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Areas of Support
Somatic therapy and counseling for trauma, anxiety, grief, attachment wounds, relationship challenges, emotional overwhelm, and nervous system regulation.
People often reach out because something feels difficult to carry alone. Sometimes there is a clear event, diagnosis, loss, or life transition. Other times, there may be a pattern in the body, relationships, emotions, or nervous system that is hard to name.
You do not need to know exactly what category fits. We can begin with what is present and explore what kind of support may be most useful.
Common Reasons People Reach Out
Trauma and PTSD
Support for experiences that continue to affect the body, emotions, relationships, sleep, attention, or sense of safety after the event has passed.
Anxiety, Panic and Phobias
Support for worry, panic, fear, avoidance, body alarm, racing thoughts, and the nervous system patterns that can make life feel smaller or harder to enter.
Depression and Shutdown
Support for low mood, numbness, withdrawal, heaviness, loss of motivation, disconnection, or feeling far away from yourself and your life.
Grief and Loss
Support for death, separation, life transitions, identity changes, ambiguous loss, and the tender process of learning how to carry what has changed.
Chronic Stress and Burnout
Support for exhaustion, over-responsibility, pressure, depletion, irritability, collapse, and the difficulty of resting after long periods of survival mode.
Relationship Challenges
Support for communication, conflict, boundaries, trust, repair, closeness, distance, rupture, and patterns that repeat in families, partnerships, or friendships.
Trauma, Stress, and Nervous System Support
Emotional Overwhelm
Support for emotions that feel too large, too fast, or too difficult to stay present with without shutting down, exploding, collapsing, or disconnecting.
Numbness or Disconnection
Support for feeling detached from your body, emotions, needs, relationships, memories, or sense of aliveness.
Hypervigilance
Support for feeling constantly on alert, scanning for danger, bracing for what might happen, or having difficulty feeling safe even when things are okay.
Chronic Tension or Bracing
Support for body patterns involving tightness, holding, guardedness, jaw tension, shallow breathing, protective posture, or difficulty letting down.
Difficulty Resting or Sleeping
Support for nervous system patterns that make it hard to settle, sleep, soften, pause, or feel safe enough to rest.
Feeling Stuck in Survival Mode
Support for patterns of fight, flight, freeze, collapse, pleasing, over-functioning, avoidance, or feeling unable to move forward even when you want to.
Attachment, Developmental, and Early Relational Support
Developmental Truama
Support for early or repeated experiences where there may not have been enough safety, protection, consistency, attunement, or emotional support.
Attachment Wounds and Disruptions
Support for patterns involving fear of closeness, fear of abandonment, difficulty trusting, chronic self-reliance, people-pleasing, or difficulty receiving care.
Adoption, Foster Care, and Early Separation
Support for children, teens, adults, and families impacted by adoption, foster care, early separation, caregiving disruption, or post-institutional experiences.
Reactive Attachment Concerns
Support for attachment-related concerns involving withdrawal, difficulty seeking comfort, controlling strategies, emotional guardedness, relational mistrust, or difficulty accepting care.
Parent-Child Bonding
Support for parents and children working with connection, regulation, repair, trust, transitions, behavioral stress, and the felt sense of safety in relationship.
Primitive Reflexes and Early Body Organization
Support for early sensorimotor patterns that may relate to regulation, coordination, attention, sensory sensitivity, posture, movement, or feeling organized in the body.
Children, Teens, Parents, and Families
Anxiety and School Stress
Support for children and teens navigating worry, overwhelm, school pressure, separation anxiety, social stress, perfectionism, or difficulty feeling settled.
Anger, Aggression, or Oppositional Patterns
Support for big reactions, defiance, conflict, shutdown, aggression, emotional storms, and the needs or nervous system patterns underneath behavior.
ADHD and Attention Challenges
Support for attention, impulsivity, organization, regulation, body restlessness, executive functioning stress, and the emotional impact of feeling misunderstood.
Bullying and Peer Relationships
Support for children and teens navigating peer conflict, bullying, rejection, social anxiety, belonging, confidence, and relational safety.
Divorce, Separation, and Family Transitions
Support for children, teens, parents, and families moving through separation, divorce, blended-family changes, relocation, grief, or shifting roles.
Family Communication and Repair
Support for families working with conflict, boundaries, emotional regulation, communication, rupture, repair, and more supportive ways of relating.
Medical, Shock, and Body-Based Trauma
Accidents, Falls, and Injury
Support for the lingering effects of accidents, falls, injuries, sudden impact, pain, fear, bracing, or feeling changed in your body after what happened.
Medical Trauma, Surgery, and Hospitalization
Support for medical procedures, surgery, anesthesia, hospitalization, diagnosis, pain, invasive care, medical fear, or feeling powerless in medical settings.
Choking, Suffocation, or Near-Drowning
Support for experiences involving loss of breath, airway threat, choking, suffocation, near-drowning, panic, or the body’s memory of not being able to breathe.
Birth and Early Medical Stress
Support for early medical experiences, birth stress, separation, neonatal care, early procedures, or body-based patterns that may have begun before words.
Brain Injury and Concussion Stress
Support for the emotional, relational, and nervous system impact of concussion, head injury, brain injury, disorientation, overwhelm, or changes in functioning.
Witnessing, Loss, Disaster, or Collective Trauma
Support for experiences involving witnessing harm, sudden loss, natural disaster, violence, community trauma, war, collective fear, or events that overwhelm the system.
This page offers examples of concerns that may bring someone to therapy. It is not a diagnostic checklist, and it does not mean that any one approach is appropriate for every situation. We can discuss your needs, goals, history, and current circumstances together.
Not sure where you fit?
You do not need to have the right words before reaching out. Many people begin with a feeling, a pattern, a body response, a relationship struggle, or a sense that something in life is asking for support.
We can begin with what is present and explore together what kind of support may be appropriate.
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