PTSD Therapist | Trauma & CPTSD Treatment LMFT

If you’re looking for a PTSD therapist, you’re in the right place.

From the outside, your life may appear stable, successful, and well put together. You’ve learned how to keep moving forward, handle what’s in front of you, and perform at a high level. But internally, there’s still a sense of tension, like your system never fully settles.

This is something I often see in high-achieving adults. If this resonates, it may also be helpful to explore therapy for high achievers , where we look at how ongoing pressure, responsibility, and internal expectations can keep your system activated, even when everything looks “fine” on the surface.

You may not fully identify with the word trauma, especially if you’ve minimized your experiences or compared them to others. But trauma isn’t defined by how something looks; it’s defined by what your nervous system wasn’t able to process at the time. When it remains unresolved, it doesn’t simply fade, it continues to live in the body.

Over time, this can show up as feeling on edge, emotionally reactive, disconnected, or stuck in patterns that don’t align with the life you’ve created. PTSD and CPTSD don’t always present in obvious ways. They often appear as anxiety, irritability, shutdown, or chronic stress that doesn’t fully resolve.

This is where the work begins, by understanding what your system is still holding onto and helping it process, so you can move toward a more regulated, present, and grounded way of functioning.

PTSD (Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder) and CPTSD (Complex PTSD) are nervous system responses to experiences that felt overwhelming, threatening, or were never fully processed at the time. Trauma is not only defined by extreme events, it’s defined by what your system was not able to integrate.

For many high-achieving adults, this can come from prolonged stress, repeated pressure, emotional neglect, or environments where you had to stay composed and perform. Your system adapted by staying alert, controlled, or disconnected. Even if your life now feels stable, your body may still respond as if it isn’t. PTSD is not a sign of weakness, it’s a sign that your system had to survive without the chance to fully process what happened.

• Feeling constantly on edge or easily triggered, even in situations that don’t seem objectively threatening

• Emotional reactions that feel intense or disproportionate to what’s happening in the moment

• Irritability, anger, or sudden emotional shifts that feel difficult to control

• Emotional numbness, disconnection, or a sense of being detached from yourself or your surroundings

• Intrusive thoughts, memories, or mental replaying that you can’t easily turn off

• Difficulty feeling safe, even in stable or supportive environments

• Patterns of overcontrol, hyper-independence, or perfectionism as ways to stay protected

• Chronic stress, fatigue, or a persistent inability to fully relax or let your guard down

• Do I feel triggered or reactive in ways I don’t fully understand? This can be a sign of PTSD, where your nervous system is responding to past experiences, even if the present moment feels safe.

• Do I struggle to feel calm, even when nothing is wrong? PTSD can keep your system in a constant state of alert, making it difficult to fully settle, even during calm moments.

• Do I feel disconnected from myself or others? Disconnection is a common trauma response, where your system creates distance as a way to cope with what feels overwhelming.

• Do I notice patterns that keep repeating despite my efforts to change them? With PTSD, patterns often persist because the experience hasn’t been fully processed at a nervous system level.

• Sometimes it can feel like you’re constantly managing your internal state instead of actually feeling stable, like you’re always trying to regulate, stay composed, or keep things in check, and that ongoing effort is often a sign that your system is working overtime due to unresolved trauma.

If these resonate, your system may still be responding to unresolved experiences.

My approach to PTSD and CPTSD is trauma-informed and body-based, focused on helping your system process what hasn’t been fully resolved. I don’t rush into deep processing. I begin by building stability and supporting your nervous system so you have the capacity to move through this work safely.

This may include nervous system regulation to reduce chronic activation, EMDR therapy to reprocess traumatic or unresolved experiences, and somatic therapy to address how trauma is held in your body. I also help you identify patterns rooted in survival responses and integrate new ways of responding, so you’re no longer reacting from past experiences.

The goal is not just to manage symptoms, but to help your system feel safe enough to function from the present, not the past.

• Unresolved trauma and past experiences that still feel present in your body, even if they happened years ago

• Anxiety, chronic stress, and hypervigilance that keep your system in a constant state of alert

• Emotional reactivity, irritability, or shutdown responses that feel automatic and difficult to control

• Perfectionism, control, and overfunctioning as survival strategies your system developed over time

• Relationship patterns, emotional triggers, and recurring dynamics that continue despite your awareness

• Difficulty feeling safe, present, or connected, even in stable or supportive environments

• Negative core beliefs shaped by past experiences, such as feeling not enough, not safe, or always needing to stay in control

• Rebuilding your sense of safety so your system no longer has to stay in survival mode