Trauma
Safe, paced, trauma-informed therapy in Vancouver — for the patterns, reactions, and numbness that took root long before now.
Sound familiar?
You may not always connect it to the past — but your body and your reactions remember.
Maybe you're always scanning for danger, or you go numb and shut down when things get close. Trust is hard. You might swing between feeling too much and feeling nothing, find yourself repeating relationships that hurt, or struggle to even name what you feel. You've coped — by people-pleasing, staying busy, keeping everyone at a careful distance.
None of that makes you broken. They're the strategies that once kept you safe.
What's underneath
Trauma isn't only about what happened; it's about what your nervous system learned in order to survive it. Hypervigilance, shutdown, mistrust — these were intelligent adaptations to situations that genuinely weren't safe. The difficulty is that they keep firing long after the danger has passed.
I work from the belief that nothing about you is broken. Your responses are the logical result of what you lived through, and they can change as safety is slowly relearned.
How I work
Safety and pace come first — always. I won't ask you to retell anything before you're ready, and we'll build enough steadiness and trust before going toward the harder material. You set the speed, every step of the way.
I'm trained in EMDR and AEDP and work in a trauma-informed, relational way. I'm also in no hurry to diagnose you or fit you into a box — you're a whole person to me, your hopes and passions as much as your wounds. Often the early work is simply a steady, attuned presence — someone to settle alongside while your system slowly learns it's allowed to rest.
Where this leads
Healing rarely means the past disappears. It means it stops gripping the present so tightly. Clients find more safety in their bodies, more room to trust, a stronger voice for their own needs, and relationships that no longer follow the old painful script. And if you can't hold much hope for yourself yet, that's okay; I'll hold it for you until you can.
Book a free 20-minute consult — a low-pressure way to see if we're a good fit, with no expectation to share more than you want to.
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