You grew up learning your feelings didn't matter. Here, they finally do.
Therapy for adults carrying childhood trauma, emotional neglect, C-PTSD, or OCD, especially if you look like you have it together and don't feel like you do.
Schedule a free 15-minute consultationLPC-Associate · Supervised by Ilyse Kennedy, LPC-S, SEP
EMDR & IFS trained
+ neurodivergent no masking
required
Something's off, and you can't point to why.
- You feel disconnected from yourself and the people around you.
- Asking for what you need feels uncomfortable, or impossible.
- You dissociate, go numb, or feel like you're watching your life from a distance.
- You're hypervigilant in ways you've never had a name for.
- From the outside, you're fine. Inside, something's missing.
If you're nodding along, you're in the right place.
This isn't a personality flaw. It's what happens when a nervous system adapts to not being fully seen. Those adaptations made sense once. They're allowed to change now.
How we work
I use IFS, EMDR, and somatic therapy to help you reconnect with yourself and process what shaped you, at a pace your nervous system can actually trust.
Complex PTSD
When "I'm fine" has been a survival response for a long time.
read more →Childhood emotional neglect
When the wound is what didn't happen, not what did.
read more →OCD
When obsessive or compulsive patterns are doing protective work you didn't ask them to do.
read more →EMDR
How reprocessing actually works, and what a course of treatment looks like.
read more →IFS
Meeting the parts of you that learned to go numb or take over.
read more →Not sure which one you are?
Most people aren't. Start with how I actually work, then follow whichever one sounded uncomfortably familiar.
how I help →no perfect words required — messy first sentences are always welcome
Training that backs this up
LPC-Associate, supervised by Ilyse Kennedy, LPC-S, LMFT-S, PMH-C, SEP, EMDRIA certified. EMDR-trained. IFS-trained. Serving clients virtually across Texas and in person in Austin.
What I will and won't do
- I won't invalidate you, and I won't ask you to explain your family, culture, or identity twice.
- You don't have to mask, hold eye contact, or sit still to be taken seriously here.
- I won't be a bandaid therapist. Coping skills are not the same as healing.
- I won't promise this will be easy. I will promise it won't just be talking in circles.
A steady, judgment-free space is here whenever you are.
fifteen minutes, no pitch, and you can absolutely change your mind
Start learning, at your own pace
What is childhood emotional neglect?
When your feelings went unseen growing up, the wound is what didn't happen — and it quietly shapes you for years.
Read the explainer →Why you feel numb or empty
The quiet disconnection so many people carry from neglect — where it comes from, and how you slowly learn to feel again.
Read the explainer →You're allowed to have needs
If asking for anything feels uncomfortable or "too much," here's why — and how to begin trusting that your needs matter.
Read the explainer →What is C-PTSD?
How repeated childhood stress shapes the nervous system — and why "I'm fine" is sometimes a survival response.
Read the explainer →Quieting your inner critic
Where that harsh inner voice comes from, and gentle ways to begin meeting it with compassion instead of fear.
Read the explainer →Self-compassion 101
What self-compassion actually is (and isn't), and why it's one of the most powerful tools in healing.
Read the explainer →Explore the Learn library →