Specialty
Complex trauma and C-PTSD
When the hard thing wasn't one event but a long climate — years of not being safe enough, seen enough, or allowed to need anything.
You might recognize
Some of this may sound familiar
- You read every room before you enter it, and you're tired.
- You can describe your childhood calmly and still feel nothing, or everything.
- Shutdown, numbness or dissociation show up when things get close.
- You're capable and high-functioning, and privately braced all the time.
In the work
What we actually do
We slow down before we go deep
Trauma work that outruns your nervous system isn't trauma work. We build capacity first — noticing what happens in your body, learning what settles you, agreeing on how we'll stop. Pacing is part of the treatment, not a delay before it.
We work with parts, not against them
The hypervigilance, the numbing, the inner critic — each of them learned to do a job. Trained in Internal Family Systems and Inner Relationship Focusing, I help you turn toward those parts with curiosity instead of trying to overrule them.
We repattern at the source
Insight alone rarely shifts a survival response. Working somatically means we track sensation, impulse and breath as they happen in session, so change registers in the body and not only in the story you tell about it.
“Many approaches to therapy treat humans as logic machines. But real change lives in the emotional/unconscious mind, in the attachment systems and the body.”
FAQ
Questions people ask
What's the difference between PTSD and complex trauma?
Post-traumatic stress usually refers to the effects of a discrete event. Complex trauma describes what happens after repeated or prolonged experiences — often in childhood, often within relationships you couldn't leave. The effects tend to show up in identity, self-worth and how you relate to people, not only in flashbacks.
Do I have to tell the whole story?
No. Detailed retelling is not required for this work, and for many people it isn't helpful. We work with what is alive in the present — sensations, patterns, reactions — and you decide what gets spoken about and when.
I've done years of therapy already. Why would this be different?
Many people arrive understanding their patterns thoroughly and still living inside them. Somatic and experiential work gets underneath the thinking brain, so the change happens where the pattern is stored rather than where it is explained.
How long does this take?
Complex trauma work is usually longer-term and paced to you. We review together how things are going rather than working toward a fixed number of sessions.
Do we meet in person or online?
Weekly therapy takes place via telehealth. I am licensed in New York and can only offer psychotherapy services to people who reside in New York State. Ketamine-assisted sessions happen in person at my office in Manhattan or via home visits.
Start with a free consultation
A short conversation to see whether we would be a good fit for working together. Weekly therapy takes place via telehealth. I am licensed in New York and can only offer psychotherapy services to people who reside in New York State.