PTSD typically comes from a single traumatic event: a car accident, an assault, a disaster. Complex trauma is different. It's what happens when you've experienced repeated, ongoing trauma, usually starting in childhood, within relationships that were supposed to be safe. An unpredictable parent. Emotional neglect. A household where you had to learn to survive instead of just grow up. Complex trauma doesn't always look like trauma from the outside. It looks like anxiety, people pleasing, emotional reactivity, failed relationships, and the nagging feeling that something is just off …even when your life looks fine on paper.

Generational trauma is exactly what it sounds like — patterns of pain, survival, and coping that get passed down from one generation to the next. Not because your parents were bad people, but because they were carrying wounds that were never healed, and they parented from those wounds. The good news? Yes, it can absolutely be healed. And when it is, it doesn't just change your life…it literally changes the trajectory of everyone who comes after you. That's not small work. That's legacy work.

If you find yourself asking that question, there's a good chance it is. Some of the most common signs are things like difficulty trusting people, chronic self-doubt, feeling emotionally numb or easily overwhelmed, patterns of unhealthy relationships, struggling to feel joy even when life is objectively okay, and a persistent sense that you're always waiting for the other shoe to drop. Childhood trauma doesn't always announce itself. Sometimes it just quietly runs the show in the background… until you finally decide to find it and deal with it at the root.

It doesn't look like lying on a couch talking about your feelings for years. Here, we go deeper than that and more efficiently. Sessions are structured, focused, and purposeful. We identify the patterns, beliefs, and body-held responses that formed around your early experiences and we work to actually resolve them… not just talk about them. Depending on what you need, sessions may include IFS-informed parts work, Brainspotting, somatic approaches, and my quantum-informed framework that helps make sense of how your subconscious patterns are shaping your current reality.

Honest answer is… it depends on how long you've been carrying it and how deep the roots go. What I can tell you is that the approach here is designed to create real, lasting change without keeping you in therapy indefinitely. Many clients notice meaningful shifts within the first few months. The goal is never dependency, it's to give you the tools, the insights, and the healing you need to go live your actual life. You didn't come here to be a therapy lifer. Neither did I.

Because knowing better and doing better are two completely different things and that gap lives in your nervous system, not your mind. Insight alone doesn't change patterns. If it did, you'd already be fixed, you're clearly smart enough to see exactly what you're doing. The reason patterns repeat is because they're stored in the body, the subconscious, and the nervous system as survival strategies that formed long before you had the awareness or the choice to do anything differently. Talk therapy addresses the story. Our work together addresses the source.

I don't. Beyond Mainstream Therapy is private pay only. I made that choice intentionally because insurance companies don't get to decide how long your healing takes, what modalities we use, or how deep we go. The women I work with deserve care that isn't being managed by a third party with a financial interest in keeping sessions surface level. My fees are an investment in doing this right, once, at the root.

Yes — I offer virtual sessions throughout the entire state of California. So whether you're in Roseville, Sacramento, San Francisco, San Diego, or anywhere in between, we can work together. Virtual sessions are conducted through a secure, HIPAA-compliant platform and are just as effective as in-person for the deep work we do together.

Especially if you've already tried therapy before. The women who tend to thrive in this work are the ones who've done the traditional therapy route, got some value from it, but still feel like something is missing. Like they've been treating symptoms without ever finding the source. If you've ever left a therapy session thinking "okay but what do I actually DO with that?" — you're in the right place. This work is built for people who are done scratching the surface.

The name says it. Most mainstream therapy is built around symptom management, like helping you cope, regulate, and function better. That's valuable. It's just not the whole picture. Here, we go beyond managing symptoms to actually resolving the patterns at the root. Using a blend of trauma-informed therapy, IFS-informed parts work, Brainspotting, and my own quantum-informed framework, we work with your body, your subconscious, and your nervous system…not just your conscious mind. The goal isn't to help you survive your life better. It's to actually change it.

Brainspotting is a powerful somatic therapy that accesses the deeper parts of the brain where trauma is actually stored, below the level of conscious thought and language. It works by identifying specific eye positions that connect to where unprocessed trauma lives in your nervous system, then creating the conditions for your brain to naturally process and release it. It's not hypnosis. You're fully awake and in control the entire time. It's just a more direct route to where the trauma actually lives than talking about it ever could be. Many clients describe it as the first time they've felt something actually move in their body rather than just understanding it in their head.

The first session is a conversation. We're getting to know each other, and I'm getting to understand what's brought you here, what you've already tried, and what you're hoping to change. I'll ask questions that help us both get clear on what's really going on beneath the surface. You don't have to have it all figured out before you come in. Most people don't. You just have to be willing to show up and be honest. By the end of our first session you'll have a clearer sense of what the work looks like and whether this feels like the right fit. No pressure. The goal is for you to leave feeling seen, understood and hopeful.