Therapy for Complex Trauma, C-PTSD & Intergenerational Trauma
You carry wisdom beneath the wounds. Healing is a return to wholeness.
Did you grow up feeling unseen, unheard, or emotionally alone, even if your basic needs were met?
Were your caregivers emotionally unavailable, overly controlling, reactive, narcissistic, or inconsistent in their love and support?
Do you find yourself struggling with boundaries, feeling unworthy, or tend to put others’ needs ahead of your own?Maybe you learned to be strong, capable, and self-reliant from a young age. Or maybe you became the peacemaker, constantly attuned to others while disconnecting from your own needs. Beneath all this, there may be a feeling of unease..
A feeling that something isn't quite right.
You might find yourself:
Struggling with boundaries or feeling unworthy
Carrying a sense of guilt or a deep sense of “not enough”
Repeating painful patterns in relationship patterns, despite your best intentions
Feeling emotionally overwhelmed or constantly on edge
Parenting from a place of fear, anxiety, or shame
People-pleasing or over-functioning to avoid conflict or rejection
Questioning your reality or feeling unsure of your needs and emotions, especially if you were raised by a narcissistic or emotionally manipulative parent
These patterns often have deep roots.
You may be carrying survival responses passed down through generations and holding more than just your own story.
And that can feel confusing, isolating, and heavy.
What Is Complex Trauma?
Also known as Developmental or Relational Trauma
Complex trauma doesn’t always stem from a single traumatic event and arises from ongoing relational wounds in childhood. It often arises from repeated experiences in childhood like emotional neglect, inconsistency, narcissistic abuse, or being raised by caregivers who were anxious, controlling, abusive, or emotionally unavailable. These early relational wounds shape how you see yourself, how you connect with others, and how safe you feel in your body and the world.
When your nervous system adapts to prolonged stress in early life, it creates protective strategies that may no longer serve you today.
What is C-PTSD?
Understanding Complex Post-Traumatic Stress
Complex PTSD (C-PTSD) develops after chronic or repeated trauma, especially in relational contexts like childhood emotional abuse, physical abuse, neglect, or growing up in a household with mental illness or addiction.
C-PTSD is the result of ongoing violations of safety, boundaries, or trust.
Common signs of C-PTSD include:
Persistent anxiety, panic, or hypervigilance
Flashbacks, nightmares, or emotional reactivity
A sense of being emotionally stuck or unsafe
Difficulty trusting others or feeling close
Chronic shame, low self-worth, or internalized blame
C-PTSD impacts not only your mental health, but your body, your relationships, and your sense of who you are. Healing begins with understanding these survival responses and learning how to gently support your nervous system.
What is Intergenerational Trauma?
Intergenerational trauma, ancestral or transgenerational trauma, is the unresolved emotional and physiological pain passed down through families. It often stems from collective experiences like colonization, war, displacement, systemic oppression, poverty, or addiction.
When these traumas go unprocessed, caregivers may unknowingly carry survival-based parenting patterns like emotional disconnection or neglect, rigid control, emotional manipulation and anxiety-driven behaviors.
These inherited patterns influence your beliefs, behaviors, and relationships, often without conscious awareness.
Healing Trauma: A Path Back to Wholeness
Healing trauma requires more than insight or talk therapy alone. These experiences live in the body and often operate without conscious awareness.
In our work together, we’ll explore how your body has adapted to protect you, while gently supporting your nervous system to move out of survival into connection. We’ll also work with attachment patterns formed early in life, helping you understand the roots of your present-day concerns and begin building a more secure relationship with yourself and others.
Inspired by the teachings of my mentor, Efu Nyaki, I deeply honor the body’s wisdom and ancestral strength. Our work may also include reconnecting with cultural, familial, or spiritual sources of strength in ways that feels supportive, grounding, and meaningful to you.
Even if you feel disconnected from your roots, we can explore what resilience and belonging might look like, in a way that feels safe and authentic, at your own pace.
Through this work, you will:
Identify inherited beliefs and behavioral patterns
Understand how trauma lives in your body and shows up in relationships
Learn tools to regulate your nervous system and manage stress
Explore attachment wounds and begin to build secure attachment
Cultivate self-compassion and emotional resilience
Break free from intergenerational cycles that no longer serve you
Reconnect with inner wisdom and ancestral strength.
This Is Deep, Transformational Work
You may be here because something within you knows it’s time for change. You’re ready to move beyond survival and start living more fully. You want to feel connected: to yourself, to others, and to your purpose.
Healing from trauma takes courage. It starts with creating safety within your body and begins to shift how you experience relationships and patterns.
You are here because you want something different. You’re ready to break old cycles and build a new path for yourself and the generations that follow.
And you don’t have to do it alone.
