Reclaim Your Strength.
Release what is burdening you, reframe what has protected you, and restore what is within you.
Therapy for combat veterans, first responders, and trauma-exposed careers.
IN-PERSON THERAPY IN
COLORADO SPRINGS
ONLINE THERAPY IN
42 STATES
Does This Sound Familiar?
You want to stay calm, but instead you feel:
Out of control, overwhelmed, like you’ve lost your edge.
Cynical, irritable, moody. If you hear “Why are you so grumpy all the time?!” one more time you might make the evening news.
Like a burden, a failure. It seems like something is wrong with you, and feel guilty that others are suffering because of it.
That hope only leads to disappointment. Relaxing means you’ve let your guard down. Both are dangerous, and you will be punished.
You have trouble connecting with your family, difficulty sitting still and being present, and miss the work you used to do. You believe you should feel fulfilled at home, but you don’t.
Your relationships are so conflicted.
You really are trying your hardest - why isn’t it good enough?
Noises, mess, bickering, silent treatment, nagging, rejection - they are hard to deal with. Sometimes you feel stuck because you don’t want to be home, but you also don’t want to be anywhere else.
You wish people knew how much you were holding back and appreciated your restraint instead of criticizing your reaction.
Specialties
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Exposure Therapy
More intensive work exploring and healing the emotional, somatic, and logical elements of trauma. There are several types of exposure therapy, including EMDR.
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Trauma-Exposed Careers
Working through the demands of an intense, confidential, and graphic profession while trying to tend to the emotions and needs of loved ones at home.
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Veterans & Responders
You’ve seen and experienced things that most civilians can’t comprehend. This can lead to struggles with relationships, emotions, isolation, sleep, and work.
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Spouses
Spouses to partners with PTSD, combat veterans, or those in high stress careers can feel alone. Therapy may involve processing the past, learning communication and emotion regulation skills, and restoring trust.
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Transforming Events
Exploring major shifts in identity, time and resources, relationships, and loss that come with milestone events, even positive ones.
You can feel more in control.
I provide specialized treatment for individuals with PTSD & stress symptoms. My clients leave therapy feeling lighter, calmer, clear-headed, and steady. Relationships are more fulfilling, and everything feels like less of a fight.
Using an assortment of traditional, skills-based, and exposure therapy modalities, we trace the roots of the modern-day issues, increase tolerance to uncomfortable sensations, and choose how your future will unfold. We practice regulating what we can and enduring what we can’t.
Keep your edge sharp and your heart open.
Schedule a consult to learn how.
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Schedule free consult
In this phone call, we briefly discuss what you are struggling with, how I may be able to help, and any logistics (e.g. scheduling). This conversation helps us both determine if we are a good fit.
What happens next?
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Attend first appointment
Complete emailed paperwork prior to attending. This intake is a broad overview: we briefly discuss current issues but also focus on history-gathering and other “need to know” information.
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Trust and commit to the process
You’ve already overcome big hurdles. Moving forward, I will help guide you through the rest to find your balance, restore your trust, and seek contentedness.
What is normal for stress and PTSD?
Good question!
The term PTSD is well known these days, but not necessarily well understood. any people will develop some symptoms of PTSD (there are 20), and many symptoms can be in response to a stressor not classified as traumatic (per the DSM-5).
If you have served as a frontline responder with chronic exposure to traumatic events (or a career with consistent exposure to death), it has changed you. You may not have PTSD, but you see the world differently now and certainly relate to other people differently. This is not necessarily bad. However, recognizing these signs in yourself and others offers the chance to intervene and course correct before it becomes PTSD - and to adjust on your terms.
Whether you have a PTSD diagnosis or are struggling to make sense of what is “normal”, I can help you restore emotional and nervous system balance, regain trust in your intuition, and build more fulfilling relationships.
