PTSD & Trauma Therapy & Counseling in Asheville

Also offering online therapy for people living in California

You are determined to build a good life for yourself and most days you feel proud of what you are accomplishing. But there are times when everything feels like it is spiraling down and you are barely holding it together.  

You feel stressed, worried, lonely, and irritable a lot. And when you’re not hyper-stressed, you feel checked out or numb or sad. Your body has reactions that come out of nowhere and you feel like you are spinning out. The way that you feel is confusing and you can be really hard on yourself. There is a soundtrack of self-criticism that plays in your head and you tell yourself things like, “I am unworthy,” or “I am unlovable,” or “good things just are not for me.”  This negative voice keeps you from being present with people, making decisions, or manifesting your dreams.

BEING A HUMAN IS MESSY – LET’S HELP YOU FIND THE FREEDOM IN THAT

What is Trauma & PTSD?

Trauma results from any life experiences where your basic sense of safety, security, stability, and dignity was threatened. This could mean a one-time scary event like experiencing or witnessing an assault or automobile crash. Or trauma can be the insidious ongoing abusive dynamics that happen in childhood, families, couples, the workplace, or society (like emotional or psychological abuse -or- racism/ homophobia/ transphobia/ fatphobia). Trauma is how these experiences live in your body and mind after the scary things have passed. If you would like to learn more, please click here to read my blog What No One Tell You About Trauma where I explain more about complex trauma.

Heal your past, live as your fierce self

How I work with Trauma & PTSD in Asheville

I am a trauma specialist and EMDR therapist in Asheville and the first and most important part of trauma therapy is to establish safety in the therapy relationship. I work to create a transparent and collaborative process where you set the pace for the therapy. I will partner with you to help you discover your internal wisdom and repurpose the skills that were once the key to your survival but now are holding you back. I use highly effective and well-researched trauma treatment interventions like EMDR, (click here to learn more about EMDR) and Internal Family Systems (IFS). EMDR and IFS therapies not only heal trauma so that the unpleasant symptoms go away but help to transform the trauma so that it becomes a source of resilience and fierceness.

As we work together, my hope is that you’ll:

• Feel less triggered

• Develop many ways to cope with the difficult things that come up

• Feel less overwhelmed and stressed

• Feel grounded, present, and at ease

• Have more joy and less depression

• Feel less angry and improve anger management

• Feel empowered in your relationships

• See more possibilities for your life

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My Trauma and PTSD Therapy Location 

My office is located in Asheville. I also am only offering Telehealth/ virtual sessions for people living in California. I serve clients and in the surrounding Western North Carolina, including Weaverville, Hendersonville, Arden, Candler, Fairview, Leicester, and Swannanoa.

I offer virtual therapy services to residents of North Carolina and California.