Trauma and Psychoanalysis
Trauma therapy can offer a careful and steady space to work through painful experiences that may continue to shape how you feel, relate, protect yourself, and move through the world.
In my work, I support people in exploring childhood trauma, complex PTSD, intergenerational trauma, social and collective trauma, religious trauma, and the trauma of sexual abuse and domestic violence. These experiences can live not only in memory, but also in the body, in relationships, in family patterns, in cultural belonging, and in the ways we come to understand ourselves.
Our goal is to collaboratively work together to achieve deep and enduring growth. At a steady pace, we will create a safe space to bring light to the parts of yourself that have been hurt, ignored, or kept hidden. Healing happens through speaking the unspoken parts of you that were left alone or silenced. This process isn’t about striving for flawlessness or erasing suffering. Rather, it focuses on steadily recovering your authentic voice, your passions, and your ability to thrive and enjoy life, all while developing a gentler, more forgiving approach to navigating life’s inevitable losses and constraints.
A Depth-Oriented and Embodied Approach
My approach to trauma therapy is in-depth, psychoanalytically informed, and shaped by attachment and mentalization-based perspectives. This means that together, we may pay attention to your early relationships, emotional patterns, inner conflicts, unconscious meanings, and the ways past experiences may still be present in your current life and how it reemerges in therapy room. We may also explore how trauma has affected your sense of safety, trust, desire, self-worth, boundaries, and connection with others.
Our work together is less about following a to-do list, and more about creating a space for being. It is an experiential space to slow down, listen inward, and gently expand the internal capacities that a fulfilled life requires.
I am currently integrating somatic approaches into my trauma work in order to provide more holistic care. Trauma is not only something we think about or talk about; it can also be carried through the nervous system, the body, and the felt sense of being in the world. For this reason, I try to create a space where your emotional, relational, cultural, and embodied experiences can all be held with care.
Social context and intersectional approach
Cultural humility is central to my practice. I aim to offer therapy that respects and aligns with your cross-cultural lived experiences, rather than asking you to separate your pain from the social, cultural, political, and family contexts in which it developed. I understand that healing does not happen outside of context. Our histories, languages, communities, migrations, spiritual or religious backgrounds, and experiences of belonging or exclusion can all shape how trauma is felt and understood.
My work is also informed by an anti-oppressive, anti-racist, and intersectional lens. I am trained to work with racial identity and oppression, as well as diverse lived experiences across the intersections of race, gender, sexuality, class, disability, and religion. In therapy, this means making space for the ways systems of power and social inequality may shape your experience of trauma, safety, identity, and mental health.