Providing in-person trauma therapy in the Eden Prairie, Savage, Shakopee, and surrounding South Metro area, and online.
You’ve been to therapy before, you’re doing the work, but you can’t quite get there; to the root. Or you might have accessed the insight and awareness of what is at the core of your challenges but need help to integrate and embody the shifted awareness into your life. You might be ready to engage in therapy again but need that safe and grounded space to settle in a bit deeper and the patience to explore at your own pace.
I offer a warm, yet gently direct and containing space to explore the ongoing repeated cycles of challenges that present both within your life, your relationship with yourself, and relationships with others.
I specialize in therapy for adults navigating the long-term effects of childhood trauma, relational trauma, and chronic stress. Many of the people I work with are deeply caring, empathic, hard-working, intentional, capable people who have spent years adapting to difficult relational environments or navigating challenging circumstances. They are the deep feelers, often feeling overwhelmed, overstimulated, anxious, and feeling burned out more often than they’d like. They may be experiencing cycles of anxiety, depression, stress, or learning of their own neurodivergence, experiencing spiritual awakening, or are spiritual seekers and begin having anomalous or unusual experiences that leave them feeling unsettled, confused, or afraid.
My therapeutic work is grounded in trauma-informed, attachment-focused therapy, somatic and depth psychology approaches; helping you to understand how your early experiences shape nervous system responses, relationships, and sense of self.
As a Reiki practitioner and practitioner trained to incorporate energy healing and other complementary or spirituality-based therapy and healing methods (sound, energy, and symbolic or insight oriented tools – divination tools), I may offer to integrate these when Clients are interested and it serves their goals for treatment during psychotherapy interventions as these methods can help us gain access to memory that often feels lost or inaccessible, as well as help us access states of safety in the body. These methods may not be of interest to everyone, and you may let me know at any moment.
I am trained in the following empirically grounded and/or evidence-based models of therapy within my practice: EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, including the Early Trauma Protocol), IFS (Internal Family Systems), and CPP (Child-Parent Psychotherapy – ages 0-6 with their caregivers when a trauma has occurred).
If you are looking for a trauma therapist in the Savage or south metro Minnesota area, you are welcome to reach out to schedule if working together feels like a good fit for you.
I am also a South Carolina Telehealth Registered Marriage and Family Therapist Provider (#1457). South Carolina Telehealth Registration List (https://llr.sc.gov/TeleHealth/Counselor.html)
