The Intake (90 minutes) - Mapping the Terrain

We begin with time. Time to breathe, to orient, to get clear on what brings you here and where you want to go. I won’t rush you. This is where we start laying down safety and connection. We’ll begin to look at the patterns—not as problems, but as intelligent responses to threat. Together, we begin to shift the question from “what’s wrong with me?” to “what happened to me?”

Weekly Sessions: Regulating, Reconnecting, Reclaiming

We meet weekly—not to “fix” you, but to be with the parts of you that have carried pain for too long. We use EMDR, IFS, and other relational approaches to touch into the networks your brain and body have built to survive. These aren’t symptoms to get rid of—they’re messages to be understood.  You’ve spent a long time in environments that trained you to suppress, not feel. To lead, not need. But healing requires contact—with yourself, your story, and the parts of you you’ve had to exile just to function. In these sessions, we use EMDR and Internal Family Systems (IFS) to work directly with those wounded parts. This isn’t a performance. You get to show up as you are. No mask. No rank. No title. Just human.

A Gradual Taper (Extinction Modeling)

When your system starts to stabilize, we shift into biweekly sessions—not to disconnect, but to honor your progress. This model comes from what we know about trauma recovery: healing happens in stages. Abandonment—even subtle—can retraumatize. So we don’t vanish. We recalibrate. You move forward with the knowledge that someone is still in your corner.