Specialties

Generational Trauma

Breaking Cycles. Reclaiming Your Story.

Generational trauma refers to the transmission of unhealed pain, stress, and coping patterns from one generation to the next.

These experiences, often rooted in historical or familial adversity, can shape beliefs, behaviors, and relationships long after the original events occurred.

The impact may surface as anxiety, difficulty with trust, perfectionism, or feeling responsible for carrying more than your share.

While these effects can be far-reaching, there is power in breaking these cycles. Healing creates space for healthier patterns, greater self-understanding, and change for both the you and future generations.

Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents

You Were the Grown-Up Long Before You Should’ve Been.

If you grew up with a parent who was emotionally unavailable, reactive, or unable to truly see or support you, you may still carry resentment, anger, guilt, difficulty setting boundaries, difficulty trusting yourself, feeling responsible for everyone else’s emotions, fear of abandonment, or loneliness.

Emotionally immature parents may have been:

Dismissive of your feelings or needs
Easily overwhelmed or unpredictable
Focused on themselves – leaving little room for your inner world
Loving in some ways, but unable to offer real emotional safety

You deserve to reclaim your right to have needs, feelings, and limits to cultivate a healthy, loving, nurturing relationship with yourself and others.

Childhood Trauma

From Surviving Childhood to Thriving as an Adult

Childhood trauma occurs when overwhelming or distressing experiences—such as neglect, abuse, loss, or instability—impact a child’s sense of safety and well-being. Because children are still developing emotionally and physically, these experiences often leave lasting imprints on how they see themselves, others, and the world.

These effects may not always appear right away. For many, childhood trauma can show up later in life as:

Anxiety, depression, guilt, shame, difficulty managing emotions
Perfectionism, people-pleasing, self-sabotage, risky behaviors, withdrawal from others
Difficulty trusting, fear of abandonment, codependency, conflict in relationships
Headaches, digestive issues, chronic fatigue, chronic stress responses
Intrusive memories, hypervigilance, trouble concentrating, negative self-beliefs (“I’m not enough,” “I’m a burden”)

By understanding how early experiences continue to influence your present, together we can work on developing new ways of coping, building healthier relationships, and move from surviving to living.

Complex or Single-Event Trauma

It Doesn’t Have to Be “Big” to Be Real.

Trauma isn’t just what happened – it’s what happened inside you as a result. It is not defined by the size of the event, but by the impact it had on your sense of safety, trust, or self.

Single-Event Trauma may stem from a specific incident and has an identifiable start point – like an accident, loss, assault, or medical emergency – that impacted your nervous system stuck in fear, shock, or helplessness.

Complex Trauma often comes from repeated, ongoing, or relational wounds – like emotional neglect, unstable caregiving, chronic criticism, or growing up in an environment where you had to stay small to stay safe. Unlike single-event trauma, time becomes difficult to identify with complex trauma.

Trauma can live in the body as:

Hypervigilance, shutdown, or emotional numbness
Difficulty trusting others or feeling safe in relationships
A harsh inner critic or fear of being “too much”
Shame, guilt, or a sense that something is wrong with you
Patterns of people-pleasing, avoidance, or self-abandonment

Relationship Patterns

If You Keep Ending Up In The Same Kind of Relationship – It’s Not Random. It’s A Pattern.

We don’t just “choose the wrong people” or “attract drama”. We often repeat what’s familiar – even if it’s painful. Relationship patterns are shaped by your earliest emotional experiences:

Who you had to be to feel loved
What you had to suppress to stay safe
Where your needs were too much – or not enough

Healing starts with awareness – and the courage to try something new.