Complex PTSD Therapy

Through EMDR, attachment-based, and relational therapy, I help clients in Mid-Culver City Los Angeles begin to feel safe in their own bodies, reconnect with others, and experience life beyond survival.

The Emotional World: Living with Complex Trauma

Growing up with emotional neglect, abuse, or other forms of childhood trauma can leave deep and lasting effects.

For many people living with complex PTSD, life can feel confusing. You might struggle with feelings of loneliness, anxiety, or depression, and wonder why emotions can feel so overwhelming.

It can be especially confusing and painful when those you grew up with won’t acknowledge your experience of what happened, or when they can’t offer the emotional support you need. Healing from childhood trauma often means facing truths that are both liberating and unsettling, yet it can also bring heartbreak when others minimize your experience or take advantage of your vulnerability.

Understanding the impact of your past, and being heard, can bring relief.

Therapy for complex PTSD offers a space where your story can be heard, with your feelings validated, and your healing supported, without judgment, dismissal, or avoidance. Understanding the impact of your past, and being heard, can bring relief.

Our Childhood Matters

For some, it’s easy to say “just get over it.” But childhood trauma just isn’t that simple.

Maybe you’re beginning to understand what you experienced growing up. Maybe you feel worn down by stress, health concerns, memories, or flashbacks. You’re tired of feeling dismissed or denied by family members who won’t acknowledge your reality, and can’t seem to understand. You want to be taken seriously.

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How Childhood Trauma Shapes Our Lives

Childhood trauma creates its own bubble, and makes it extremely hard to know what’s best for ourselves. It impacts how we relate to others, our sense of who we are, and changes how our nervous system responds to everyday life.

Trauma can confuse us in relationship to others. It can cause us to stay in unhealthy situations, seek love from unavailable people, or experience anxiety and hurt in connections that should feel safe.

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Begin Healing from Trauma in Los Angeles

Your story matters. Take the first step toward safety, connection, and self-understanding with trauma-informed therapy in Mid-Culver City Los Angeles.

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How Trauma Shapes the Self

Trauma and Identity

Do you find it difficult to make decisions and spend long periods mulling them over? Do you often defer to other people to make choices? Maybe you find it hard to even have an opinion or preference over things, and instead find it easier to go with whatever is happening in the moment.

Do you often feel powerless or without a sense of purpose? Do depression and anxiety dominate daily life? Trauma can make even the most mundane and simple aspects of our lives feel like mountains to climb over.

Trauma can deeply impact your sense of who you are and how you want to present yourself to the world. If you feel numb, helpless, or confused about who you want to be as you explore your life, therapy can help.

Through trauma and identity therapy in Los Angeles, you can begin to rebuild trust in your own perspective, strengthen your sense of self, and rediscover confidence in your decisions. Healing starts by being seen, heard, and supported without judgment

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Understanding Complex PTSD

Complex PTSD develops from chronic, repeated experiences of childhood trauma, and causes long-term changes in the brain and nervous system. It starts from growing up in an environment that was repeatedly perceived as dangerous, neglectful, or harmful. This can lead to:

– Overactive fight-or-flight responses (hyperarousal)
– Underactive or numb responses (hypoarousal)
– Confusing what is safe and what is dangerous in everyday life
– When our minds and bodies were wired to feel our home environments or loved ones as threats, it can cause adult life to feel disorienting or unsafe.

Symptoms of Complex PTSD I Work With
– Dissociation (feeling disconnected from yourself or your life)
– Shame and an inner critic
– Hypervigilance and chronic stress
– Memory loss related to trauma
– Fight, flight, freeze, and fawn survival responses
– Codependency and relationship struggles

If you find yourself going above and beyond in relationships, therapy can help create a new context around independence, healing shame, and restoring self-worth.

My Trauma-Focused Approach to Healing

Healing complex trauma requires more than talk therapy. It requires a multi-faceted, nuanced process.

My approach is:

Trauma-informed and relational

Honoring your pace and lived experience.

Somatic and nervous system oriented

Addressing mind-body connections.

Attachment-based

Rebuilding safety and trust in relationship.

EMDR-informed

Utilizing evidence-based trauma processing techniques

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What Healing Looks Like

Healing starts with building a sense of trust in session. At its core, this is a relational process. I advocate for safety and consistency, and understand the sensitivities around complex PTSD and how it affects you. If relationships don’t typically feel safe, this is where we will start.

What are the emotions you feel in session? What experiences you are having? There is inherent value in finding space to discuss how you experience therapy and what comes up for you.

You don’t have to navigate this alone.

I offer online and in-person therapy for Complex PTSD with a focus on safety, regulation, and building trust.

If you’re ready to take the next step, reach out to schedule a free consultation call.

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