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In-Person and Online Therapy for PTSD

Helping individuals and their partners adapt to life with, and recover from, PTSD.

How is it possible that someone once so successful is now so overwhelmed at home?

Living with PTSD is deeply challenging. You’re stuck in a cycle where the past constantly intrudes into the present, and you can’t break the emotional and physical overwhelm. The vigilance is exhausting. Anger or numbness are your primary states of existence. Everyone seems to be disappointed by you.

PTSD is the burden to bear, but you feel like the burden to everyone else.

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Why work with me?

Because I live it too.

I have my PhD in Clinical Psychology (Trauma emphasis) and performed most clinical and research hours at military-affiliated sites (e.g., VA, NCIRE, Fort Carson, Veterans Health & Trauma Clinic). But I also married a Purple Heart combat veteran. So while I have seen PTSD in the therapy chair, I have also seen it across the kitchen table.

There is more to treating PTSD than traditional talk therapy, and more to understanding its effects on relationships than a textbook can offer. I bridge clinical expertise with lived experience, and I can help you.

You want to:

  • Reduce tension and communicate better with your spouse and kids.

  • Show and receive vulnerability without shutting down or getting overwhelmed.

  • Understand how your past is affecting your present, and how to break the cycle for your future.

  • Calibrate your nervous system so it stops freaking out over minor things.

  • Feel less angry, ragey, irritable, and negative all the time.

  • Be more proud of your military service, rather than avoiding anything that reminds you of it.

  • Trust yourself and your gut again.

  • Have hope for your future.

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It is possible to feel
in control and connected again.

PTSD Treatment

Explores themes of power and control, intimacy, trust, esteem, and safety —
as they relate to yourself and to others.

These specific themes are pulled from Cognitive Processing Therapy, one type of exposure therapy available in treatment. However, these themes can be addressed in any trauma therapy.

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    Power & Control

    Solve problems and meet challenges

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    Intimacy

    Meeting emotional needs of yourself and others

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    Trust

    In your judgment, intuition, and decision-making

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    Esteem

    Your own worth and capabilities

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    Safety

    Protect yourself from harm

So how can therapy help?

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The process is like solving a puzzle: we start out organizing jumbled pieces, looking for patterns, and clarifying the picture. Over time, we shift from “starting the puzzle” to “finishing the puzzle,” as you gain more clarity and skills and refine goals.

This is all achieved by using traditional talk therapy, more intensive exposure therapy, and other tools as needed. You will leave sessions with something to reflect on, to read, to practice, and how to do that in your already busy and overwhelming life.

Therapy is a beautiful mix of compassion and challenge. I meet you with warmth and empathy, and also push your edges of growth.