Trauma Therapy for Healing at the Root
Trauma therapy for adults dealing with PTSD, complex trauma, childhood emotional neglect, and unprocessed memories.
Is this you?
- You’re stuck in fight, flight, freeze, or fawn, and you can’t think your way out of it
- Your childhood emotional neglect, or PTSD, still shapes how you show up today
- You are still healing from complex trauma from a long pattern
- You experience emotional flooding when certain memories come up
- You feel numb or shut down
- You’re constantly overthinking
- Your inner voice keeps telling you to be over this by now
You don’t have to keep feeling so alone
What is Trauma Therapy?
Trauma therapy is therapy designed to reach what talk therapy alone often cannot. Not just the cognitive layer. The body, the nervous system, the protective parts that learned a long time ago that staying hidden was safer than being seen.
Trauma does not live only in memory. It lives in how the body braces, how the mind loops, how the nervous system reads a present-day moment as a past-day threat. Trauma therapy works at all of those layers.
The work integrates three evidence-based modalities. Internal Family Systems (IFS) reaches the wounded and protective parts of the self. EMDR uses bilateral stimulation to help the brain process memories that would not file the first time. Polyvagal-informed care helps the nervous system learn the felt difference between bracing and resting. Together, they reach what talk therapy alone cannot.
How Trauma Therapy Can Help
- Ease intrusive thoughts and the emotional flooding that comes with them
- Build the regulation skills your nervous system did not get to learn the first time
- Help your body know what safety feels like
- Settle the inner restlessness so you can rest
- Heal childhood emotional neglect and the patterns it left behind
- Interrupt the patterns that have been costing you closeness with the people you love
The pace is yours. We move at a speed your nervous system can hold, while still helping you make real change.
My Approach
My approach is integrative, trauma-informed, and paced to what your nervous system can hold. As an IFS therapist, an EMDR therapist, and a polyvagal-informed therapist, I draw on multiple evidence-based modalities and match the work to what you need.
Treatment typically includes:
- A thorough first conversation to understand your history, your nervous system, and what brought you in
- Stabilization work first: grounding, emotional regulation, distress tolerance
- EMDR therapy for trauma using bilateral stimulation to process stuck memories
- Polyvagal-informed nervous system regulation therapy
- Psychoanalytic depth, especially when childhood emotional neglect is part of what you are carrying
- Gradual processing of traumatic memories when you are ready
- Safety planning and aftercare support
The structure: first we help you feel safe and stable. Then we go deeper. So trauma stops controlling your thoughts, your reactions, your relationships.
What to Expect
- Session length: 50 minutes
- Format: In-person in Lafayette, IN or virtual across Indiana (Indianapolis, Merrillville, Schererville, Winamac, and throughout the state)
- Frequency: Typically weekly, with biweekly as the work settles in
- Insurance: In-network with Anthem BCBS, UnitedHealthcare, UMR, Aetna, and Cigna. Private-pay rates available, and superbills for out-of-network reimbursement.
- Free 20-minute consultation by phone or video before scheduling
We move at a pace your nervous system can hold. The pace is yours.
How to Get Started:
Step 1
Reach Out for a Free Consultation
A 20-minute phone or video call. You can ask questions, get a sense of how I work, and see if it feels like a fit.
Step 2
Begin With an Initial Session
We begin with a structured conversation getting to know your story, what you are carrying, and what feels most important to start with.
Step 3
Begin Ongoing Trauma Work
Sessions integrate IFS, EMDR, and nervous-system work as you need it.
FAQs About Trauma Therapy
Will I have to relive my trauma to heal from it?
No. IFS and EMDR are different from traditional talk therapy here. You do not have to retell the story in detail to process what happened. We keep your nervous system regulated, so you can move through what is stuck without being overwhelmed.
How is this different from regular talk therapy?
Talk therapy alone often hits a ceiling with trauma. Insight does not always reach the parts of you that are still bracing for impact, or the memories that loop in your body. So we go in differently. IFS goes directly to the parts. EMDR processes the stuck memories. Polyvagal-informed care helps your body learn safety. Together they reach what talk therapy alone cannot.
I've tried therapy before and it didn't really help. What's different here?
This comes up often, and it matters to me. Many clients who say this had therapists who were skilled at listening, but never trained in the modalities that move trauma. IFS, EMDR, and polyvagal-informed work go directly to those places. The pace stays yours.
Do you offer in-person and virtual sessions?
Both. My office is at 133 N. 4th St., Suite 506 in Lafayette, IN, and I see clients virtually across the state. As a trauma therapist in Lafayette, Indiana, I offer EMDR therapy for trauma in Lafayette in person, and I provide Internal Family Systems therapy throughout Indiana virtually, including Indianapolis, Merrillville, Schererville, and Winamac.
Do you treat PTSD?
Yes. PTSD treatment is one of the core focuses of my practice. I integrate EMDR and IFS, both of which are evidence-based for PTSD, with polyvagal-informed nervous system work. Single-incident PTSD, complex PTSD, or the slower imprint of childhood trauma, we work with all of it.
What is Parts Work Therapy, and where can I find it in Indiana?
Parts work therapy is another name for Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy. The premise is simple. You are not one consistent self. You are a system of parts: protectors, wounded young ones, the part that runs the show. They each formed for a reason. IFS helps them come into a more compassionate relationship with each other. I am an Internal Family Systems therapist, and I offer parts work therapy in Indiana both in person in Lafayette and virtually statewide.