When you go through a overwhelming, traumatic event, your brain's primary job is to keep you alive. But long after the event has passed, your mind and body can stay stuck in that high-alert survival state.

Whether it happened recently or years ago, living with the aftermath of a traumatic event can make the world feel unpredictable, unsafe, and exhausting. You might feel like there is a clear boundary line in your life: who you were before it happened, and who you are now.

Trauma isn't just a bad memory—it’s an active disruption in how your brain processes and stores experiences. But with the right support, your nervous system can heal, and you can feel safe in your own life again.

Signs You’re Processing a Traumatic Event

Trauma affects everyone differently. It’s completely normal to experience a wide range of physical, emotional, and cognitive responses after a crisis or severe stressor, including:

• Intrusive Thoughts & Flashbacks: Unwanted memories, vivid images, or nightmares that make you feel like you are re-living the event all over again.

• Avoidance: Going out of your way to avoid specific places, people, driving routes, or conversations that remind you of what happened.

• Hypervigilance & Anxiety: Feeling constantly on edge, easily startled, scanning rooms for danger, or unable to let your guard down.

• Emotional Numbness: Feeling detached from loved ones, struggling to access joy, or feeling "hollow" inside as a way to protect yourself from pain.

• Physical Distress: Racing heart, tight chest, trouble sleeping, or sudden spikes of panic when triggered.

Targeted, Evidence-Based Trauma Recovery

You don't have to spend years endlessly retelling the painful details of what happened to find relief. At Reclaiming You PLLC, I use specialized, trauma-informed therapies to help your brain process acute experiences gently and effectively.

• EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing): Considered one of the most effective treatments for PTSD and traumatic events. EMDR uses bilateral stimulation (like eye movements or tapping) to help your brain "unstick" traumatic memories so they become ordinary past events rather than active, present threats.

• Somatic & Nervous System Regulation: Trauma triggers live in the body. We help you recognize your physical threat responses and give you real-time tools to discharge excess stress, calm your fight-or-flight system, and regain a sense of internal safety.

• Cognitive & Relational Processing: We address the painful beliefs that often follow a trauma—such as "It was my fault,""I am unsafe," or "I can't trust anyone"—replacing them with self-compassion, clarity, and control.

What to Expect in Session

Your safety and comfort are always the top priority. Trauma therapy moves strictly at your pace.

1. Building Your Anchor: We start by establishing ground rules for safety and teaching you practical somatic grounding tools. You will never be pushed to process a memory before you feel ready.

2. Targeting the Event: Using EMDR and somatic techniques, we systematically work through the distressing memory, reducing its emotional charge bit by bit.

3. Reclaiming Your Future: As the memory loses its power over your daily life, we focus on rebuilding your confidence, deepening your relationships, and helping you step forward with renewed trust in yourself.

Start Your Recovery in Wheat Ridge, CO

You deserve to feel secure, present, and at peace again.

I offer in-person at our Wheat Ridge, CO office (serving Wheat Ridge, Arvada, Golden, Lakewood, and West Denver) and offer telehealth across Colorado.

Evening and Saturday appointments are available to fit your schedule.