Trauma Therapy with AEDP in Santa Rosa & San Francisco CA
Somatic Trauma Therapy
Heal your inner wounds
You’ve done everything right, you went to school, you got the job. Maybe you even have the relationship and the kids. But, its like something is holding you back from really feeling happiness or success. It might be that bad feelings are starting to creep in again. Perhaps you're feeling scared, overwhelmed, anxious, alone, shutdown or detached. Maybe its time to celebrate something, but you feel like you don’t deserve it. You might look around you and see others are connecting and having fun, and its like you don’t know how to join them.
Whether you have experienced a traumatic event, or have been deeply affected by repeated hurtful patterns in important relationships (called relational trauma), trauma therapy can help
Something in you doesn’t want to feel all of this alone anymore…
Whatever you are going through, you can’t ignore how its affecting your life now…
You’re feeling disconnected, emotionally numb, or completely flooded
You’re often overwhelmed or disappointed in your relationships
You're noticing echos from your childhood in your everyday life
Parenting is bringing up ghosts from your childhood
You suspect you have grown more mature than your emotionally immature parents and you don’t know how to operate in the relationship
You’re avoiding particular or all emotions
It feels like there is a deep wound that you can’t ignore anymore
AEDP is a model of trauma therapy that avoids labeling humans with disorders and instead understands that what a human has been through in their life and relationships can cause current day struggling in daily life. I believe that human beings are built to flourish and use somatic and attachment based tools to unlock your healing. Though parts of you may doubt it now, you can learn to trust in your successes, joys, and relationships. You can simply feel better. I am here to help you get there.
AEDP Trauma Therapy uses body and emotion focused tools to help you:
Open up to receive care and compassion from yourself, your therapist, and people around you
Heal from emotional wounds, hurtful or un-attentive relationships, parts that feel stuck in your past or can’t move forward into your next step
Feel empowered to change relationships, even family relationships, that drain you or make you feel stressed, angry, or have spiraling thoughts
Learn to read and tune into your body for a road map of healing.
Feel hopeful about therapy again
Process big emotions with the safety of a guide, so that you are able to feel like you are in the drivers seat of your life and connect to your own internal compass
A client recently shared a story about having a difficult conversation with someone they loved. It was so hard and scary. Then she told me about how she was surprised to look inside herself and find something that we had found in session the week before. “It was that feeling, like everything is going to be okay. I realized it was still there.”
However you are showing up, I welcome you with open arms. I help uncover glimmers of resilience, strength and growth that are already there. I trust we will discover these sparks and more. I believe that with the right care and attention everyone can come in contact with the part of them that knows “its going to be okay” and find a relationship with their centered truth. To find out more about AEDP, read this thoughtful article here.
Feeling broken and alone doesn’t have to be your truth anymore.
Insurances accepted: Aetna | United Health Care | Optum | UMR and more...
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Text to schedule a free consultation (707)687-9006
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Insurances accepted: Aetna | United Health Care | Optum | UMR and more... 〰️ Text to schedule a free consultation (707)687-9006 〰️
FAQs
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AEDP or Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy, is an experiential model that seeks to alleviate clients’ suffering by helping them process the overwhelming emotions associated with trauma in a way that facilitates corrective emotional and relational experiences that mobilize positive changes in our neuroplastic brains. Crisis and suffering provide opportunities to awaken strengths that otherwise might lie dormant, unknown and untapped. The AEDP therapist helps the client to see these opportunities for both trauma processing and healing transformation. Through the undoing of aloneness, and the in-depth processing of difficult emotional and relational experiences, the AEDP clinician fosters the emergence of new and healing experiences for clients, and with them resources, resilience and a renewed zest for life. -Adapted from AEDPInstitute
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I find its helpful to think about trauma as simply a harmful experience where a person did not get what they needed to develop through it and a wound developed. The wound can be caused either through harm committed or by omission, meaning your environment did not offer what you what you really needed at the time. The impact leaves a part of you stuck.
Relational trauma can be understood when the stuck-ness, or deep emotional wound, occurred within the relationship with someone you trusted to protect and take care of you. Many adult children of emotionally immature parents are actually suffering from relational trauma and aren't aware of it.
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In an AEDP session with me, you will have the experience of spending time with someone who really cares about you and pays gentle attention to what you are doing and saying. AEDP is a talk therapy, but more importantly I will help you check in with your body and the thoughts, feelings ,and sensations that come in session. I will guide you are you come into contact with these emotions and somatic experiences in a supportive way. I will will be there to change what might normally be an overwhelming experience into a processing and healing experience.
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AEDP Psychotherapy is an Evidence-Supported Practice. There is direct empirical support for the effectiveness of AEDP as a psychotherapy model. The results from Iwakabe and colleagues’ (2020, 2022) practice-research network study showed that AEDP psychotherapy is effective with a variety of psychological symptoms and issues, including depression, emotion dysregulation, negative thoughts, experiential avoidance, and interpersonal problems. AEDP is also effective in enhancing positive functioning such as self-compassion, well-being, and self-esteem. -From AEDP Institute