TRAUMA THERAPY FOR WOMEN IN boise, ID AND VIRTUALLY THROUGHOUT IDAHO AND CALIFORNIA
Let’s rewrite relationship patterns shaped by unresolved trauma.
A healing space for women with trauma-informed connection struggles.
It’s incredible to think about how impactful unresolved trauma can be on the quality of your current and important relationships. The way trauma leaves you feeling in your body can result in fear of vulnerability, which affects intimacy levels. It can leave you unable to trust others, even when you're shown reliability and sincerity from someone. Perhaps healthy attachment feels difficult because you’re anticipating potential threats or betrayal. Avoidance of physical or emotional closeness, self-sabotage in your relationships, and an intense fear of abandonment are all things you may be experiencing and are all things that can result from past trauma, whether it was relational trauma or not.
Difficulties in your relationships stemming from past trauma can have a real impact on your daily life. Emotional stress and anxiety can make it difficult to focus on daily tasks and a preoccupation with relationship stress can affect work and/or school performance. It can contribute to parenting issues and possible feelings of guilt and inadequacy. Self perception and self care can also take a hit. Physical issues, sleep disruption, social isolation, not taking part in once enjoyable activities or hobbies, and relying on only yourself are all symptoms of being in strained relationships resulting from past trauma.
After living with unresolved trauma, you deserve repair and lasting
restoration for your most important relationships.
Imagine feeling real authenticity within yourself and in your closest relationships. Think about the security within yourself and the safety, the connection you could enjoy with your most important people after real healing within you could occur. Imagine loosening the grip of your past and allowing courage and confidence to lead your interactions with loved ones. You deserve to feel safe in emotional expression and to managing stressors and conflicts more effectively and with resilience.
I use a variety of therapeutic approaches and match your needs with the most effective methods. Drawing from my education, formal training, clinical work, and life experiences, I turn primarily to Brainspotting (Certified), as well as EMDR; Eye-movement desensitization and reprocessing therapy, TF-CBT; Trauma focused cognititve behavioral therapy, Trauma-Sensitive HeartMath with Biofeedback, EFT; Emotionally focused therapy, CBT; Cognitive behavioral therapy, ACT; Acceptance and commitment therapy, and Mindfulness therapy.
Therapy for trauma-informed relationship issues can help you ….
Enjoy secure attachments
Increase emotional and physical intimacy
Improve communication
Successfully establish and hold boundaries
Enhance your ability to emotionally regulate
Nurture positive self perception
Regain a sense of control of both your life and your relationship quality
Embrace healthy vulnerability
. . . and more!
Trauma-Informed Relationship Issues FAQs
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A: The simple answer is, if you want your relationships to improve, you start with yourself. Together, we’ll look at how your unique trauma responses could be affecting your ability to really connect with others. We can look at communication styles and how reactive or dissociated you feel within interactions. We can assess your level of self awareness in order to work towards more honest and open interactions. We can also look at your boundary effectiveness, stress management, and emotional attunement. A focus on your healing, personal growth, and positive change can seep into the quality of your relationships for more fulfilled and healthier interactions overall.
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A: Trauma may be universal, but it’s also very individual and affects your whole person - your nervous system, your immune response, every part of your physiology in a very unique way. The first step towards healing is knowing what you’re dealing with and identifying the unresolved trauma and then how it changes who you are when you’re in the presence of others. That’s where the specific relationship challenges come to light. Looking at who you are and how you feel when with others. How you cope and how that coping - which is typically not adaptive - can be addressed and healed.
Brainspotting for Trauma-
Informed Relationship Issues
Brainspotting is an advanced brain-body therapy that focuses on identifying, processing, and releasing imbalances, trauma, and residual emotional stress. It is based on the premise that ‘where you look affects how you feel’ and finds that eye positions correlate with unconscious, emotional experiences.
It reaches parts of the brain that are not generally accessed through traditional talk therapy approaches. Click below to learn more about this innovative and effective approach to trauma healing.
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