Trauma Therapy & PTSD Treatment in Lawrence, KS
Specialized, compassionate treatment for PTSD, childhood trauma, and the ways old wounds keep shaping today.
What happened to you matters, and so does what you had to do to get through it. Hypervigilance, numbness, people-pleasing, rage that surprises you: habits like these usually made sense once, even if they're causing problems now.
As a trauma specialist, I help teens, adults, and elders in Lawrence make sense of those adaptations and gently update them. My approach is trauma-focused and attachment-based, which means we pay attention both to what happened and to the relationships in which it happened, and we use the safety of the therapy relationship itself as part of the healing.
Whether you're carrying a single overwhelming event or a childhood's worth of accumulated hurt, healing is possible. Not by forgetting, but by finally being able to remember without drowning.
How we work with trauma
Safety and stabilization
Before we go anywhere near painful material, we build real skills for regulating your nervous system, so therapy itself never becomes another overwhelming experience.
Processing, your way
Depending on what fits you, we may use EMDR, somatic approaches, compassion-focused work, or mindfulness-based therapy. There is no single script; there's the approach that works for your story.
Reconnection
Trauma disconnects you from your body, from others, and from a future worth wanting. The final phase of the work is about rebuilding those connections on your own terms.
Common questions
Wondering about trauma & ptsd?
Have a question that isn’t answered here? Reach out anytime.
What counts as trauma? My experience doesn't seem 'bad enough.'
If an experience overwhelmed your ability to cope and still affects you today, it counts. There's no threshold to clear, and you don't need a dramatic story to deserve support.
Will I have to talk about everything that happened?
No. You set the pace and choose what to share. Several of the approaches I use, including EMDR and somatic work, don't require detailed retelling at all.
Do you treat complex (C-PTSD) and childhood trauma?
Yes. Much of my work is with adults healing from long-term, relational, or childhood trauma, using attachment-based and phase-oriented treatment.
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Learn moreCurious whether therapy could help?
A free 15-minute phone call is a simple way to ask questions and get a sense of whether we're a good fit.