What I Help With
Childhood Trauma
Trauma therapy in Portland, Oregon
You’ve been carrying this stuff around for a long, long time. You know those memories like you know all the lines from your favorite childhood movies.
That one again, you think to yourself, as you try and squash it down for the umpteenth time, along with the anxiety, uneasiness, or rage that always rises up alongside it.
You know you’re finally ready to stop using so much of your energy to manage your relationship to what happened in the past. You don’t know what it’s going to look like when the trauma isn’t weighing you down anymore - you’ve been adapting to the shape of it your whole life - but you know that doing this for the rest of your life doesn’t feel tenable anymore.
Most of the people I work with have at least some childhood trauma – some a whole lot.
The landscape of childhood is not an easy one for many people. By processing your trauma and confronting the truth of it directly, you’re showing up now as the adult the child version of you needed.
In addition to my clinical training and experience, I bring my unshakeable belief in the personhood and value of children into my work with childhood trauma.
The nature of childhood trauma is that you’re never quite sure who you’d be without it. And while the question of who you would have been if you hadn’t had those experiences may never be answered, the question of who you will be now, having finally made peace with the reality of those experiences, can be.
