Where I learned this work

For four years I worked inside the New Jersey prison system, treating people with histories of severe childhood adversity: physical, emotional, and psychological violence, abuse, and neglect that began long before they could speak. It was one of the most meaningful educations a trauma therapist could receive, and it left me with two convictions I've never let go of.

The first: There is no story too dark to sit with, and no story too 'small' to matter. The people who trusted me with their stories taught me a profound respect for the human spirit in the face of adversity. Their resilience drives me every day.

The second: Insight alone rarely heals. I've watched people who understood their trauma perfectly remain trapped inside it. Understanding happens in our thinking minds; the imprint of trauma lives deep in the survival circuitry of our nervous systems.

That's why I trained in Somatic Experiencing: I found that talk therapy alone often couldn't reach the wordless places where suffering lives. SE gives us a way in. It is gentle, titrated, and grounded in the body's own wisdom. I became a certified Somatic Experiencing Practitioner in 2023, after a three-year post-graduate training, and it changed the questions I ask. I want to know what happened to you, yes, but most of all, I want to know what your body still believes is happening.

Today, my practice serves adults who've built full, capable, often impressive lives on top of painful histories: High achievers, caretakers, the ones everyone else counts on, who are tired of holding it together with willpower alone.