The past doesn’t stay in the past—it echoes through how you think, love, and respond today.

Whether your childhood looked “fine” from the outside or was marked by chaos and pain, those early experiences shaped your nervous system and sense of self.
I help clients process childhood trauma gently and deeply, integrating the parts that once had to survive so you can finally feel safe to live.

What is Trauma?

You might be carrying childhood trauma if:

  • You were the caretaker or peacemaker in your family

  • You feel guilt or shame for having needs

  • You struggle to express anger or advocate for yourself

  • You feel numb, emotionally shut down, or disconnected from your body

  • You seek validation from emotionally unavailable people

  • You logically “get” your past but still feel stuck

Emotional neglect doesn’t always leave visible scars — but it affects how you love, trust, and relate to yourself. Therapy helps you grieve what you didn’t get and rebuild what was never modeled for you.

How I Help

What therapy looks like for emotional neglect and childhood trauma:

  • We go at your pace — no pressure to tell your whole story before you’re ready

  • We focus on how your early relationships shaped your sense of safety and self

  • We explore the protective strategies you had to develop — and how they show up today

  • We make space for grief, anger, and emotional needs that were never allowed

  • I help you feel with, not just talk about, the parts of you that never got to be held

You don’t need to be “better” to be worthy. You just need a space to be real — and someone to walk with you through it.

Want to hear more? In the video below, I share how I work with childhood trauma and why it’s never “too late” to begin healing.

What is Depth Therapy?

I use a psychodynamic, relational approach rooted in AEDP (Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy) and NARM (Neuro-Affective Relational Model)- both trauma-informed, attachment-based models that help you heal at the core.

That means we don’t just talk about your feelings, we slow down and actually feel them together, in real time.

I pay close attention to how you show up emotionally, relationally, and even right here in the therapy room. Together, we work with the parts of you that learned to shut down, smile through pain, or over-function to stay safe.

If you’ve tried therapy before that felt too polite, too surface-level, or too focused on “fixing,” you’ll notice the difference here. This work goes deeper, helping you understand yourself, build self-trust, and create change that lasts.

 FAQs

  • Emotional neglect is when your caregivers didn’t meet your emotional needs — even if they provided food or shelter. It often leaves invisible wounds, like shame, numbness, or feeling “too much” for other people.

  • Yes. Therapy helps you process what happened (or didn’t happen), understand how it still affects your relationships and self-worth, and begin to feel safe with your own emotions.

  • Common signs include emotional shutdown, chronic people-pleasing, perfectionism, anxiety, low self-worth, or feeling disconnected from your body. You may also struggle with intimacy or conflict in relationships.

  • Not at all. You don’t need a label or a traumatic “event” to deserve healing. If something still hurts, feels stuck, or keeps repeating — that’s enough to start.

Schedule a Free Consult

Let’s see if we’re a good fit!
This is a 10-15 minute phone call where we’ll talk about what you’re looking for, what I offer, and whether it feels aligned to move forward.

 “When you are not fed love on a silver spoon you learn to lick it off knives.”

— Lauren Eden