Trauma & Attachment Therapy
Heal unresolved trauma and attachment wounds from your childhood.
Are you dealing with unresolved trauma, attachment wounds, or relationship patterns that feel hard to change? Do your relationships feel intense, overwhelming, or hard to trust—even when you want closeness? Do you feel stuck in patterns of intense anxiety, shutdown, or emotional reactivity that don’t fully make sense—or feel rooted in experiences you haven’t fully processed?
Trauma and early attachment experiences shape how we relate to ourselves, others, and the world. Trauma therapy helps you understand not just what happened—but how it continues to live in your body, nervous system, and relationships
They also live in the body—not just in thoughts or memories. In our work, we’ll move at a pace that feels safe and supportive, helping you understand how your nervous system responds to connection, stress, and vulnerability. Using an integrative approach of trauma-informed therapy, attachment theory, polyvagal theory, emotion-focused therapy (EFT), and parts work (Internal Family Systems), I help you gently process past experiences at a pace that feels safe, while building new ways of relating in the present with yourself and in your relationships. We focus on nervous system regulation, emotional processing, and building a sense of internal safety.
We’ll work with the parts of you that learned to protect, avoid, or stay hyper-aware—and begin to create more space for safety, connection, and regulation. This approach isn’t about reliving the past—it’s about helping your system feel safe enough to experience something different now.
This work can help with PTSD, complex trauma, childhood trauma, healing from abuse, and attachment issues (whether they impacts you individually, in your relationships, or both!), allowing you to feel more secure, connected, and in control of your emotional responses.
If you’re searching for trauma therapy or attachment-focused therapy in Portland, Oregon, or help with emotional regulation and healing past wounds, this approach supports deep, lasting healing.
Understand How Your Childhood Impacted You
Feel More Connected in Your Relationships
Build Insight & Improve Emotional Expression
Commonly Asked Questions
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You don’t have to be in crisis to benefit from therapy. Many people reach out because they feel anxious, overwhelmed, emotionally stuck, or disconnected—from themselves or others. If you’ve been carrying something alone, repeating the same patterns, or feeling like things should be better but aren’t, therapy can help you understand what’s going on and begin to shift it.
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Therapy can support you with anxiety, depression, burnout, emotional overwhelm, relationship challenges, and difficulty understanding or expressing your feelings. It’s also helpful if you tend to overthink, shut down, people-please, or feel disconnected from yourself. Our work focuses not just on symptoms, but on the deeper patterns and emotional experiences driving them.
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Sessions are a space for you to slow down and explore what you’re experiencing in a more intentional way. We’ll talk, but we’ll also pay attention to emotions, patterns, and even what’s happening in your body. Using approaches like parts work (IFS), attachment-focused therapy, and somatic awareness, you’ll begin to understand why you feel and react the way you do—and how to respond differently.
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Both. You’ll gain practical tools for managing anxiety, regulating emotions, and navigating relationships—but those tools are grounded in deeper understanding. Instead of quick fixes, we focus on helping you create lasting change by working with the underlying emotional patterns, not just the surface behaviors.
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Some people feel relief within the first few sessions simply from having space to process and feel understood. More meaningful, lasting change—like shifting long-standing patterns or healing attachment wounds—takes more time. We’ll move at a pace that feels supportive, not overwhelming, and check in regularly about what’s working for you.
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That’s more common than you might think. Not all therapy approaches are the same, and the relationship with your clinician matters. If previous therapy felt too surface-level, too vague and focused on reflecting back your feelings when you want to turn that into real change in your life, a deeper, emotion-focused and experiential approach may feel different.
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That’s completely okay. You don’t need to come in with a clear plan. Part of the work is learning how to notice and name what’s happening internally. We can start with what feels most present—stress, numbness, overthinking—and gently explore from there.
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Yes. Feeling shut down, numb, or disconnected is often a protective response, not a failure. Therapy helps you reconnect with your emotional experience safely and gradually, so you can feel more present, engaged, and alive in your life and relationships.
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No. Therapy is a collaborative, non-judgmental space. My role isn’t to tell you what choices to make, but to help you understand yourself more clearly—your emotions, your patterns, and your needs—so you can make decisions that feel aligned and grounded.
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My work is rooted in Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), Internal Family Systems (IFS), and attachment-based approaches. That means we focus on your emotional world, your internal “parts,” and the relational patterns you’ve developed over time. We also integrate somatic mindfulness, helping you tune into your body as part of the healing process—not just your thoughts.
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Only at a pace that feels right for you. Sometimes understanding your past helps make sense of present patterns, but we always stay grounded in what feels safe and relevant. You’re never pushed to go somewhere you’re not ready to go.
If you’re considering individual therapy, you don’t have to have everything figured out first. Reaching out is simply a starting point—a way to explore what’s possible for your emotional and mental health and how fulfilling life and relationships can be with the right support.
You’re not broken—and you’re not stuck by accident.
The patterns you’re experiencing in your relationships, emotions, and life made sense at one point. Therapy is about understanding those patterns and creating new ways of relating— to yourself and others.