Trauma Therapy in St. Augustine, FL

Trauma can shape how you feel, think, and relate to the world — often long after the original experience has passed. You may notice patterns of anxiety, emotional overwhelm, numbness, hypervigilance, or difficulty trusting yourself or others. Trauma therapy offers a supportive space to gently understand these responses and begin restoring a sense of safety and connection.

How Therapy Can Help

Trauma therapy helps you understand how past experiences continue to influence your present life while building tools to feel more grounded and regulated. Therapy can support individuals experiencing:

• PTSD or complex PTSD

• Childhood or developmental trauma

• Relational or attachment trauma

• Medical, birth, or caregiver trauma

• Trauma related to addiction or recovery

I use trauma-informed approaches, including EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing), which can help the brain process traumatic experiences without requiring you to relive them in detail. Together, we work toward reducing the intensity of trauma responses and creating more flexibility and choice in daily life.

What to Expect

Trauma therapy moves at a pace that prioritizes safety, consent, and nervous system regulation. Sessions focus on building stability first, then gently working with patterns or memories as you feel ready.

You can expect a collaborative process that supports insight, emotional regulation, and increased resilience over time. The goal is not to erase the past, but to help it hold less power over your present and future.

My Approach

My approach to trauma therapy is collaborative, grounded, and deeply respectful of each person’s lived experience. I integrate evidence-informed methods including EMDR, trauma-informed CBT, and DBT-informed skills, with a relational and compassionate lens.

Therapy is paced to feel supportive rather than overwhelming, with attention to both emotional patterns and the nervous system. Change happens gradually, as safety, understanding, and self-trust are rebuilt.

I offer in-person trauma therapy for adults and adolescents in St. Augustine and online/virtual counseling.

To learn more about trauma and one evidence-informed approach often used in treatment, you can visit the EMDR International Association.