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Hi, I’m Sheila (she/they), a mental health therapist with 15 years of experience counseling adults with anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, relationship issues, and childhood trauma. I help you find balance in mind, body and spirit and heal from old wounds. I believe that you're doing the best you can but are stuck in old patterns of thinking, feeling, and acting. You want love and meaning but often feel anxious, depressed, alone, or not good enough.

I am a trauma therapist with a specialty in complex trauma resulting from attachment wounds in childhood. Some of the ways this shows up in the present include: difficulty regulating emotions, getting stuck in negative spirals, unhealthy patterns in relationships, and chronic difficulties with feeling not good enough.

Dysfunctional families fail to give their children enough of a sense of safety, control, or of being valued and understood. I have experience in helping people with wounds from alcoholic/addicted family members; divorce; adoption; emotional, physical or sexual abuse; loss of a parent; family mental illness; narcissistic or borderline parents; and bullying.

I customize your treatment through collaboration based on your unique needs and goals. I am a holistic therapist who strives to see you as a whole person and celebrates your strengths and progress. We work together to develop a clear future vision for how you want to be feeling, thinking and behaving differently.

I often use EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing therapy to help you reprocess old memories that hijack your nervous system when you’re triggered. This provides lasting relief from the root causes of your problems and is a more focused and effective way of doing therapy than talking about the problem of the week. I also teach practical skills for regulating the nervous system drawn from somatic therapies, including yoga for behavioral health.