may move between them again and again depending on what is happening and what you need.
What we’ll work on
Imagine this…
You are not always waiting for something to go wrong.
You can say no, ask for what you need, and stay connected without losing yourself.
You trust what you feel, want, and need.
You make choices because they fit you, not because fear or survival is running the show.