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TRAUMA THERAPY | ILLINOIS

You've carried this 
for a long time

Trauma therapy in Illinois for high-functioning women carrying developmental, relationship, and complex PTSD. IFS-informed, somatic, depth-oriented telehealth sessions throughout Illinois.
 

YOU MIGHT RECOGNIZE YOURSELF

Trauma does not always look like
what you think.​

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MAYBE YOU ARE

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The One Who Minimizes

"Nothing that bad happened to me." And yet your body tells a different story. You learned early that your experience was too much, or not enough to count.

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The Caretaker

You learned that your sense of safety depended on managing everyone else's emotions. Now caretaking feels like love and you cannot tell the difference anymore.

 

The High-Functioning Survivor

You survived something, or many things, and built an impressive life on top of it. What you did not do is process it. The cracks are starting to show.

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Perimenopause & Old Wounds

The hormonal shifts of perimenopause have surfaced trauma she thought she had dealt with. The body keeps its own schedule.

 

The Relationally Wounded

Not any specific event, but a thousand small experiences of not being seen, held, or valued. Attachment wounds that have shaped every relationship since.

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The One Who Numbs

Food, wine, work, scrolling, busyness. You know you're avoiding something but it has never felt safe enough to stop and find out what.

 

 

 

WHAT IS HAPPENING IN THE BODY

Trauma is a
nervous system and relationship wound.

 

Trauma is not what happened, but what happened to your nervous system and your place in relationships in response to it.

Those moments live in the body, often for decades, shaping behavior in ways that feel automatic because they are.

Somatic and parts-based approaches let us work with trauma at the level where it lives

creating conditions for the nervous system to complete what it could not complete then.

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THIS WORK

​​What recovery can look like​

  • The past begins to feel like the past, not constantly pressing through into the present

  • More capacity to stay present in relationships without going into survival mode

  • Less need to numb, avoid, or perform because what was being protected starts to feel safe enough to show

  • Different relationship with your own history.  Not really forgetting, but no longer being defined by it​​​​​​​​​​​​

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Finding the right therapist really matters. ​Not every approach
is right for every person, and the relationship
with your therapist is an import​ant part of the healing.
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The free 20-minute consultation is a no-pressure conversation if this is the right fit and support for you.​​​

No commitment required. If this is not the right fit, we'll talk about what is. 

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