Start Healing From Within
Navigating Early Childhood, Developmental Trauma & Attachment
In my 21 years of working in inpatient and outpatient settings I have had extensive experience in learning about and working with childhood wounds. In my past I have seen, many of my client’s deepest wounds don’t come from a single, catastrophic event. Instead, I have seen that they are built over time during our formative years—through environments where our emotional needs were consistently unmet, misunderstood, or minimized. This is characterized as developmental or relational trauma.
Based on my extensive experience the way I see it, if you grew up feeling invisible, hyper-responsible, or constantly walking on eggshells, those survival strategies don’t just disappear when you become an adult. For most people, these issues often follow you into the present, showing up as:
- Chronic people-pleasing and difficulty setting boundaries.
- An intense fear of abandonment or rejection in relationships.
- An inability to trust others, leading to hyper-independence (“I have to do everything myself”).
- A persistent, harsh inner critic that tells you you’re never enough.
- Feeling disconnected from your body, your emotions, or your true self.
My Approach
- Deep, Lasting Healing
In my opinion relational wounds require a specialized and deeper approach. My strategy is to focus on rewriting the internal scripts written in your early experiences through a combination of evidence-based, trauma-informed modalities.
- Inner Child Healing
The “inner child” isn’t just a metaphor; it represents the very real, sub-conscious part of your mind that still carries the hurts, fears, and unmet needs of your past. Together working with me, I will help you connect with this part of yourself. We can explore and begin to release the old burdens of shame, guilt, and inadequacy, while acknowledging the pain your younger self carried over the years.
- Reparenting Work
What I have seen again and again is when the adults around us couldn’t provide the emotional safety, validation, or structure we needed, we learned to cope in survival mode. Reparenting is the gentle, transformative process of learning to give yourself what you didn’t receive in childhood. Working with me, you will learn how to show up as the safe, compassionate, and firm adult your inner child always needed—anchoring yourself in self-leadership.
- Attachment-Focused Therapy
My work focuses on exploring your earliest relationships as they form the blueprint for how we give and receive love and form relationships as an adult. If your early environment was unpredictable or emotionally distant, you may carry an anxious, avoidant, or disorganized attachment style. We work to shift these patterns toward earned secure attachment, helping you build relationships rooted in safety, clear communication, and mutual respect.
What to Expect in Our Sessions
Healing childhood wounds takes time, patience, and a deeply safe environment. In our work together, we will:
- Establish Safety First: We move at your pace. We will never push you to explore memories or emotions before your nervous system is ready.
- De-shame Your Past: You will learn that your current struggles are not personality flaws; they are brilliant, adaptive survival mechanisms that simply aren’t serving you anymore.
- Build Practical Tools: You’ll gain somatic and cognitive tools to soothe anxiety, manage emotional flashbacks, and parent yourself through moments of distress.
- Transform Your Present: As the past loses its grip, you will find yourself naturally making choices aligned with your authentic self, enjoying healthier relationships, and experiencing a quiet, steady inner peace.
“You cannot change the past, but you can change how the past lives inside of you.”
Ready to Take the First Step?
The fact that you are here, looking for answers, means a part of you is already fighting for your healing. You don’t have to carry the weight of your childhood environment forever.