Therapists at Woven
Meet Our Trauma-Specialist Team
I help individuals and couples with:
Stalking, Sexual Abuse + Exploitation, Intimate Partner Violence, Dissassociative Disorders, Complex PTSD, Religious Trauma, 2SLGBTQIA+ and alternative relationship issues
Available for EMDR Therapy, EMDR Intensives, Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy, and Couples Intensives
Sessions are $275
I help individuals and couples with:
Racial Trauma, Childhood Abuse, Sexual Assault + Abuse, Religious Trauma, Codependency, Cultural Adjustment, Complex PTSD
Available for EMDR Therapy and EMDR Intensives, Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy, and Couples Intensives
Sessions are $250
I help couples, individuals, and families with:
Communication Issues, Sexual Assault or Abuse histories, Postpartum Depression + Anxiety, Foster Care or Adoption Trauma
Available for EMDR Therapy, EMDR Intensives + Couples Intensives
Sessions are $325
I help individuals with:
Complex Trauma, Codependency, Single-incident Trauma, PTSD from Military Service, Workplace Stress, Trauma within Medical Professions, Vicarious Trauma
Available for EMDR Therapy and Psychological Testing
Sessions are $300
I am the owner and clinical director of Woven. I have over 13 years clinical experience treating trauma and trauma-related disorders.
At Woven, we provide trauma-informed insight therapy to help you process your trauma and regain control of your life again. My hope is that you would find one of our staff members to help support your trauma healing journey. They are talented, committed to healing, and deeply devoted to their clients.
I’m here to help match you with your next great therapist. There’s two ways to get scheduled with a therapist here at Woven. You can fill out the form or schedule a time to chat with me and I’ll match you with the best therapeutic fit.
I like to make this process as easy as possible. I help take all the complication out of getting started with a trauma specialist at Woven.
I help couples & individuals with:
Betrayal Trauma, Complex PTSD, Grief & Loss, Chronic Illness, Anxiety, Stress & Depression, Religious Trauma, Family Estrangement
Available for EMDR & EMDR Intensives, Neuro & Biofeedback, Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy, and Couples Intensives
Sessions are $275
Want to learn more about our approach to trauma therapy?
Here’s what our therapists have to say on our blog
So, you have an idea of what you want to say to a loved one about what you’ve gone through. You’ve thought about what might come up for you, and practiced soothing yourself in different ways. So what’s next? Planning for what you might specifically need from the conversation and person you’ll be telling. Let's talk about it.
I have had many patients come to therapy with me and say that talk therapy has not been helpful for them. Specifically, I hear the same complaint over and over: I felt like all I did was talk and open up, and I didn’t feel like there was a direction to therapy. When I hear complaints like this, I always want to start with some education about what trauma therapy looks like. Let's dive in.
Oomph, so you lost something. You lost something or someone that you loved. We often go so fast as a society, we celebrate the successes and wins, and we tend to ignore the pain associated with loss and grief, or put a time limit on it. Especially non-death-related grief and loss. This is an awful reality to endure for someone grieving. Let’s dive into how processing grief may look as a trauma survivor.
So, you’ve accepted that you get triggered pretty regularly because of What Happened, which is huge. It took so long to stop feeling like you were just “acting out for no reason,” and even if you still suspect you’re milking this whole trauma timeline, you also know you deserve a little bit more peace. In this blog post series, we’ll be covering how to have as safe and as containing of a conversation as possible with your loved ones about your trauma.
If you often find yourself in conflict with your partner which leads to yelling, there are a few things you can try to help create an environment for more productive conversation can occur. There should be very few reasons for you to yell or be yelled at, so trying a timeout protocol may help limit this way of engaging in conflict.
For many people with PTSD and trauma-related disorders, “dissociation” is a term that can seem scary and stigmatized. It can be important to demystify and educate ourselves on dissociation to better understand and validate our experiences.
What is shame? The dictionary definition is “a painful emotion caused by consciousness of guilt, shortcoming or impropriety.” One study even defined shame as “negative emotions in which the feeling of global self-evisceration is experienced.” Global self-evisceration. Oof! Shame is extremely unpleasant and painful, and it can affect one’s identity and self-esteem.
Many people are familiar with the idea of intersectionality, or how different aspects of our identities intersect with one another to make us who we are as people. What are the different ways that racial trauma shows up in our lives? Let’s dive in.
Psilocybin, the active ingredient in psychedelic mushrooms, is probably going to be legalized for therapeutic use in the United States in the next two years, and that’s on trauma treatment progress. Let’s dive into part III in what that may look like for trauma treatment.
There are five stages in the family life cycle and the stage of parenting is considered the most stressful. This is the time in which divorce rates are at their highest, sex is at its lowest and couples feel the most disconnected. Here are some ideas to help maintain your relationship during this hectic time.
We might be only a year or two away from legalizing psilocybin, the active ingredient in psychedelic mushrooms, for therapeutic use in the United States. Let’s talk about what that might look like for future trauma treatment.
With the well-earned buzz around this evidence-based approach to healing trauma, there are also plenty of misunderstandings. Let’s take a look at some common myths so that you are prepared to advocate for yourself and make decisions about your mental healthcare.
Microaggressive trauma describes the excessive and continuous exposure to subtle interpersonal and systemic discrimination that lead to trauma symptoms like sensitivity to threat, anxiety, and hyperarousal.
When I ask myself: “What do all human beings have in common?” I always come to the same conclusion: we all have a wounded child that lives within us. That child may have been wounded by different systems and in different ways, but in the end, even if our identities are filled with privilege, we all have been injured, in one way or another in our early relational dynamics and that is part of being human.
What is a situationship, you ask? A situationship “is often discussed as being similar to a friends-with-benefits relationship, which usually involves sexual activity without a commitment to be exclusive to each other. The definition further explains that “a situationship is often described as a relationship that is more than friendship but less than a committed relationship.” So what are we to do if we find ourselves in one of these? Below are some ideas!
We’re in our shrooms era. That’s right. I said it. Psilocybin is having a glow-up in the psychotherapeutic community, and we are excited about what that means for future trauma treatments.
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard, “I felt like my White therapist just didn’t get it” or “I quit therapy when my therapist told me to just set boundaries with my immigrant parents.” Don’t get me wrong, I think any therapist of any race can be culturally inclusive with the right training, consideration, and sensitivity. For example, I trust the diverse team here at Woven to be thoughtful of issues of (de)colonization, Asian American frame switching, and being flexible with interventions to consider unique aspects of identity.
Throughout my practice as a somatic trauma therapist, I see patients whose painful experiences muted their connection to the body. For trauma survivors, focusing on their body sensations - even if only for a brief second - can become extremely overwhelming because it brings them back to their experiences of being neglected, abandoned, or abused. Let’s explore the concept of somatic awareness and to help trauma survivors understand why this practice holds the key to understanding emotions, traumas, and overall well-being.
You may be feeling vulnerable, hopeful, anxious, excited, uncertain, fearful, or any combination of emotions as you await your first session. Questions like what to expect during a 90-minute intake, what does a regular 45-minute session look/feel like, or how to plan/prepare for therapy in general may be on your mind (or search history). This is completely normal! Megan Bakva, ASW talks about her approach to trauma therapy.
Some may assume that grooming only happens to children or adolescents, but grooming happens to adults as well. Quite surprisingly, sexual abuse occurs by someone the victim knows 93% of the time. This might include a family member, friend, neighbor, teacher, coach, youth leader, supervisor, etc. Learn more about the common grooming tactics and impacts of grooming here.