Trauma Focused Therapy
If you have experienced trauma, you might feel like you have lost connection with yourself, your sense of safety, and your sensuality. You might leave your body, experience painful memories during sex, or feel shame and guilt around your body and sensuality. You may be seeking therapy because you want to move beyond survival. You want to reclaim your relationship with pleasure and sex. You want to feel safety in your body. You want to honor your voice, your boundaries, and your desires.
In trauma focused therapy, you will be supported in addressing sexual concerns in a safe, trauma-informed space. Through somatic, mindfulness, and self-compassion approaches, you will be empowered to connect with your own wisdom, healing, and authentic sexual expression.
What we can address
Sexual trauma
Infertility and birth trauma
Incarceration trauma
Reducing dissociation during sex
Increasing a sense of safety and embodiment
Developing self-compassion
Releasing shame, guilt, and other internalized trauma messages
Sexual pleasure after trauma
Increasing empowerment
Reconnecting with your voice and your true self
Moving from survival to thriving and flourishing after trauma
How we can meet your goals
Mindfulness: Through mindfulness practices, you will become empowered to notice when you are experiencing difficult emotions, thoughts, or trauma related messages. You will develop concrete tools to help you reconnect with your body, wise mind, and sense of safety. We will also explore trauma-informed mindfulness practices to support you on your sexual healing and relationship with your sensuality.
Somatic and embodiment practices: Trauma can impact our sense of safety in our bodies, creating feelings of panic, dissociation, anger, and shame when activated. Through somatic and embodiment practices, you will feel safer and more grounded in your body.
Self-compassion skills: Feelings of guilt, shame, and self-judgment can be common experiences after trauma. Research has shown that self-compassion can be a powerful tool for these difficult emotions and for trauma healing. In therapy, you will be able to connect with your self-compassion, developing more kindness, softness, and understanding for yourself and your trauma responses.
Sex therapy: Trauma focused sex therapy can support your sexual healing through an embodied and empowered approach. We can address specific sexual concerns like pain or difficulty with erections or orgasms, as well as strategies to help you feel more pleasure, safety, fulfillment, and joy around your sexuality.
My approach
Empowerment: I will check in with you throughout our work together to make sure that you are feeling comfortable, empowered, and supported. I will respect your boundaries and work with you at your own pace.
Safety: Through a collaborative, affirming, and trauma-informed therapy environment, you will be supported in connecting with your sense of safety. This creates a space for you to deepen your healing and connect with your sensuality and body.
Embodiment: I will support you in connecting with your body somatically, reclaiming your sensuality and pleasure, and trusting your body’s inner wisdom.