Women Navigating Connection to Family

I offer trauma-informed somatic therapy for women who grew up in families where they learned to be the responsible one and the emotional caretaker—and are now ready to relate to their families with more agency and self-trust.

Many of the women I work with are navigating distance or estrangement from a parent or sibling, and are questioning what healthy connection could look like after years of emotional strain. You may deeply value family, yet feel exhausted or fed up by old roles that required you to stay small, manage other people’s feelings, and ignore your own needs to keep the peace.

My work offers trauma-informed somatic therapy for women navigating complex family relationships, boundary challenges, and long-standing emotional patterns. In our work together, we focus on nervous system regulation and embodied awareness so that change happens from the inside out—not just through insight, but through lived experience.

Our work moves at a pace that prioritizes safety, accountability, and choice.

Many women arrive to therapy feeling conflicted:

  • Wanting closeness, yet needing to create boundaries that honor your autonomy

  • Wanting peace, yet carrying anger and grief that shapes your reactions and keeps you feeling stuck in the past

  • Wanting growth, without cutting people off impulsively

For some women, 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, but about protecting the nervous system and creating space for agency, discernment, and emotional maturity.

From there, we take an honest look at what healthy connection can become for you—whether that involves maintaining distance, redefining closeness, or, when possible, exploring repair and reconciliation with intention.

My work helps you understand the patterns your body and mind learned—and supports you in choosing new ways of relating with clarity and care.

This work may resonate if you:

  • Feel stuck in old family roles (caretaker, mediator, peacemaker, scapegoat, Parentified child, or the “strong one”)

  • Struggle with guilt, shame or fear when setting boundaries

  • Feel torn between loyalty to your family and loyalty to yourself

  • Are navigating distance or estrangement from a parent, caretaker or sibling

  • Want to relate differently without cutting people off impulsively

  • Are willing to take responsibility for your own growth

  • Want to feel more grounded, confident, and emotionally independent

This work is for women who are reflective, curious, and open to exploring both their family story and their internal responses with presence and honesty.

This work may not be the best fit if you are seeking:

  • Quick fixes without reflection

  • Therapy focused only on symptom management, without nervous system regulation

  • A space to avoid accountability

My work is best suited for women who are ready to actively participate in their own healing and growth.

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.

 

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