What is Trauma Informed Care Therapy?
If you’ve been through trauma, you probably know how deeply it can affect your life. It can change how your brain and body respond to stress, make it harder to feel safe in relationships, or leave you feeling disconnected or overwhelmed. Trauma doesn’t need to reach a certain threshold to “count.” What matters is how it has impacted you. Your story is valid, and you deserve care that reflects that.
Many of the people I work with have lived through abuse, violence, combat, medical trauma, or painful relational wounds. Others carry the weight of ongoing stress tied to systemic oppression, like homophobia, transphobia, racism, sexism, ethnocentricity, and ableism, just to name a few. For people in historically marginalized communities, trauma is often not just about individual experiences but about the chronic stress of moving through a world that can feel unsafe or invalidating. This minority stress model helps us understand how this ongoing oppression can lead to higher rates of anxiety, depression, and trauma symptoms in folks in these communities. Naming this matters-because your experiences deserve to be recognized for what they are.
In our work together, we’ll explore how trauma has shown up in your life—whether through personal experiences, generational patterns, or the ways your identities have shaped your story. From there, we’ll build strategies that help you feel grounded and begin processing your trauma at a pace that feels safe and manageable.
Healing is possible. You don’t have to go through it alone, and you deserve a space where every part of who you are is seen and respected.
A Safe Space for Recovery
Who It’s For
People who have experienced trauma-recent or long ago-including physical, emotional, sexual, medical, or institutional trauma
Survivors of family violence, intimate partner violence, or childhood abuse
Individuals with complex trauma (C-PTSD), including those from chronically invalidating or unsafe environments
Queer and trans individuals navigating trauma tied to identity-based discrimination or marginalization
Neurodiverse individuals whose trauma responses may have been misunderstood or pathologized
People who’ve experienced racial, religious, or cultural trauma
Those carrying intergenerational or ancestral trauma
Survivors of systemic or community violence, including incarceration, poverty, or displacement
Anyone struggling with the lasting emotional, relational, or physical effects of trauma-even if you don’t label it as such
Loved ones or family members seeking support in understanding how trauma has affected someone close to them
Common Challenges Addressed
Understanding how trauma has shaped thoughts, behaviors, relationships, and identity
Developing coping strategies to manage trauma symptoms like hypervigilance, dissociation, emotional numbing, or panic
Identifying and navigating trauma triggers in everyday life
Healing from childhood abuse, neglect, or family dysfunction
Processing trauma related to intimate partner violence, sexual violence, or stalking
Reconnecting to the body through somatic awareness, mindfulness, or creative expression
Exploring the impact of medical trauma or experiences of bodily autonomy being violated
Addressing trauma from queerphobia, transphobia, racism, ableism, fatphobia, or other systemic oppressions
Navigating the overlap between neurodiversity and trauma (e.g., sensory trauma, misunderstood behaviors)
Exploring intergenerational trauma and ancestral narratives of survival and resilience
Strengthening relationships impacted by trauma through boundaries, communication, and trust-building
Reclaiming joy, identity, and agency beyond trauma
