Specializing in Complex Trauma, Borderline Personality Disorder, Narcissistic Abuse Recovery, Codependency and More .
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Holistic therapy to help regulate your nervous system, embody authenticity, and become a loving ally to yourself
Specializing in Borderline Personality Disorder, trauma, Codependency, Narcissistic Abuse Recovery and more
Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD)
I view BPD as a spectrum. While there are common threads—fear of abandonment, rejection sensitivity, people-pleasing, accommodation patterns—everyone's experience is different.
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The fear of abandonment isn't just about relationships ending. It's about the terror of loss, the constant hypervigilance around rejection, and most damaging: self-abandonment and the inability to live authentically.
When we talk about emotional dysregulation in BPD, there's usually a reason: childhood invalidation, lack of support in learning to safely regulate emotions, and the accumulated weight of trying to hold all your relationships together while losing yourself in the process.
Yes, there are biological components to emotion regulation and impulse control. But much of what we see in BPD tells a story. Behaviors, thoughts, and feelings are communication from parts of yourself that need to be understood, not pathologized.
BPD is not a life sentence. Despite popular belief, many people lose their diagnosis with proper treatment. And people with BPD are often deeply sensitive, creative, and beacons of honesty in a world that desperately needs it.
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If you're struggling with BPD—or think you might be—you deserve support that sees your humanity, not just your symptoms.
Trauma (complex, relational, and more)
I work with trauma of all kinds—complex trauma (CPTSD), family-of-origin wounding, relational trauma, acute trauma, and everything in between. My focus is on helping you find true nervous system regulation—the ability to feel safe inside your own body and as safe as possible in the world.
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A mentor of mine once said: people often learn how to put armor on, but they forget how to take it off. The goal isn't to be defenseless—it's to have the flexibility to protect yourself when needed and soften when it's safe.
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Trauma has a story and a history. It deserves to be understood without shame. We hold these charged experiences not just in our minds, but in our bodies. There's wisdom in the adaptations you developed to survive—they kept you safe. But often, the very things that protected you become obstacles to connection, authenticity, feeling safe in the world, and pursuing what you actually want.
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In our work together, we'll honor what got you through while gently loosening the grip of patterns that no longer serve you.
Codependency
Codependency goes far beyond the textbook definition of "making excuses for someone who uses substances." It's a complex pattern of self-abandonment that shows up as people-pleasing, overextending yourself to manage relationships, taking on a caretaking role to ensure a connection survives, and losing yourself in the process.
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Codependency might look like extending endless compassion to an abusive partner instead of getting yourself to safety. It might look like feeling responsible for everyone's emotions but your own. It might look like not knowing where you end and someone else begins.
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The roots often trace back to childhood: being parentified, confused about roles and responsibilities from a young age, learning that your worth depends on how much you can manage the people around you. You learned early that your needs don't matter as much as keeping everyone else okay.
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But here's the truth: your worth isn't measured by how much you can carry for other people.
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In our work together, we'll help you identify where you're abandoning yourself, rebuild boundaries that feel authentic (not rigid or guilty), and get your life back under control—so you can stop losing yourself in others and start showing up for yourself.
Narcissistic Abuse Recovery
I can't diagnose someone in your life with Narcissistic Personality Disorder—but I can help you make sense of what you experienced. Narcissistic patterns aren't uncommon: chronic invalidation, shirking responsibility, blaming you for everything, inability to see you as a complex person with legitimate needs and feelings.
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The hallmark of narcissistic relationships is that you disappear. Your needs, your reality, your very sense of self—gone. You might have felt crazy, like you were trying to convince someone that your feelings matter and getting nowhere. You couldn't get from point A to point B in a conversation because the goalpost kept moving.
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People with narcissistic traits struggle to take responsibility because they can't tolerate even low levels of shame. So instead of accountability, you got deflection, projection, gaslighting. Instead of being seen, you got blamed.
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Recovering from narcissistic abuse isn't about diagnosing them—it's about reclaiming yourself. It's about coming back to your needs, your reality, your worth. And understanding what in your history made you vulnerable to this pattern, not so you blame yourself, but so you can recognize the signs earlier and protect yourself going forward.
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You're not crazy. Your feelings do matter. And you deserve relationships where you don't have to fight to be seen.
Anxiety and Depression
While depression and anxiety can have biological and hereditary components, they're also often signs of nervous system dysregulation and unmet needs trying to get your attention.
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Depression can act as a shutdown valve—your body's way of saying "this is too much" when life has remained at a high intensity for too long. It's protective, even when it doesn't feel that way. Sometimes depression is telling you that something in your life needs to change: a job that's draining you, a relationship that's not working, a version of yourself you've outgrown but don't know how to leave behind.
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Anxiety can be a protective pattern—keeping you hyper-prepared for danger, scanning for threats, trying to control outcomes to keep you safe. But when anxiety runs unchecked, it can keep you stuck, unable to rest, unable to trust yourself or the world around you. Sometimes anxiety is pointing to real challenges you're facing alone that feel too big to handle without support.
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Both can also be inherited—perhaps this runs in your family, perhaps it was modeled to you by the people who raised you. There's a lot to explore about what you learned about emotions, safety, and how to be in the world.
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Medication can absolutely help, and I support clients in finding the right psychiatric support when needed. But medication works best alongside therapy—creating holistic safety in your body and mind, helping you slow down when you're anxious, helping you re-engage with life when you're depressed, and addressing the root causes so you're not just managing symptoms but actually living differently.
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You don't have to white-knuckle your way through this alone.
Clinical Supervision for LSWs in Pennsylvania
I am ironing out the details of a Clinical Supervision Program that involves a cohort of LSWs whom meet individually with me, and collectively as a group to discuss cases through varying therapeutic lenses. I am ironing out the details of a Clinical Supervision Program that involves a cohort of LSWs whom meet individually with me, and collectively as a group to discuss cases through varying therapeutic lenses.