Brainspotting and depth therapy for the highly attuned and reflective
Depth therapy for people navigating mother wounds, emotional burnout and complex trauma. For those who want more than coping skills.
virtual psychotherapy for clients in Maine, North Carolina, and South Carolina
Is this work for you?
You may be here because something in your early family relationships still lives in your body.
Perhaps you were the eldest daughter or the one who became emotionally adult far too young. You learned to anticipate moods, smooth things over, or take responsibility for other people’s feelings. You may have been praised for being capable while quietly learning that your own needs were inconvenient or unsafe to express.
You might come from a family system where there was little room for emotional truth - where denial, control, volatility, or self-absorption shaped how love was given. Maybe you became the scapegoat or the “difficult one” for naming what others wouldn’t, or the black sheep for refusing to disappear inside the family’s expectations.
Many women I work with carry a deep and complicated mother wound - longing, grief, anger, and loyalty all at once. Some are now mothers themselves, navigating the ache of mothering without having been mothered. Others are still holding the quiet devastation of never having been truly seen.
You may identify as highly sensitive, intuitive, or emotionally intense. You feel deeply, think deeply, and notice what others miss. In families that could not tolerate emotional complexity, this often meant learning to shrink, numb, or turn your sensitivity inward as self-doubt.
For some, this history is intertwined with chronic illness or medical trauma - a body that has had to endure repeated procedures, dismissal, misdiagnosis, or the experience of not being believed. The body learns early when it must stay vigilant, quiet, or compliant in order to survive. Symptoms often become another language for what could not be spoken.
Anger may be present - not explosive, but buried, intellectualized, or turned against yourself. Grief may live alongside competence. You might be outwardly functional while inwardly exhausted, resentful, or disconnected from your own body.
From a depth-oriented perspective these patterns are not personal failures - they are meaningful responses shaped by early relationships, survival strategies, and the unconscious ways you learned to belong. Emotions, physical symptoms, recurring relational dynamics, and even images or intuitions can be understood as communications from the psyche, asking to be listened to rather than pushed away.
This work is for women who want to heal these patterns at the nervous-system level - not just understand them and who sense there is deeper meaning in what their body and inner world have been carrying.
This work may be a fit if you:
𖦹 Grew up in an emotionally immature, narcissistic, or unpredictable family system
𖦹 Were the eldest daughter, scapegoat, or emotional caretaker
𖦹 Carry unresolved anger or grief related to your mother or caregivers
𖦹 Are a mother navigating birth trauma or re-parenting yourself
𖦹 Identify as highly sensitive, intuitive, or spiritually curious
𖦹 Want therapy that goes beyond coping strategies and insight
This may not be the right fit if you are looking for brief, highly structured, skills-focused therapy.
My Approach
I offer depth‑oriented psychotherapy grounded in Brainspotting and nervous‑system‑based work. Rather than focusing only on symptoms, we work with the body, emotions, and unconscious patterns that formed in early relationships.
Many of my clients grew up without consistent emotional attunement. They learned to stay alert, responsible, and self‑sacrificing - often at the expense of their own needs. Therapy becomes a space where you no longer have to perform, manage, or hold everything together.
I welcome spiritual curiosity, intuition, and meaning‑making as part of the healing process. This work is grounded and embodied — not dogmatic or prescriptive — and always centered on your lived experience.
This approach is for those who want:
𖦹 Depth over surface-level coping skills
𖦹 Nervous-system based healing, not just insight
𖦹 Safety and trust in exploring difficult emotions
𖦹 Space to process mother wounds, family-of-origin trauma, or birth trauma
𖦹 To be seen fully for their sensitivity, intuition, and depth
Queer-affirming, neurodivergent-affirming, and trauma-informed care.
My specialties
Family-of-origin trauma and complex attachment wounds
Mother wounds, including mothering without a mother
Eldest daughters, scapegoats, and black sheep roles
Survivors of narcissistic or emotionally immature family systems
Birth trauma and identity shifts into motherhood
High sensitivity, emotional intensity, and nervous system overwhelm
ADHD, autism, OCD, and high anxiety (especially when misunderstood or masked)
Therapists, healers, and caregivers who hold space for everyone else
Anger, grief, and the emotions that were never safe to express
Brainspotting
Brainspotting is a powerful brain-based therapy that helps access and process trauma stored in the nervous system. By working with eye position and felt sense, Brainspotting allows experiences that are difficult to talk about to be processed gently and effectively.
This approach is especially supportive for highly sensitive people, complex trauma survivors, and clients who feel stuck despite insight or traditional talk therapy.
