Big-T trauma is known as significant life events where life, limb, or dignity have been risked drastically and the individual did not have time to integrate the pain of experience. When we experience big-T trauma, there is a something like a “before and after” experience, where the human is reckoning on multiple painful levels life before and after the event.

Small-T trauma is known as ‘death by a thousand paper cuts’ and involves the slow degradation of an individual’s safety, esteem, or sense of psychological autonomy over time.

Ethnostress, historical trauma, soul loss, colonial trauma, genocide response, and ongoing traumatic stress are traumas that continue to hurt and scar people today. Talking about this and sharing stories of community, resistance, and love while tending to the wounds are some ways we can support you as you continue to walk your path with incredible resilience.

I use research and practice from Gabor Mate, Pete Walker, Clarissa Estes, Rachel Rickets, David Richo, Monique Grey Smith, Brandi Morin, and Bessel van der Kolk.

Each brain and body system has its own unique set of rules, and those with a neurodivergent experience have ones that the atypical world rarely fully acknowledges or understands. If you are working with a brain-based experience of ADHD, Autism, OCD, HSP, or ESP you may have a unique experience that is often misunderstood in day-to-day life. Advocating for yourself may feel exhausting. Your genius and struggle may come hand in hand. It may feel isolating and like the capitalist system is not set up for you to thrive. Let’s talk about how tiresome or inspiring this can be, let’s open up a space where you can be you, without having to prove anything.

The experiences of being hurt by a supremacist system are deeply fracturing people’s hearts, minds, workplaces, and families. Talking about it means we explore the injustices that have caused an environment in which you were not allowed to be, exactly as you are. Where you may even be unsafe. Listening to you means I can, with the utmost care, hope to hold space for the pain of this suffering. To see what I can support you with as you go forth with all the strengths that make you you.

The shame, silencing, pain, and suffering that results from manipulation or assault in all its forms can be long-lasting, complex, and deeply confusing, especially when you have felt you couldn’t disclose your experience at the time. If you’re ready, I am here to listen to your story. I’m here to help deconstruct the narratives that keep you feeling powerless and victimized. It’s not easy work, but sharing can be a first step, if you need.

Known as a dis-ease of memories stuck in the past or future, depression and anxiety can both feel as though they dominate consciousness. Using Narrative techniques to externalize your experience, we can start to loosen their grip, ultimately recognizing that you are not the problem, and that you have the strength to discover coping and healing that fits right for you.

Whether in work, relationships, school, activism, parenting, families, personal life, stress is chaotic, and stress is hard on the nervous system. Mindfulness and hypnotherapy are well-documented interventions for the kinds of cyclical stress that damage our quality of life. Please inquire about how hypnotherapy can be useful for this kind of ongoing cortisol drenching!

The four steps of NVC are stating observations, then feelings, then needs, then requests. This alone can revolutionize relationships and quality of life. Whether in romantic, familial, or professional relationships, NVC helps us de-escalate and get to the core of addressing our emotional and social needs within relationships.

Expectations from society, families, and peers can have drastic impacts on the self-talk of people of all ages and backgrounds. Internalized shame, self-loathing, body dysmorphia, and disordered eating are some ways that people attempt to overcome the enormous pressure they feel to look or present a certain way. With time, awareness, and self-compassion, the path towards self-love is available.

It takes a certain kind of safe space for pre-teens and teens to explore emotions, relationships, and personal struggles (anxiety, self-esteem, pressure). My approach is tailored to their stage of development to help them process feelings, build coping skills, and improve self-awareness in a way that resonates with their experiences.