Your Brain Isn’t Broken — The World Is.
Brainspotting + depth therapy for highly sensitive, neurodivergent humans navigating trauma, chronic illness + burnout in a world that often feels chaotic, overwhelming, or out of alignment.
psychotherapy for women + queer folks in Maine, North Carolina, and South Carolina
What if your symptoms aren’t dysfunction — but signals from a nervous system trying to survive an incoherent world?
Is this work for you?
You may be here because your nervous system has been on high alert for as long as you can remember.
Because the world wasn’t built for your mind, your body, or the way you experience things — and surviving it has been exhausting.
Maybe you grew up noticing emotional undercurrents others ignored. You felt deeply, thought intensely, and sensed patterns that others dismissed. In environments that couldn’t tolerate that level of awareness, you may have learned to shrink, numb out, intellectualize your feelings, or overfunction just to get through.
You might identify with — or carry diagnoses such as — CPTSD, AuDHD, or OCD.
Your mind is perceptive and analytical. You notice connections others miss. Yet the world often demands you fit into systems and expectations that were never designed for people with sensitive nervous systems.
For many who find this work, the body also carries what words never could.
My clients often live with chronic illness or medically complex conditions such as hypermobile Ehlers–Danlos syndrome (hEDS), MCAS, autoimmune disease, mold-related illness, long COVID, or other chronic conditions.
Years of symptoms, medical procedures, dismissal, or misdiagnosis can leave the nervous system braced for danger — not just physically, but psychologically. Many people carry the quiet exhaustion of navigating systems that were never built to understand their bodies.
From a depth-oriented perspective, these experiences are not simply problems to eliminate.
They are meaningful responses from a nervous system and psyche that have been adapting to environments, relationships, and systems that could not fully hold their sensitivity.
Your emotions, bodily sensations, recurring relational patterns, and inner intuitions may be carrying messages that have not yet had space to be heard.
If you’ve tried traditional talk therapy and found yourself understanding your patterns intellectually but still feeling stuck in your body, you’re not alone.
Through Brainspotting and depth-oriented therapy, we work directly with the brain and nervous system where trauma, emotional patterns, and body memory are stored.
Healing rarely happens in straight lines.
It unfolds gradually, returning to the same places with greater awareness and capacity.
It moves in spirals.
This work may be for you if you
𖦹 Grew up in a family, school, or environment that dismissed your emotions, sensitivity, or difference
𖦹 Notice patterns of overfunctioning, hyper-vigilance, or carrying responsibility that was never meant to be yours
𖦹 Live with chronic illness, medical trauma, or have experienced dismissal or gaslighting within the healthcare system
𖦹 Identify as AuDHD, OCD, highly sensitive, or neurodivergent, and want a therapist who understands both your mind and your nervous system
𖦹 Identify as queer, LGBTQIA+, or outside dominant norms, and want therapy that honors your identity and lived experience
𖦹 Are ready to move beyond coping strategies and insight alone into deeper nervous-system healing 𖦹
𖦹 Feel deeply affected by the state of the world and sense there must be a deeper way of living, healing, and being
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, nervous-system-based work, and a relational approach. Rather than chasing symptoms or focusing only on insight, we work with the deeper layers of experience — the body, emotions, and unconscious patterns shaped by early relationships, societal pressures, and environments where you may have felt misunderstood or dismissed.
Many of my clients grew up in systems that could not fully see, hear, or accommodate their intensity. Over time, you may have learned to stay hyper-alert, overfunction, or silence your own needs in order to survive.
Therapy becomes a space where you no longer have to perform, manage, or shrink yourself to fit the expectations of others.
I work with adults navigating cPTSD, AuDHD, OCD, neurodivergence, chronic illness, and medical trauma, as well as those within the queer and LGBTQIA+ community. Many of my clients have spent years feeling misunderstood by families, institutions, or medical systems that were not designed to support their sensitivity.
If you feel frustrated, overwhelmed, or exhausted by the state of the world — your reaction makes sense. The problem has never been that you are “too much.”
Through Brainspotting, we work directly with the brain and nervous system where trauma, emotional memory, and body-held patterns live. This allows healing to happen at a deeper level than traditional talk therapy alone.
I also welcome spiritual curiosity, intuition, and meaning-making as part of the healing process. Depth work honors the idea that our symptoms, emotions, and bodily responses may carry messages from the psyche that deserve attention rather than suppression.
This work is grounded, embodied, and deeply attuned — always centered on your lived experience, your body, and the wisdom of your nervous system.
𖦹 Depth over surface-level coping strategies
𖦹 Nervous-system based healing — not just intellectual insight
𖦹 A therapeutic space where difficult emotions can be explored with safety, attunement, and trust
𖦹 Support processing family-of-origin trauma, mother wounds, medical trauma, chronic illness, or birth trauma
𖦹 To be fully seen and understood in their sensitivity, intuition, and depth
𖦹 Therapy that honors the connection between the psyche, body, and nervous system
This work tends to resonate most with people who are looking for something deeper than traditional talk therapy.
My specialties
𖦹 Family-of-origin trauma and complex attachment wounds
𖦹 Mother wounds, including navigating motherhood without having been mothered
𖦹 Eldest daughters, scapegoats, and black sheep roles within family systems
𖦹 Survivors of narcissistic or emotionally immature family environments
𖦹 Birth trauma and the psychological shifts that come with becoming a mother
𖦹 Living with chronic illness, medical trauma, and experiences of medical gaslighting
(including hEDS, MCAS, autoimmune illness, mold-related illness, and long COVID)
𖦹 High sensitivity, emotional intensity, and nervous system overwhelm
𖦹 ADHD, autism, OCD, and anxiety, especially when these experiences have been misunderstood, masked, or dismissed
𖦹 Therapists, healers, and caregivers who are used to holding space for everyone else
𖦹 Anger, grief, and the emotions that were never safe to express
What is Brainspotting?
Brainspotting is a brain- and nervous-system–based therapy that helps the body process trauma and emotional experiences that may be stored beneath conscious awareness.
Using eye position and the body’s felt sense, Brainspotting allows us to access deeper parts of the brain where trauma, stress responses, and emotional patterns are held. Rather than needing to analyze or explain everything verbally, the nervous system is given space to process what it has been carrying.
This approach can be especially supportive for people who:
𖦹 feel stuck despite years of insight or traditional talk therapy
𖦹 live with complex trauma or chronic stress
𖦹 experience nervous system overwhelm or high sensitivity
𖦹 are neurodivergent (AuDHD, OCD) and process experience deeply
𖦹 live with chronic illness or medical trauma
Brainspotting allows healing to happen at the level of the brain and body, where many experiences are actually stored.
For many people, it opens the possibility of moving beyond coping strategies into deeper nervous-system healing.
