Absolutely. You don't need to be falling apart to benefit from therapy. Many of the people I work with are high-functioning — they show up for everyone in their lives, hold it together at work, and look fine from the outside. But beneath the surface there's a persistent anxiety, a numbness, a sense of going through the motions, or a feeling that something essential is missing.

You don't need a diagnosis. You don't need a dramatic story. You just need to sense that something could be different — and be willing to explore that. That's more than enough to begin.

This work doesn't require any prior therapy experience and you don't need to have exhausted other options before coming here. Many people come having never been in therapy before. Others come after years of therapy that didn't reach far enough. Both are equally welcome starting points.

If you're currently working with another therapist and want to add somatic or depth-oriented work alongside that as adjunctive work, that's also possible. I'm happy to discuss what that might look like during a consultation. What matters most is that the support you have around you is actually serving your healing.

Somatic Experiencing (SE) is a body-based trauma therapy developed by Dr. Peter Levine. Unlike traditional talk therapy, SE focuses on releasing trapped survival energy in the nervous system caused by traumatic experiences. Through gentle attention to bodily sensations, we help your nervous system complete and discharge stuck fight, flight, or freeze responses. This supports regulation, reduces trauma symptoms, and restores a renewed sense of safety and connection.

Post Induction Therapy (PIT) is a specialized therapeutic model developed by Pia Mellody that helps adults heal from the relational wounds of childhood — things like neglect, abandonment, enmeshment, or abuse — and the codependency patterns those wounds create in adulthood.

Many of us grew up in environments where our emotional needs weren't consistently met, where limits were crossed, or where we learned to prioritize others over ourselves. Those early adaptations shape how we relate to ourselves and others long into adulthood — often in ways that cause real pain. PIT helps you understand where those patterns came from, feel what you weren't able to feel then, and build the capacity to live and love differently.

This work is especially helpful for people struggling with codependency, people-pleasing, difficulty setting limits, low self-worth, or feeling responsible for other people's emotions.

I combine Somatic Experiencing with Post Induction Therapy because trauma lives both in the body and in our relational patterns. SE helps your nervous system feel safe enough to engage in the deeper work of PIT, which addresses how childhood experiences shaped the way you relate to yourself and others. Together, they support both physiological regulation and meaningful change in your relationships.

PIT and IFS share some overlapping concepts — both work with inner parts and both recognize that self-states formed in response to early wounding. PIT is specifically rooted in Pia Mellody's codependency framework and emphasizes the five core symptoms, reparenting, and the development of a functional adult self-state. It is also more explicitly somatic in its approach, which is why it pairs so naturally with Somatic Experiencing — we can work with the body and the inner child simultaneously. I may draw on elements of IFS when it serves the work, but PIT is the primary framework I use for relational trauma and codependency.

Many of my clients have spent years in talk therapy and still feel stuck. That's not because they're doing anything wrong—it's because trauma isn't just stored in our memories. It lives in our nervous systems as unfinished survival responses. Talk therapy helps us understand what happened, but Somatic Experiencing helps our bodies complete the fight, flight, or freeze responses that got interrupted during the traumatic event. This is why someone can intellectually understand their trauma but still feel anxious, numb, or unsafe in their body. SE works with the physiology directly, which is often where the real blockage is.