Trauma & PTSD Therapy in Atlanta
You've been carrying this for a long time - maybe alone, maybe without understanding why it still has such a hold on you. Healing is possible.
Trauma doesn't always announce itself clearly. Sometimes it's constant vigilance, never quite relaxed even when nothing is wrong.
Sometimes it’s intrusive memories, or a body that reacts before your mind catches up. Sometimes it’s just numbness – a quiet disconnection from yourself and everyone around you.
Trauma therapy in Atlanta isn’t about forcing you to relive what happened. It’s about processing it in a way that gradually loosens its grip, so it becomes part of your history rather than something that still feels like it’s happening.
Trauma therapy
Trauma Comes in Many Forms
Examples of trauma include physical abuse, sexual assaults, military combat trauma, childhood neglect, severe accidents, and medical trauma. Healing and recovering from trauma happens with trauma therapy.
The healing process
What Trauma Therapy in Atlanta Looks Like
Trauma therapy begins with safety. We build a foundation first-a therapeutic relationship where you feel grounded and safe to do the work.
From there, we use approaches that have strong evidence behind them. Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) helps you examine and work through the beliefs that formed around what happened - thoughts like it was my fault or nowhere is safe.
Prolonged Exposure helps you gradually approach memories and situations you've been avoiding, teaching your nervous system that the threat has passed. Both are structured, paced, and guided by where you are each week — never pushed.
Prolonged Exposure (PE) helps you gradually approach memories and situations you've been avoiding, which teaches your brain that the threat has passed and reduces associated anxiety and fear. Both are structured and guided each week.
Treatment
PTSD Treatment in Atlanta
Stuck
Nervous system locked in survival mode - unable to register the danger has passed
6 signs
Flashbacks, nightmares, reactivity, avoidance, detachment, difficulty trusting
CPT + PE
Evidence-based approaches that change how your mind and body relate to what happened
Benefit
Signs You May Benefit from Trauma Therapy in Atlanta
If you cant stop thinking about something that happened in the past; if you avoid things that remind you of the traumatic experience; if your body reacts before your mind does; if you feel disconnected from yourself or others; or if the old wounds are shaping your current relationships and daily life.
Beyond talk therapy
Why Trauma Therapy Is Different from Regular Talk Therapy
Trauma lives in the nervous system, not just in thoughts – which is why talking about it alone isn’t always enough.
Evidence-based trauma therapy provides a specific structure for processing what happened in a way the brain can integrate, so it stops triggering the same survival responses.
My Approach
My Approach to Trauma Work
In our work together, the therapeutic relationship comes first where we first establish goals together, ensure safety, and feeling grounded. Evidence based trauma focused therapies provide structure to accomplish your goals.
My Approach
In-Person and Online Trauma Therapy
I offer in-person sessions in North Atlanta - a private, consistent, and grounding space.
Telehealth is a fully effective option for trauma work, and for clients who experience anxiety in public, difficulty leaving home, or who live outside Atlanta, it removes a real barrier. Secure sessions available throughout Georgia.
Good Things Start With Reaching Out
Services
Services
Services
Whatever you’re going through, you don’t have to figure it out alone. Here’s a look at the areas I specialize in:
Individual Therapy
Individual Therapy Life gets heavy - transitions, relationships, stress, identity. Individual therapy gives you a dedicated space to process what's happening and build the coping skills to move forward.
Marriage and Couples Therapy
Marriage and Couples Therapy Whether you're struggling to communicate or trying to rebuild trust, I help couples understand the patterns keeping them stuck and find new ways to connect.
Substance Use Treatment
Substance Use Treatment I provide evaluations and support to help you understand and build a healthier path.
Depression Treatment
Depression Treatment Depression is more than sadness - it's a fog that makes everything harder. I offer compassionate, evidence-based treatment to help you feel like yourself again
DBT
DBT Dialectical Behavior Therapy is a structured, skills-based approach that helps people manage intense emotions, improve relationships, and build a life worth living.
Anxiety Treatment
Anxiety Treatment From constant worry to panic attacks to social anxiety, I help you understand what your anxiety is doing - and give you practical tools to quiet it down
FAQs
Questions People Ask Before Their First Session
How is trauma therapy different from regular therapy?
Trauma therapy uses structured, evidence-based approaches designed for how trauma is stored in the body and brain. Without that structure, talking about trauma can sometimes increase distress rather than ease it.
What is CPT and PE and how does it help?
CPT helps you identify and work through the beliefs that formed around a traumatic experience - like it was my fault or I can't trust anyone. As those beliefs shift, the emotional weight of the trauma tends to decrease.
PE is an exposure based trauma focused therapy where you will focus on reducing the anxiety associated with trauma reminders and you can engage in your life more comfortably and fully. You will also work on revisiting the trauma memory so your brain can digest the memory and your PTSD symptoms will decrease.
Do I have to talk about what happened in detail?
Not necessarily, and never before you're ready. Some approaches work more with present-day responses and beliefs than with detailed retelling. We'll decide together what makes sense for you
How long does trauma therapy take?
Structured treatment approaches like CPT take about 12 sessions and PE about 8 to 16 session. Some people need more and some need less. We'll assess and adjust as needed together throughout treatment.
Can trauma therapy help even if it happened years ago?
Yes — often very effectively. The brain doesn't distinguish between old and recent trauma in how it stores distress. Old wounds respond to treatment just as well as recent ones.