Therapy Designed for
Your Unique Brain
EMDR is a brain-based therapy that helps you process painful memories, reduce triggers, and feel more in control—using simple tools like eye movements or tapping to calm your nervous system and rewire old patterns.
EMDR Therapy
Therapy for Anxiety
Anxiety can look like a racing mind, tight chest, looping “what-ifs,” trouble sleeping, irritability, or the urge to avoid things you care about. If you’re a mom or woman who’s been “holding it all together,” anxiety often hides under perfectionism, overthinking, and people-pleasing. We can change that - gently and effectively.
Betrayal Trauma Treatment
Betrayal trauma can shake your sense of safety and leave you questioning everything you thought you could trust. You might feel overwhelmed by waves of anger, grief, confusion, or even shame-wondering how you missed the signs or if you’ll ever feel secure again.
EMDR Therapy
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Women's Therapy
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Talk Psychotherapy
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Virtual Therapy
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EMDR Therapy • Women's Therapy • Talk Psychotherapy • Virtual Therapy •
EMDR Therapy
(Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Therapy)
Trauma doesn’t always look dramatic on the outside- especially when you’ve spent years learning how to keep it hidden. For many neurodivergent women, it shows up more subtly: chronic overthinking, people-pleasing, low self-worth, and an endless drive to prove yourself, all while appearing “high-functioning” to everyone around you. You might be praised for holding it all together, but inside, you’re overwhelmed, disconnected, and exhausted.
These patterns often trace back to a mix of anxiety, unresolved trauma, and the invisible toll of navigating a world not built for neurodivergent minds. EMDR offers a way to break free from survival mode. Together, we can help you process the past, set boundaries without guilt, and finally feel aligned with who you really are- not who you’ve been expected to be.
EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) is a proven, brain-based therapy designed to help you process overwhelming emotions, thoughts, and experiences. Using bilateral stimulation- like guided eye movements, gentle tapping, or alternating sounds- EMDR helps your brain reprocess stuck memories in a way that feels more manageable. This mimics the natural healing that happens during REM sleep, the part of the sleep cycle where your brain sorts and stores what you’ve been through.
EMDR helps reduce the emotional intensity of past experiences so they no longer feel as activating or disruptive. As your nervous system softens its grip on trauma, you’ll notice more room for calm, clarity, and confidence. One of the most empowering aspects of EMDR is that you don’t have to relive every detail of your trauma to experience relief- healing can happen without telling your story over and over.
Therapy for Anxiety
You might look driven and “together” on the outside - while the inside never stops. The what-ifs, mental rehearsals, and worst-case spirals feel like your default setting. Sensory overwhelm, decision fatigue, and a relentless inner critic can pile on. You’re not “too sensitive”- your nervous system is working overtime to keep you safe.
Perfectionism and people-pleasing may have helped you cope - until they started running the show. Now rest feels guilty, slowing down is uncomfortable, and the critic gets loud the moment you try. Anxiety therapy is where we interrupt that cycle, gently and effectively.
Together we’ll map your anxiety pattern, find the resources that actually change it, and build small, repeatable practices that lower your baseline. Over time, clients notice fewer spirals, faster recovery when they happen, deeper sleep, clearer focus, and the capacity to choose what matters instead of coping all day.
If you’re ready for grounded, practical help, let’s talk. We’ll create a plan that fits your life - and helps your nervous system finally exhale.
Betrayal Trauma Treatment
Betrayal trauma can shake your entire sense of reality- especially when you’ve trusted deeply. Whether it was infidelity, emotional neglect, or a toxic dynamic, the aftermath often leaves you questioning everything: your judgment, your safety, and even your self-worth. The grief, anger, confusion, and shame can feel overwhelming- especially if you’re already someone who tends to internalize, overthink, or feel things deeply.
For neurodivergent women, betrayal trauma can be especially destabilizing. You may have masked, people-pleased, or adapted to maintain connection- only to end up feeling blindsided, unseen, and deeply hurt. The rupture can impact not just how you view others, but how you relate to yourself.
Using an attachment-based, trauma-informed approach, therapy creates space to make sense of the chaos and validate your emotional experience. Betrayal trauma treatment supports you in processing the relational harm, rebuilding safety within your body and nervous system, and restoring your sense of agency. With EMDR and other brain-based tools, we’ll gently work through the layers of pain so you can reconnect with your intuition, reclaim your voice, and begin to trust yourself again.
The goal isn’t just to get through it- it’s to help you feel whole again. Over time, this work can help you move from surviving to thriving- with more clarity, confidence, and connection to who you truly are.
Healing Methods
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EMDR stands for Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing and is a brain and body-based type of therapy that focuses on reprocessing memories and experiences that have been stored maladaptively.
When we have caregivers that can’t attend to us in the way that we needed as children- through neglect, abuse, or even smothering- we can grow to have distressing symptoms in adulthood. Certain trauma wounds, whether they are a one-time experience such as a car accident or a scary plane flight, or ongoing traumatic experiences can also leave us with distressing symptoms.
EMDR uses certain mechanisms in the brain to reprocess these experiences, memories, and even the absence of certain experiences that we needed as children. A technique called bilateral stimulation is used which gives sensory input to both sides of the brain and body and can be done using eye movements or tapping.
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Your “inner child” is the part of your subconscious that holds the messages you were given at the early stages in your life. When you take time to acknowledge and “re-parent” your inner child- you are healing yourself by creating new neural pathways in your brain to replace old messages you received.
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ART or Accelerated Resolution Therapy is a brain-based therapy very similar to EMDR. With ART, an individual can desensitize and change a distressing memory through the use of imagery and repetition.
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CBT is a type of therapy that is very effective for individuals who experience anxiety or worry. The basis of CBT is that our thoughts create our feelings which then create our behaviors.
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Internal Family Systems theory (or IFS for short) is a type of therapy that, like inner child work, focuses on parts of ourselves that have been created throughout our childhood (and adult life) that hold emotions, belief systems, and certain behaviors we perform for safety or protection. The idea that we all hold different parts of ourselves that get activated is based in neuroscience- different neural networks hold different feeling states, behaviors, memories, thoughts, and experiences. When we become aware of these states we are able to change them.
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Polyvagel theory is incorporated into EMDR and other therapies to focus and explain feelings of safety/threat and the nervous system. Your nervous system is a huge component to overall health and when you’re not doing well, your nervous system reflects your internal state.
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