You Might Need This Space If...
- You're exhausted from overgiving, overexplaining, and overfunctioning; and you're starting to wonder who you are underneath all of it.
- You're in a relationship that's been fractured by betrayal, and you don't know if what you're feeling is worth fighting for or a sign to let go.
- You keep choosing partners who can't meet you where you are; and you're beginning to suspect the pattern started long before them.
- You're young, smart, and still trying to find your way because your family dynamics don't leave you enough space to figure out who you are.
- You're anxious in ways that don't match the life you've built: catastrophizing, rehearsing conversations, bracing for the worst even when things are fine.
- You've been told you're "too much" or "not enough", and you've started to believe it.
This isn't surface level therapy.
I don't hand you coping strategies and send you on your way. We go to the root (the early environments, the attachment patterns, the beliefs you absorbed about what love is supposed to feel like) and we rebuild from there.
The goal isn't to "fix" you. There's nothing broken. The goal is to help you build a relationship with yourself that's so solid, everything else reorganizes around it.
What it looks like in practice
We slow down the patterns you've been running on autopilot (the overgiving, the people-pleasing, the shrinking, the chasing) and we help you see what's driving them. Not so you can analyze it endlessly, but so you can choose differently.
For couples, we go into the places that feel too dangerous to touch on your own (the betrayal, the withdrawal, the cycles you keep repeating with each other) and we rebuild emotional safety together. I'm trained in Emotionally Focused Therapy and specialize in helping couples heal from betrayal and trauma within the relationship.
For young adults, I think of therapy as a lighthouse helping you see the shore before you crash into it. The relational patterns you're starting to notice? They're not random. The earlier you understand them, the less damage they do.
I Didn't Just Get a Degree & Open a Practice
I completed EMDR training because trauma lives in the body, not just the mind. I trained in Emotionally Focused Therapy because attachment is the foundation of every relationship you'll ever have. I completed Compassionate Inquiry training because the questions we're afraid to ask ourselves are usually the ones that set us free.
And I did all of this because I know what it's like to need a therapist who actually gets it, not theoretically, but from the inside. I've lived through trauma. I've healed from it. And I'm still doing the work.
This is my calling, not my career.
WHERE WE DO OUR DEEPEST WORK
Couples Healing from Betrayal & Relational Trauma
When trust has been broken, the wound isn't just the event, it's the emotional safety that collapsed with it. Using Emotionally Focused Therapy, we rebuild the foundation: honesty, vulnerability, and the ability to turn toward each other instead of away.
Narcissistic Abuse Recovery
The relationship rewired how you see yourself: your worth, your judgment, your reality. You're untangling the confusion, the identity loss, and the shame of missing someone who hurt you. We rebuild your ability to trust your own perception again.
Anxiety & The "Overs"
Overthinking. Overgiving. Overexplaining. Overfunctioning. Catastrophizing. Fantasy. These aren't personality flaws, they're survival strategies. We find out what they're protecting and build something steadier in their place.
Childhood & Sexual Trauma
You learned early that the world wasn't safe, and you adapted by becoming invisible, perfect, or abandoning yourself before anyone else could. Those survival strategies kept you alive then, but they're damaging today. We go gently, but we certainly go to the places that matter.
Young Adults
You're trying to build your own life, but you're still operating from someone else's blueprint for you. You want to pull away, but pulling away feels like betrayal. Staying feels like disappearing. Therapy is the lighthouse. Not just for relationships, but for every decision that matters; so you stop crashing into choices that look like freedom but feel like more of the same.
How We Begin
Step 1
Schedule a Consultation
A brief, no-pressure call to explore what you need and determine if we're a good fit.
Step 2
Begin Regular Sessions
Personalized to where you are; whether that's managing anxiety, processing trauma, navigating betrayal, or rebuilding after toxic love.
Step 3
Experience the Shift
You start responding to your life differently. Your boundaries feel natural. Your decisions feel clearer. Your relationships start reflecting how you actually value yourself.
About Your Therapist
After a 12-year marriage marked by emotional and financial abuse, I fought to rebuild my life and became a therapist so other women wouldn't have to figure it out alone.
I work with women, couples, and young adults who are ready to stop surviving and start building something real. Not by teaching perfection, but by helping you see you were never broken.
If you've been holding everyone else together and you're finally ready to be held, therapy is a good place to start.
Kerrie
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