Therapy for Attachment Wounds and Developmental Trauma

Your past experiences don’t need to rule your current relationships any longer

Life taught you that people, relationships, and the world aren’t safe.

You are still living with the weight of those lessons.

HEALING OLD PATTERNS

When your early relationships taught you to stay vigilant

When your early relationships taught you to stay vigilant, suppress your needs, or work hard to earn love and acceptance, those patterns can follow you into adulthood. You may understand where they came from and still find yourself anxious, disconnected, overwhelmed, or struggling in relationships. I can help you to understand these patterns, and heal the underlying wounds that keep them in place.

MY APPROACH

A Little About Me

I help people heal the patterns that have kept them stuck for decades.

You are probably exhausted from all the work you are doing to manage your symptoms, your emotions, and your life. You are ready to go deeper, to heal in a lasting way. I’m ready to go there with you.

My approach is to guide you inwards to work with all the different parts of you that need healing. I combine gold standard trauma healing with somatics and psychedelic assisted therapy to help you unload the burdens that are holding you back.

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Signs of Developmental /Attachment Wounding

  • Cyclical relationship struggles

  • Hypervigilance

  • An inner critic voice in your head

  • Perfectionism

  • Difficulty setting boundaries

  • Fear of intimacy

  • Difficulty regulating emotions

  • Unjustified or extreme anger

  • Avoidance techniques like substance use or overworking

  • Reactions to your partner that feel overblown

  • Feeling disconnected from yourself

  • Often Feeling Frozen or Shutdown in Tense Moments

You can heal the wounds from childhood and have the close, connected relationships you long for.

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MY ROLE

How I Help

These may be some of the components of our work together:

  • Tracking your common patterns of reactivity

  • Learning how these patterns are trying to help

  • Developing skills to access a calm, grounded energy

  • Restoring trust with yourself

  • Healing young, vulnerable child parts of you

  • Introducing psychedelic assisted sessions as needed

FAQs

  • Developmental trauma refers to the cumulative impact of chronic early experiences like emotional neglect, inconsistent caregiving, or ongoing criticism, rather than a single traumatic event.

  • PTSD is often associated with a single traumatic event, while developmental trauma (sometimes called Complex PTSD or C-PTSD) results from prolonged relational or environmental harm, typically in childhood.

  • Common signs include chronic self-criticism, anxious or avoidant attachment patterns in relationships, emotional numbness or dysregulation, and difficulty setting boundaries.

  • Talk therapy alone often has limited reach with developmental trauma, since these patterns are frequently stored in the body and subconscious; approaches like IFS, somatic therapies, and psychedelic assisted therapy allows us to reach far beyond what the conscious mind can access.

  • Yes. While attachment patterns form early, therapy that addresses the underlying relational wounds can support movement toward more secure attachment over time.

  • Yes. Sessions are available via secure telehealth to adults anywhere in Vermont, as well as in-person in Montpelier.

  • Yes. For clients who reach a plateau with talk therapy alone, KAP can be integrated to help access and process trauma that has felt too overwhelming to approach directly.

  • Early relational wounds often shape adult attachment patterns, boundary-setting, and self-worth, showing up later as recurring relationship difficulties even when the original cause isn't consciously remembered.

  • No. Many people seek trauma-informed therapy for patterns and symptoms without a formal diagnosis; a diagnosis isn't required to begin treatment.