Online Trauma Therapy in Cambridge, MA, RI, CT, SC, and FL

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Does this sound familiar?

You’ve been holding it all together for so long at work, at home, and in your relationships that you don’t even notice the stress anymore. You wake up already on edge. Your thoughts race. Your chest feels tight. You dread that one text. And you’re bracing for the next thing to go wrong (because it’s only a matter of time).

You’re the one everyone else leans on but no one seems to notice how close you are to shutting down or falling apart.

It’s not just mental anymore. Your body feels it too, the nausea, exhaustion, muscle tension, and panic. Maybe you’ve tried therapy before but it stayed surface-level or made you feel like you had to justify yourself.

What you really need is a space where your system can finally settle. Where you don’t have to be “on.” Where someone really sees what you’re carrying and knows how to help you come back to yourself.

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Deeper work for real, lasting change

This isn’t surface-level talk therapy. Together, we’ll get to the root of what’s keeping you stuck emotionally, physically, and relationally.

Using a mind-body approach grounded in neurobiology and your nervous system, we’ll look at how stress and trauma live in your body, not just your mind. We’ll explore how early experiences shaped your patterns, how your system responds to overwhelm now, and how you can begin to feel safer, more stable, and more like you.

You’ll learn to notice what’s happening inside you without getting swept away. You’ll gain tools to regulate your nervous system, reconnect with your own needs, and create relationships that don’t leave you emotionally drained.

This is deep, healing work that helps you stop over-functioning and over-explaining so you can finally feel at home in your life.

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What you can expect from trauma therapy:

  • Understand how your nervous system responds to emotional overwhelm and learn ways to regulate it

  • Feel more grounded in the face of daily stress

  • Set boundaries without guilt, even in relationships where you’ve always been the caregiver

  • Release perfectionism and pressure to constantly perform or “keep it together”

  • Heal the deeper trauma patterns driving anxiety, panic, or chronic stress

  • Stop over-functioning and start getting real support from the people around you

What trauma can actually look like:

  • Subtle but chronic childhood emotional neglect

  • Being the “emotional adult” growing up

  • Being shamed or punished for having needs

  • Chronic invalidation

  • Medical trauma, such as difficult diagnoses, invasive procedures, or health crises

  • Queer-specific trauma, including rejection or identity erasure

  • Persistent experiences of being unseen, dismissed, or expected to be “the strong one”


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EMDR

We get to the deepest parts of your mind where the earliest wounds live and put you back in control.

IPNB

Understand how relationships, experiences, culture, and society influenced your trauma, and how this knowledge can help you heal.

You deserve to live your life on your terms.

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  • A: Trauma therapy can take weeks, months, or even years. The length of time depends on factors unique to you and your experiences, such as when and how many traumatic events occurred, how much the events impacted you, and your past and current support systems. No matter how long it takes, you deserve to live a life of peace.

  • A: This isn’t The Trauma Game where we compare people’s experiences and whoever’s the winner gets to go to therapy. If whatever you went through is impacting you enough to ask this question then you would benefit from therapy.

  • A: The strongest people I’ve ever met have been in therapy. By going to therapy you’re showing resilience and courage to face your fears and overcome the obstacles that prevent you from living the life you want to have.

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