Women Navigating Estrangement & Reconnection
You grew up in a family where you learned to be the responsible one. The caretaker. Now, you're ready to trust yourself and build healthier relationships with your family.
You're navigating distance or estrangement from a parent or sibling, questioning what healthy connection could look like after years of emotional strain. You deeply value family, yet you feel exhausted by old roles that required you to stay small, manage others' feelings, and ignore your own needs to keep the peace.
My Approach
I offer trauma-informed somatic therapy for women navigating complex family relationships, boundary challenges, and long-standing emotional patterns. We focus on nervous system regulation and embodied awareness so change happens from the inside out—not just through insight, but through lived experience.
You may arrive to therapy feeling conflicted about:
Wanting growth, without cutting people off impulsively
Wanting closeness, yet needing to create boundaries that honor your autonomy
Wanting peace, yet carrying anger and grief that keeps you feeling stuck in old patterns
Wanting to trust your own perspective, yet second-guessing yourself when family pushes back
You may find that redefining connection includes choosing periods of distance or estrangement when emotional abuse or chronic disrespect continues without change. This is not about punishment or avoidance—it’s protecting your nervous system and creating space for discernment and emotional maturity.
From there, we explore what healthy connection can become: maintaining distance, redefining closeness, or exploring repair with intention.
This work may resonate if you:
Are willing to take responsibility for your own growth
Feel stuck in old family roles (caretaker, mediator, peacemaker, scapegoat, parentified child)
Struggle with guilt, shame or fear when setting boundaries
Feel torn between loyalty to your family and loyalty to yourself
Want to feel more grounded, confident, and emotionally independent
You're ready for this work if you're reflective, curious, and willing to actively participate in your healing with presence and honesty.
This work may not be the best fit if you are seeking:
Quick fixes without reflection
Symptom management without nervous system regulation
A space to avoid accountability
Ready to Begin?
If you’re a woman ready to redefine family connection with steadiness, intention, and emotional maturity through trauma-informed somatic therapy—I invite you to schedule a consultation to explore whether this work feels like a good fit.