I support women with online therapy throughout Colorado who are carrying the unintegrated weight of past trauma, navigating the hyper-vigilance of PTSD, and seeking a pathway back to wholeness. My approach is warm, collaborative, action-oriented, holistic, and somatic.
Trauma is not just an event from the past; it is a frozen energetic posture held in your present-day body. It lives as a sudden racing pulse when triggered, a feeling of dissociation or floating outside yourself, and the heavy, protective armor your body carries to keep you safe.
Colorado Trauma Therapy
We move far beyond traditional talk therapy. By gently blending Jungian shadow work, somatic processing, and nervous system mapping, we safely access the deeper layers of the psyche to release trapped trauma memory, clear stagnant blocks from your energy field, and return your body to a baseline of deep, organic safety
Maybe you’ve been holding something for a long time.
Maybe you haven’t even given it a name yet, it’s just a weight you’ve gotten used to carrying, a way of moving through the world that quietly costs you more than it should.
Trauma isn’t defined by a single type of event. It can grow from one sharp, undeniable moment, or from years of circumstances that slowly wore something down. It can be named or unnamed, witnessed by others or entirely invisible. What it always has in common is this: something happened that your system couldn’t fully absorb at the time, and so it held on.
When we experience something overwhelming, the body responds before the thinking mind has a chance to weigh in. Stress hormones surge. The nervous system activates its most primal protective responses — fight, flight, or freeze — doing everything it can to get you through. In a moment of genuine danger, that response is exactly right.
How to Heal From Trauma
How to Heal From Trauma
The nervous system doesn’t always get the signal that it’s over. It can stay activated long after the threat has passed. Reshaping stress hormone levels, affecting the brain structures involved in memory and emotional regulation, and keeping the body in a state of low-grade alert that becomes the new normal. Over time, this shows up as anxiety, depression, emotional exhaustion, difficulty trusting, and a persistent sense that something is wrong even when you can’t point to what. None of this is a character flaw. It’s your body doing its best with what it was given. And it’s something that genuinely responds to the right support.
Trauma shows up differently in different women.
Trauma shows up differently in different women.
Some of what you recognize might be vivid and intrusive, memories that surface without invitation, dreams that jolt you awake, moments where the past stops feeling like the past and starts feeling immediate again.
Some of it might be quieter. A habit of steering around certain people or places or conversations without quite knowing why. A way of reading rooms, scanning for exits, bracing before things even begin. A shift in how you see yourself — the slow accumulation of shame, guilt, or a hopelessness that settled in so gradually you barely noticed when it arrived.
Tension that lives in your shoulders, your chest, your jaw. Sleep that doesn’t restore you the way it should. Reactions that feel bigger than the moment warrants and leave you wondering what’s wrong with you.
Nothing is wrong with you. Your system learned to respond this way. With the right support, it can learn something new.
How We Work Together
How We Work Together
I work with trauma through a deeply relational, body-informed approach, because trauma that lives in the nervous system needs more than conversation to shift. Depending on what you’re carrying and what your system needs, our work together might include any of the following.
Somatic Therapy brings attention to the body as a source of information and a site of healing. Rather than talking about what happened, we pay attention to what’s happening physically — where you hold tension, where you contract, where you go numb — and work gently with those signals rather than pushing past them. Trauma stored in the body responds to body-based approaches in ways that talk therapy alone often can’t reach.
Nervous System Regulation is where we begin, before anything else. Healing requires that your system feels resourced enough to do the work without being overwhelmed by it. This means building genuine capacity for safety — through awareness practices, grounded presence, and the regulating effect of a consistent, trusted therapeutic relationship. Many women find this phase quietly transformative on its own.
Guided Visualization offers a way into parts of your experience that language doesn’t always capture. This might mean meeting a younger version of yourself with compassion, moving through a difficult memory from a place of felt safety, or developing an internal sense — held in your body, not just your mind — of what it actually feels like to be okay. It tends to be gentler than people expect, and often surprisingly moving.
Parts-Based Work operates from the understanding that we all contain multitudes. The part of you that stays hypervigilant, the part that shuts down, the part that is still waiting for someone to come back — these aren’t problems to fix. They’re responses that made sense once. When we approach them with curiosity rather than frustration, something shifts that effort alone cannot produce.
Healing from Childhood Trauma and Emotional Trauma
Healing from Childhood Trauma and Emotional Trauma
Childhood trauma is its own particular complexity, because it doesn’t just leave a mark on a formed person — it shapes the person who is forming. The nervous system wires itself around early experiences of safety or its absence. The patterns that develop don’t announce themselves as wounds. They become the way you think, the way you relate, the way you move through the world — so familiar they feel like identity rather than adaptation.
Part of healing from childhood trauma is the slow, careful work of distinguishing between the two. Between who you actually are and who you became in order to navigate what you were given.
Emotional trauma is often invisible in a way that makes it harder to claim. When there’s no single defining event, only years of having your feelings minimized, your needs treated as burdens, or your inner life consistently misread or dismissed — the damage is real but diffuse. It lives in the body as a permanent low-level readiness to be hurt again, as difficulty believing that being seen won’t cost you something.
Healing from emotional trauma is possible. It doesn’t require a dramatic narrative. It requires a relationship where something genuinely different happens — where you are met, consistently, with steadiness and care.
Healing from Past Trauma — Even Decades Later
Healing from Past Trauma — Even Decades Later
A lot of women wonder why something from years ago still has any grip on them at all. The answer is that healing doesn’t happen on a timeline the way other things do. The nervous system holds unprocessed experience not as a dated memory but as an active state — a posture, a reflex, a way of being in the body that doesn’t know it’s operating on old information. Time passes. The pattern remains.
Healing from past trauma is available to you now, regardless of how long it has been. Many women find that the very distance they worried disqualified them actually works in their favor — the stability and self-knowledge they’ve built over time gives them real resources for doing this work. It’s not too late. It was never too late.
Frequently Asked Questions
Do I need to describe what happened in detail to start therapy?
No. Many of the most effective approaches to trauma work require very little retelling of events. What you share, and when, is entirely your call. We set the pace together based on what your system can genuinely hold — not based on a checklist of what I need to know.
I don’t have a PTSD diagnosis. Can I still work with you?
Absolutely. A formal diagnosis isn’t a prerequisite for trauma therapy. I work from your lived experience and what you’re noticing in your body and your life — not from a label. Many women begin this work without any diagnosis at all.
What if I’m not even sure what I experienced qualifies as trauma?
This is something I hear often. Trauma is defined by its impact on your nervous system, not by an external standard of severity. If something from your history is still shaping how you feel in your body, how safe you feel in relationships, or how you move through daily life — it deserves attention. There’s no minimum qualification required.
What happens if I get overwhelmed in a session?
That’s something we navigate together, not something you have to manage on your own. Sessions are paced intentionally so you’re working at the edge of your window of tolerance, not beyond it. Feeling things is part of the process. Being pushed past what you can integrate is not.
How long does it take to heal from trauma?
It genuinely varies. Single-incident trauma often responds within six to twelve months of consistent work. Complex or developmental trauma — especially childhood trauma — tends to unfold over a longer arc. What I can promise is that most women experience real, tangible shifts well before the work is complete. The process changes things. Not just the destination.
Do you offer online trauma therapy in Colorado?
Yes. My practice is fully online, so I work with women anywhere in Colorad including Denver, Colorado Springs, Fort Collins, Longmont, Loveland, and beyond.
How I Support You
The work I do with women around trauma is ultimately about this: coming home to yourself. To your body, your relationships, your capacity for genuine ease and joy. If you’re ready to take a first step, I’d be glad to hear from you.