Trauma-informed therapy for Expanding Relational Capacity
North Carolina
South Carolina
Trauma-informed therapy to support authenticy, ease loneliness, and build connection, belonging, and confidence.
Feeling disconnected from one’s own sense of self and body, from others, from community, from the natural world, can lead us to feel empty, aching and traumatized. Navigating the processes of rupture and repair that lead to healing - and let us reconnect with ourselves and others - can facilitate us feeling safer in our relationships and lives. I believe we all have the right to joy, rest, connection, love, and community care and I’d like to help you access those things in your own life. I want to help support you in building a life that feels nourishing - however you define that for yourself! Nobody knows your life better than you do!
You’re in the right place.
Here are just a few things we might talk about in our time together:
Building Capacity for Secure Attachment
Humans are inherently social and interdependent creatures. We need each other to survive! When we have experiences in our childhood that lack emotional attunement or a deep felt sense of trust that our needs will matter and be prioritized, these experiences can shape patterns in how we perceive intimacy, trust, vulnerability, and connection throughout our lives. This can make for some pretty rocky emotional territory in our adult relationships!
The good thing is that even if you have some pretty engrained patterns of relating that pitch you into intense feelings of anxiety or avoidance in the face of real, perceived, or anticipated conflict in your relationships, you can learn and practice new skills that help you ride out the emotional storm within. You can strengthen the muscles that allow you to connect more authentically and build a felt sense of safety and trust in your relationships! I’ll help you do it.
Navigating Conflict in Relationships
In our work together you’ll develop the tools you need to be able to weather rupture and repair in relationships. Everyone’s relational toolbox might be a little bit different, but in yours you might find effective communication skills, increased tolerance for uncertainty, better emotion regulation and psychological flexibility, a clearer sense of your core values and needs, attunement to your own desires, a more grounded feeling in your own body, and the ability to balance autonomy and connection.
Non-normative Structures of Relating
(non-monogamy in all its forms)
You practice non-monogamy, polyamory, or relationship anarchy. You need a therapist well-versed in what it is to love and connect in an open and liberating way. When the relationship structures and agreements we strive for don’t match the bulk of what we witness around us, it can be extra hard to figure out how to navigate it well. Maybe your values tell you one thing, but your nervous system struggles to walk the walk.
Maybe your toolbox of skills for loving well is already robust, but it still feels hard to navigate the nuance and specificity of your relationships because, well, it can be tough to be a human being, and navigating relationships always carries some challenges. I’ll help you muck through the messiness, get really clear how you want to show up in relationships, and then put that desire into action!
