If you've carried something heavy for most of your life, you may not even have a name for it. You've likely functioned, perhaps quite well on the outside, while quietly managing an inner world that feels fragmented, exhausting, or impossible to fully explain to others.

Trauma isn't always a single event. Sometimes it's the accumulation of what happened, what didn't happen, and what you had to become in order to survive it.

Many people who have experienced complex or developmental trauma arrive in therapy having already tried to understand themselves — reading, reflecting, perhaps even previous therapy — and still finding that certain patterns persist. The hypervigilance. The difficulty trusting. The sense of being fundamentally different from others, or somehow too much, or never quite enough. These aren't character flaws. They are adaptations that made sense once, and now deserve to be understood rather than managed.

My work is psychoanalytic and tailored entirely to you — not to a protocol or a checklist of symptoms. We work to understand the roots of these patterns: how early relational experiences shaped your sense of self, how the past continues to live in the present, and how parts of you were split off or hidden because they were too painful, too shameful, or too unsafe to be held at the time. Over time, we pay attention to how these dynamics emerge in the therapeutic relationship itself — which becomes one of the most important places where new ways of being can be discovered and practiced.

I move at a pace that honors your nervous system and respects your defenses. This is not about pushing through or re-exposing you to what was overwhelming. It is about building the kind of steady, trusting relationship in which deeper understanding becomes possible — and in which the parts of you that were never fully seen can finally be known.