Not your average
trauma therapy.

We are all one thing! Trauma and chronic pain can be deeply connected. When your nervous system has spent a long time protecting you, it can become very good at continuing to be your bodyguard, even when the original danger is gone.

Therapy can help us work with stress, trauma, fear, and protective patterns that may no longer be serving you. In addition to decreased pain, many people say they also experience better sleep, improved digestion, increased energy, and decreased reactivity.

Your pain is real. We’re not here to convince you it’s “all in your head” (hard pass). We’re helping your body understand how to rest.

I know you’re probably not looking for another list of things you “should” be doing.

Not having a clear medical explanation does not mean your pain isn’t real. Many people find their way to this work after years of specialists, treatments, exercises, medications, scans, and extremely well-intentioned people asking whether they’ve tried yoga. Pain involves the brain and body together, and separating it into “physical” versus “psychological” can create a false divide.

If you’re like me, you’ve had plenty of professionals tell you that your complaint is “normal,” but your intuition knows you aren’t living fully. You deserve someone who hears you and believes in your deep healing. We don’t need to know where your pain comes from to work with it.

No. Of course, less pain would be lovely! But recovery can also mean thinking about your body less, doing things you’ve been afraid to do, reconnecting with people, moving differently, traveling again, or even not waiting the whole day to lay back in bed.

The goal is not a perfect body.

It’s a bigger life.

Brainspotting is a brain- and body-based therapy that uses where you look to help access and process experiences held outside of ordinary conscious awareness. Brainspotting’s tagline is: “Where you look affects how you feel.” It sounds a little weird until you experience it.

With chronic pain, we may use Brainspotting to work with trauma, fear around symptoms, body memories, emotional stress, or protective responses connected to pain. You don’t have to perfectly explain what’s happening for us to work with it. Healing can happen without perfect words or understanding.

Nope!

You don’t need to have a specific traumatic event, or even identify with the word trauma, for trauma therapy or trauma-informed coaching to be helpful. Sometimes what we’re working with is chronic stress, relationship wounds, painful experiences, anxiety, patterns you can’t seem to change, or ways your brain and body learned to protect you a long time ago.

My work is less about whether you qualify for a particular label and more about understanding what your system has learned and creating a life with more joy and less stress.

I hear this all the time, and I’ve been there too. Talk therapy helped me understand myself and manage (and maybe even hide) my problems better, but I still wanted something to actually change.

I’ve experienced firsthand how this work can create powerful internal shifts that show up in your external world. My relationships improved, my life became more exciting, I had less to complain about, and I genuinely felt happier and more energetic.

All without another list of “tools!”

The first session is about getting to know you, what’s bringing you in, and what you’d like to be different. You don’t need to show up with a perfectly formed agenda, tell me your entire life story, or know exactly what kind of therapy you need. If it feels appropriate, we may even try a little trauma work and resourcing. If you’re new to trauma work, I’ll explain what we’re doing as we go. And if you’ve done therapy before, we can talk about what worked, what didn’t, and what you’d like to be different this time.

The first session is also a chance to see how working together feels. If it’s not the right fit, that’s completely okay. There’s no pressure to continue, and I can help you figure out what might be a better fit.

Therapy and coaching can look similar, but they are different services. In therapy, we can work deeply with trauma, mental health, relationships, chronic pain, and the patterns that keep showing up in your life. I offer therapy to clients throughout Colorado.

Coaching is for people who want to understand themselves better, get unstuck from old patterns, and create meaningful change in their lives. We might explore relationships, boundaries, self-trust, confidence, goals, or the ways you tend to get in your own way. My coaching is informed by the same brain-body, nervous system, and parts-based perspectives that shape my therapeutic work, but coaching is not therapy or mental health treatment.

If you live outside of Colorado and want to work with me, coaching may be an option. We can talk about what you’re looking for and whether it’s the right fit.

Find someone you feel comfortable with! One of the most important predictors of progress in therapy is the relationship you have with your therapist.

You might not feel connected right away or immediately love everything they say, but a good fit can feel like being understood, comfortable enough to be honest, and like you’re working toward something that actually matters to you.

I’ve had people feel better after one session, and I’ve also had clients meet with me consistently for years. There is no magic number of sessions for trauma therapy. You are in charge of your therapy. We can work together until you feel relief, or until you’re ready to take a break and integrate all the newness into your life.

I typically recommend starting with weekly or every-other-week sessions, depending on your needs, schedule, and financial situation. Meeting more consistently can help build momentum, especially in the beginning. As you start meeting your goals, we can space sessions out to once a month or simply meet as needed.

Online and in-person therapy each have their own benefits. While some body language can be missed online, many people feel more comfortable in their own space, which can actually deepen processing.

Online Brainspotting also allows me to give my favorite homework: finding an eye position that makes you feel good! You can use it between sessions to continue increasing things like confidence, joy, creativity, focus and performance, and even your sense of your Truest Self.

I offer online therapy throughout Colorado, so you can do deep work without adding Denver traffic to your healing journey. I also work with coaching clients throughout the United States and internationally, with coaching informed by many of the same principles that shape my therapeutic work.

My session rate is $175. The only insurance I currently accept is Colorado Access Medicaid, which allows me to support a population I feel passionate about.

Working outside of health insurance allows me to support deep, individualized healing rather than shaping treatment around diagnosis codes and corporate session limits. Our work is shaped by your needs.