Trauma Therapy in New York
You’ve learned how to survive. But surviving is exhausting.
You’ve built a life. You function, you show up, you hold things together. And yet something from back then keeps slipping into your right now, in your relationships, your body, the way you react before you’ve even had a chance to think.
- You find yourself bracing for something to go wrong, even on the quietest days, scanning, waiting, never fully at ease.
- You shut down when things get too close, or react in ways that surprise even you, and then spend hours trying to understand why.
- You’ve gotten good at minimizing it, “other people had it worse,” but your body didn’t get the memo.
- There’s a part of you that’s tired. Not just of the hard things, but of carrying them alone for so long.
You’re not broken, and you’re not too much. You’re someone who went through something real and learned to protect yourself the only way you knew how.
Trauma isn’t just a memory. It lives in the nervous system, in the patterns you fall into, in the parts of you still trying to keep you safe frommething that already happened. Healing means helping those parts finally rest.
I work with trauma using IFS (Internal Family Systems), somatic approaches, and EFIT (Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy), a framework rooted in attachment science that helps you understand how your earliest experiences of connection and safety shaped who you became. Together, these approaches allow us to work with the whole of you, your mind, your body, and the parts of you that learned to cope long before you had any other choice.
Here’s how our work together unfolds:
Awareness:
Track what’s happening with curiosity, not judgment.
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We slow down and get curious about your patterns: the ways you shut down, brace, or react before you’ve even had a chance to think. This isn’t analysis. It’s the first act of compassion toward yourself.
Exploration:
Reach the pain underneath the protection.
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Beneath the patterns lives something older, a fear, a wound, a part of you still waiting to be seen. Using IFS and EFIT, we approach it gently, and only as far as feels safe.
Realignment:
Create a new way of moving through the world.
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As the old protections soften, we build something steadier in their place, using somatic work to help your nervous system feel it, not just understand it.
Healing doesn’t mean erasing what happened. It means it stops defining who you are.
What becomes possible with Trauma Therapy:
- Reactions that finally feel proportionate to what’s actually happening in front of you, not what happened years ago.
- A body that feels like yours again, not something to manage or override.
- Relationships where closeness doesn’t automatically trigger the urge to disappear or defend.
- A quieter inner world, where the parts of you that worked so hard to protect you can finally soften.
You don’t have to keep holding this alone. And you don’t have to go back through everything that happened to begin moving forward.
Something in you already knows it’s time.
I offer a free consultation, a conversation where you can ask questions, get a sense of what working together might feel like, and decide whether this space feels right for you.
In-person sessions available in Brooklyn, NY. Telehealth available across New York State.
Trauma is not defined only by major life-threatening events. It can also include experiences that left you feeling overwhelmed, unsafe, unseen, unsupported, or deeply hurt.
Trauma can impact trust, emotional connection, communication, boundaries, and how safe you feel with others. Many people notice these effects long after the original experiences have passed.
No. Therapy moves at a pace that feels safe and manageable. Building safety and trust is an important part of the healing process.
Many people have limited memories of difficult experiences. Therapy does not require perfect recall in order to explore how past experiences may still be affecting you today.
While the past cannot be changed, healing is possible. Therapy can help reduce the impact trauma has on your present life, relationships, and sense of self.
Trauma responses often operate outside of conscious awareness. Therapy can help you understand these patterns with compassion and create new ways of relating to yourself and others.